- South Africa
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Logistics
- Reference: 604
Vacancy Details
Employer: Senwes
Hinterland brings you retail experience at 35 different branches, in four provinces under the Hinterland trademark. Be part of making a difference by rediscover what matters.
Description:
Purpose of the Job
Manage category performance in order to maximize sales and profits while enhancing product value and customer experience, through focusing on forecasting, analysis, assortment management, promotion planning and assist in maintaining merchandise principles
Responsibilities:
Inventory Planning & Management
- Inventory focused analysis to help drive sales and optimize inventory (e.g. seasonality, generating forecast for new products, analysis of over-stocked lines)
- Cost benefit analysis on bulk/volume purchases
- Annalise and action stock levels by store and category or department to ensure sufficient stock availability at branches.
- Annalise and action stock holdings to ensure minimum over/under stock situations and never out of stock situations on Top Sellers
- Annalise and action stock ageing and reduce provisions on inventory
- Annalise and action discontinued stock to optimise stock holding
Product development & vendor management
- Maintain ranges through annual range review ensuring development of complete ranges and phasing out of non-performing stock
- Analyse store and product clustering by means of gap analysis and range reviews
- Investigate new listings and make recommendations
- Develop knowledge of products and product ranges
- Staying well abreast of key inventory related information and effective preparation for meetings with key stakeholders
Optimize marketing and merchandizing
- Assist in maximising visibility and return on investment through integrative marketing plans/ campaigns.
- Assist in analysing sales trends and buying habits in order to develop a category and marketing strategy (EDLP, KVI etc.)
- Assist stores/ merchandising team in maintaining high standard visual merchandise placement through providing Planograms
- Assist in marketing and roll out plans for new shop openings and events.
Administration
- Monthly clean up and maintenance of master data
- Provide reports and requested information to management as needed.
- Action the following stock reports:
- o PD/V1 Material per month se cat with SOH -0 (Maintain V1 levels with SOH = 0 below 3%, by branch and category)
- SOH=0 and below ROP with no outstanding order
- MC.9 (Monitor and analyze excessive growth/ decline in stock levels)
Requirements:
Requirements:
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- 3 – 5 years’ experience in inventory management
We are committed to transformation through the appointment of persons from designated groups and potential candidates from these groups will enjoy preference. Kindly note that a consumer credit record will be requested in respect of all appointments which involve dealing with cash or finances. Should we not have contacted you within six weeks of the closing date, you may assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
Closing date 14/11/2024
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About Senwes
Senwes | Reimagining Agriculture
At Senwes, we blend our rich heritage with cutting-edge technology to drive economic and rural regeneration - we continuously reimagine our future to enable us to expertly assist our clients, shareholders, business partners, staff and communities of impact in reimagining theirs.
Senwes operates as a group of companies across several South African provinces and has a geographic footprint in East Germany. In SA, our operations span the North West, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and Western Cape provinces.
We believe in taking responsibility for making things happen rather than explaining why it can’t be done. We are more than just an agri-business; we are community builders and believe in the power of our diverse and talented workforce to shape the future of agriculture.
Join us on this exciting journey and be part of a team that values teamwork, delivers excellence, builds strong relationships, and is driven by results
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