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Value Delivery Category Lead
4 weeks ago
**Listing reference**: woolw_000763**Listing status**: Online-
**Position summary**
**Industry**:FMCG & Supply Management
- **Job category**:Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain**Location**:Cape Town
- **Contract**:Temporary**Remuneration**:Market Related
- **EE position**:No**Introduction**Job description**
- Leverage Value Delivery processes, tools, insights, crossflow opportunities and buying experience to lead category and functional teams to surface Value
- Deliver opportunities within their categories.- Provide expertise, support and best practise guidance to category team with the management of cost of goods data and open book costing methodologies.
- Create, implement and lead Value Chain optimisation strategies and ways of working with due regard to sustainability, risk and ethical purchasing.
- Providing best practise support and coaching to category matrix and functional teams in the execution and anchoring stages of the value delivery process.
- Coach buyers to lead the progression of opportunities through the Value Delivery process in order to challenge the status quo, optimally extract benefits, ensure
- benefits extracted are delivered as intended and sustained for investment in Price.- Coach and equip category and functional teams to onboard, motivate and successfully integrate suppliers into the Foods Value Delivery Journey. (Strategy
- and ways of working - contracting, people, culture, data, systems, tools and process)- Leverage and execute our Value Chain Partners’ expertise, experience, toolsets and methodologies, building on these to develop our Woolworths Foods Value
- Delivery Capability.- Work closely with Pricing, Category and Functional teams to build and track commercial value cases, linked to category KPIs and strategy, in support of Value
- Delivery initiatives.- Build capabilities of our category matrix and functional teams to leverage the Value Delivery ecosystem.
- Advance the development of Value Delivery capabilities within our Foods Business, building this critical strategic capability to position us for sustainable future
- growth.- Develop and sustain mutually beneficial stakeholder relationships.
- Accountable for progressing, and reporting on, delivery against a pipeline of value opportunities proactively surfacing risks for mitigation.
- Analyse category, service, material and supplier costs to inform value delivery opportunities.
- Manage, coach, develop and motivate the category matrix and functional teams to ensure that Value Delivery activities are prioritised to deliver on the Foods
- Value Delivery targets.**Minimum requirements**
- In-depth experience in and knowledge / understanding of the Foods and Value Delivery Strategy
- Strong engagement skills, proven negotiator and influencer
- Knowledge and understanding of value chain concepts, processes, systems and best practices
- Understanding of Foods FMCG retail business processes and procurement principles ito generating sales, margin management, cost saving levers.
- Demonstrated commercial acumen and financial management skills
- Project leadership skills with ability to deliver to the required standards and timelines
- Ability to shape creative, tactical and practical solutions to complex problems.
- Strong integrator, collaborator with the ability to flex between leading teams, managing others and working as a contributor within a matrix structure.
- Flexibility with ability to work productively under stress
- Passionate Foodie, with a solid understanding of the Woolies’ Values
**Minimum qualifications & experience**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Sciences or equivalent educational qualification
- Minimum of 5 years Retail / Buying / Supply Chain/ Value Chain Optimisation experience within a Foods FMCG business
- Proven experience in managing a Foods/FMCG category, leveraging commercial levers to sustainably grow a category (i.e. market share, sales growth, margin, ROS, COGS, availability)
- Proven raw materials sourcing and supplier management experience to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes for both Woolworths Foods and our suppliers optimal
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