POSITION SUMMARY

Industry: FMCG & Supply Management
Job category: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain
Location: Cape Town
Contract: Permanent
Remuneration: market related
EE position: Yes

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job objectives

• To effectively develop and achieve replenishment plans based on establishing and maintaining business rules for lead times, safety stock, network, etc. and setting all replenishment parameters
• To effectively manage and monitor budgets, receipt and inventory flow
• To effectively validate monthly forecast and manage open to buy budget
• To achieve Infill and DC Availability metrics
• To work with vendors and the DC on capacity planning in order to manage cost to serve
• To provide forward visibility into all replenishment and ordering requirements both DC and store to minimize stock-outs and/or inventory overruns
• To drive maintaining the distribution network, safety stock levels, and improving customer service by making the product available to meet the demands throughout the distribution network
• To review and act on out of stocks, anticipated out of stocks and low stocks
• To work with Demand Planners to create a match between supply and demand
• To review causal data and determine reasons for inventory overages, underage’s, excess, and aged stock and resolve with relevant stakeholder
• To review promotional activities while in-flight to determine opportunities
• To review and approve purchase orders and place manual purchase orders as necessary
• To ensure sufficient knowledge of all inventory locations and be able to source products from alternate locations to meet demand (deployment)
• To ensure continuous supplier reviews based on on-time and in full and engage to ensure corrective measures are taken
• To collaborate with buyers, demand planners, suppliers, stores, warehousing, and transportation on inventory flow opportunities to drive cost savings and improved stock efficiency
• To ensure effective people management and development

JOB RELATED KNOWLEDGE

Essential

• Industry insight related to supply chain management, inventory management and vendor relationship management.
• FMCG, Supply Chain and Logistics
• Commercial acumen – external focus
• Working knowledge and ability to adjust and manage distribution networks, safety stock levels, replenishment parameters and customer service level needs.

• Requires knowledge on S&OP (Sales and Operations Planning) and consensus processes.

  Desirable:

• Understanding of customer needs and wants, trends, competitive environment and market share

• Deep understanding of the consistent management and planning of the supplier base performance metrics, promotional planning cycle, product lifecycle, supply chain optimization for their products, business analysis and reporting
• Financial planning models and methodologies

JOB RELATED SKILLS

Essential:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, to build relationships and drive consensus and collaboration across functional groups
• Forecasting consumer trends and buying habits 9 – 24 months in the future
• Presentation skills with focus being on oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency on MS Office Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point
• Advanced Microsoft Excel
• Problem solving
• Strong negotiating and influencing skills
• Analytics required to enable above
• People management and development

Desirable

• Merchant math capability (variance to last year, percent of total, turn, Open-to-Buy etc.)
• business and financial analysis skills and knowledge to solve business problems and influence decision making
• Business math acumen and analysis to comprehend financial information and reporting to make business decisions

JOB EXPERIENCE

Essential:

• 5-7 years re-buying experience and/or inventory analysis
• Experience with retail buying or supply chain

Desirable:

• Experience with Demand Planning or Supply Planning software preferred
• Experience in managing and leading teams preferred

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Math, Logistics, Supply Chain

Please refer the Job description for details