Assortment Planner: Produce

4 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa Woolworths Full time

Advert reference: woolw_000633
Advert status: Online
- **Position Summary**

**Industry**:FMCG & Supply Management

**Job category**:Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain

**Location**:Cape Town

**Contract**:Permanent

**Remuneration**:Market related

**Introduction**

Translate the category strategy and create an optimal assortment based on customer demand to deliver improved customer satisfaction and optimised profit.

**Job description**
- Manage the day-to-day Assortment Process to ensure the category strategy is reflected in the assortments per role of store.
- Be a key contributor to the end-to-end range review process.
- Integrate with Buyer to understand the impact of the ILC.
- Provide input into the clustering recommendations for the category (ies) and make recommendations to the relevant stakeholders.
- Understand the key strategic drivers for the category and turn them into effective and profitable assortment tactics.
- Optimise the input parameters that drive AO as required which includes the types and accuracy standards of data required to allow AO to run effectively.
- Advise category team members on the best way to achieve the best results from the assortment optimisation system.
- Conduct Impact Assessments
- Use colleagues in the centre of excellence to stay abreast of leading assortment thinking and techniques.
- Attend all relevant training to ensure that new ways of assortment planning are incorporated into your ways of working.

**Minimum requirements**
- Minimum of 3-5 years of relevant Retail / FMCG experience
- Relevant tertiary degree or qualification
- Great understanding of the merchandising industry and good customer knowledge
- Strategic and analytical thinking
- Strong commercial acumen and credibility
- Strong assortment planning skills with high ability to integrate
- Project management and process thinking skills
- Ability to influence others, build and sustain relationships across functional teams
- Excellent interpersonal and networking skills
- Strong Retail / Commercial experience, preferable in Foods
- Previous retail management experience in the fields of assortment, range and merchandising with a large global retailer (Supermarket retail experience preferred)
- Good buying, planning or assortment planning experience (at least 3 years) within foods retailing
- Understanding and analysis of current & future techniques and trends
- Trend Analysis, the ability to analysis and review of past / historical information
- Some knowledge and understanding of consumer shopping habits; competitor activity and market players in the retail sector; consumer demographics
- The ability to analyse, interpret and optimize KPI's relevant to assortment plans
- Range & Catalogue Management, the understanding of range construction, analysis and optimizing performance
- Understand themselves and the impact they have on the people they interact with and the organisation culture and
- Adjust their behaviour accordingly.
- Plays a leading role in driving sustainable transformational initiatives at a BU level and/or Group level, and
- Is recognised by the leadership, peers and reports as competent and can hold their own with colleagues in their field.
- Builds strong networks and strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and
- Engages and connects people to enable delivery of BU strategy and operating plan.
- Are consistent in their decision making and owns the consequences thereof due to strong business understanding and commercial knowledge.
- Demonstrates attention to detail and reacts to commercial issues within their BU.

**Woolworths is an equal employment opportunity company that is committed to inclusion and diversity

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