Category Procurement Manager Generalist
4 weeks ago
Key performance areas, inter alia, include:
- Category Management grow each category, report thereon, manage Product Suppliers, maintain Category Product Master (there is a very sophisticated IT software)
- Deliver Category Growth Targets & Incentives manage Supplier growth targets & Supplier performance
- Supplier Maintenance negotiate pricing, build & improve relationships, regular reviews with Suppliers & assist them with Branch concerns, facilitate buying, negotiate promotional deals, analyse product sales in volume & value, monitor competitive pricing
- Food Safety ensure all Suppliers comply with regulations & assist in improving their Scorecard
- Manufacturing identify further manufacturing opportunities
- Stock Forecasting & Distribution Models using sophisticated Excel Spreadsheets, actively build models & assist Branches with holding Model stocks
- Advertising and Marketing actively manage each Suppliers annual advertising spend & effectiveness, critically analyse all promotions, formulate advertising & marketing plans with Suppliers
- National Travel travel nationally to the Regions & Branches periodically to train, perform full Category review and report on findings, bring Buying & Sales Teams together
- Imports monitor category imports, liaise & negotiate with overseas Suppliers where applicable, look for overseas food opportunities for suitable products.
**Requirements**:
- Post matric Procurement qualification and with requisite either Protein or Generalist Food Procurement experience which is a prerequisite to be considered for either of these vacancies
- Able to cultivate, build & maintain superior interpersonal relationships with various levels and types of people
- Able to adapt to a highly entrepreneurial, very fast paced trading environment in a proactive, assertive yet diplomatic business culture and be exceptionally "hands-on"
- Able to work both independently and in a team (there are no subordinates) and with mutual concern for other members in the team
- Vibrant, outgoing, deadline driven and willing to go the extra mile.
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