Item Placement Team Lead

2 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Circana South Africa (Pty) Ltd Full time

**Item Placement Team Leader**

**Let’s be unstoppable together**

**What will you be doing?**

Based in South Africa, you will lead the Circana UK Item Placement team. Your team maintains the product dimension of the custom client databases. In close collaboration with UK Client Service and several other operational departments, you have a shared responsibility for delivering the client database on time and correct.

The work involves impeccable planning, active communication and the execution of all item placement tasks on time and to the quality standard as defined in contract/SLA. You need to demonstrate that you have strong project management, systemic thinking and excellent problem-solving abilities and have demonstrated sound mentorship and leadership capabilities.

**Responsibilities**:

- To take full accountability for all Item Placement process areas, leading the teams to achieve company, department, team and personal objectives.
- To be responsible for ensuring the quality and integrity of the Client item dimensions, existing and new BAU & Build processes and deliverables.
- To be accountable for capacity and workload planning, ensuring that all deliverables are provided to schedule and to the agreed quality levels as defined in the SLA or Project Plan.
- To manage and participate in projects to design and implement new products, services and processes.
- Effective scoping of client’s product dimension architecture requirements and ensure best practice integration into the Circana item dictionary and/or custom client databases.
- To be responsible for the flawless execution of client expansion/integration projects on time and budget ensuring adherence to specified best practice frameworks.
- To design and monitor metrics to check the quality of deliverables and output vs plan and implement process improvements.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
- Maintaining strong internal cross-departmental relationships with local and UK colleagues.
- Act as the SPOC for other business functions providing input to client proposals & meetings as appropriate.
- Continuously strive to increase the efficiency, quality and cost of services delivered, proactively identifying opportunities to optimise across all item placement processes.
- Set stretching operational targets which will enable the company to meet its EBITDA targets and ensure performance is reviewed on a monthly basis.
- Responsible for the recruitment, training and development of personnel, ensuring that all staff have effective development plans which are regularly reviewed and evaluated
- To support the Department leader with the management of the department and implementation of strategic initiatives, cost management, recruitment, etc.

**Measures of Success**
- Demonstrate strong dimension architecture, project management and process improvement skills
- Ensure satisfied clients with consistent, on-time, high-quality BAU, implementation & change delivery.
- Able to gain support, including time and resources, towards solving client satisfaction and delivery issues
- Develop and/or adopt best practices, implementation & change frameworks for client setups and CCR management.
- Effective use of systems for managing BAU, Initiatives and teams, using data driven decision-making based on KPI reporting.
- Develop people to prosper in their careers at Circana and beyond through exposure to new skills and challenges
- Works to remove barriers to collaboration while balancing the interests of multiple stakeholders
- Builds trust with local & global colleagues by having long-term view working relationships

**Requirements**:

- A highly self-motivated, accountable and committed people leader and coach with the ability to engender a high-performance culture.
- Graduate calibre with 5+ work experience in similar role.
- 2+ years management experience in either Operations or Client Service functions.
- Experience in project management skills and managing complex and conflicting client requirements.
- Track record of leading teams and the ability to foster strong working relationships and influence across teams and departments.
- Continuous improvement experience e.g., automation, process improvement, etc.

**Circana Behaviors**

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

- Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions
- Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action
- Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices
- Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers
- Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement
- Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in rela

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