Job Summary
Duties & Responsibilities
Strategic Planning
- Participate and influence department strategy
- Monitor and track against the plan
- Develop recommendations and subsequent action plans to enable the delivery of the departmental strategy
- Day to day interaction with team members to deliver strategy
- Build and develop effective relationships with relevant stakeholders to highlight and determine best solution to overcome challenges to continuously improve
- Contribute to delivering strategic plans with suppliers by liaising regularly on trend changes and tactical forecasting
- Ensuring procurement strategy on raw material and dry stock support forecasts
- Proactive and regular communication with key stakeholders
Operational Planning
- Understand and optimise supply chain and systems
- Understand internal and external factors which impact on demand and ensure these are reflected in forecasts
- Communicate with internal and external stakeholder to maximise trade
- Identify challenges, trends and opportunities
- Maintain Data and Systems
- Collate Information and Assumptions
- Develop and Maintain the Forecast
- Forecasting to align with prospective orders
- Reach Consensus through Alignment
- Share and Publish the Forecast
- Track and Manage Demand
Continuous improvement
- Analysis of historical and current performance
- Understand market / product trends as well as department focus that could impact demand
- Liaise with suppliers with regards to long term tactical plans
- Implementation and review against long term tactical plans
People Management
- Conduct workforce planning to ensure the team is suitably staffed to meet functional objectives taking into account various internal and external factors
- Implement, drive and manage all people development initiatives linked to the HR Strategy including performance management, succession planning, talent management etc. to ensure the team’s performance meets the required standards
- Set medium to long term goals and objectives for the relevant area of control and monitor progress against these
- Plan, organise, lead and control subordinate's activities to ensure functional objectives are met or exceeded
- Assure stable employee relations by managing conflict and creating a positive and performing working environment
Teamwork / Staff Engagement
- Living the Cavalier values in an individual and team capacity aimed at building a cohesive working environment
- Actively participate in all people development initiatives linked to the HR Strategy including but not limited to: performance management; succession planning; talent management; change, process optimisation and engagement initiatives etc. to ensure the team’s performance meets the required standards
- Build, support and maintain healthy diverse internal (peers / team members / managers) as well as external (service providers etc.) relationships and implement remedial actions when required to ensure achievement of organisational goals
- Provide relevant and specialised technical support, where required, to peers and colleagues to ensure the achievement of objectives
Desired Experience & Qualification
- B Bus. Sc / B Com or equivalent tertiary qualification in Supply Chain
- Minimum years of Experience required 5 + years
- Supply Chain FMCG / Food / Agri
- Sales and Operations Planning
- Financial or economic background
- Supply Chain
- Leadership skills
- Lateral thinker
- Drive for improvement and efficiency
- Negotiation skills
- Driver’s License
People Dimension
15 Soveriegn drive, Irene. Route 21
2-10
Recruiter
About
PEOPLE DIMENSION believes that every successful Brand is shaped by Great People who deliver on the
promise they make.
PEOPLE DIMENSION is a Recruitment agency committed to seek greatness in the South African job market.
Skills attraction is our passion and building trusted partnerships with both our clients and applicants our
priority.
PEOPLE DIMENSION prides us on providing a personalized and delivery-focused recruitment function
across all industries.
Our Services include both permanent and contract placements, in the following specialist areas;
Information Technology
Engineering
Finance
Office Support
Insurance
Marketing & Sales
A clear understanding of our clients’ business and corporate culture is the starting point of every successful
placement we make.
Our extensive industry knowledge and more than 11 year presence within the recruitment industry,
enables us to find and introduce South Africa’s top talent to our clients. We also believe in continuous
follow up on the progress of the candidate we have placed as well as the level of both our client’s and
candidate’s satisfaction with our service.
PEOPLE DIMENSION adheres to the APSO Constitution and Code of Ethics and is therefore very serious in
complying with the requirements of South Africa’s Labour legislation. We are also a Level 4 BEE
Contributor.
Integrity and Service excellence is our promise to you.
We invite you to choose PEOPLE DIMENSION as your recruitment partner.
