Job Description: Responsibilities & Requirements
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To facilitate the delivery of the correct stock level timeously at site/article level with time spend around 60% Analytics and 40% Demand planning. Levels of operational involvement varies between different areas within the Planning team.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Analyses flow of stock to spot trends, make deductions and generate a solution
- Source, analyze, and integrate multiple data sources, processes, and information in problem-solving and conclusion generation
- Highlights incomplete setup to relevant stakeholders
- Sets and maintains forecast for new sites and vendors across articles – New articles delivered to sites
- Ensures new site/article have correct order proposals
- Ensures order proposal reflects special events' impact
- Monitors order to forecast plan and amends where needs be
- Manages exceptions and approves site order
- Ensures all site order proposals are converted
- Submits orders
- Captures allocations – Promotional stock available
- Analyses stock and other reports
- Liaises with sites to address anomalies
- Create orders against price increases
- Replaces orders for OOS
- Identifies on going / continuous non achievement of KPI's by sites
- Creates allocations for confirmed dormant stock
- Creates allocations for stock ( including promotions ) per agreed rule and Allocation timeous and supports plan template
- Communicates volumes
- Monitors strike rates
- Checks stock levels during promotion
- Orders stock
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Minimum Requirements
- BCOM Degree is advantageous
- SAP experience is advantageous
- 2–3 years of retail experience
- 1-2 years relevant planning experience
- Strong Analytical and Advanced Excel skills
Competencies
- Emotional intelligence
- Analytical Thinking
- Business Mindedness
- Communication at all levels
- Conceptual Thinking
- Controls Quality & Standards
- Accountable – take ownership of the area
- Flexible/adaptable- quick to change
- Planning and organizing skills
- Time management
- Systems centric
- Passion for Retail
- Resilience - Work in unstructured, fast paced environment
- Judgement