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Graduate X 3
Kenilworth – Cape Town X2
Kensington – Gauteng
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!Exciting Opportunity for Graduates at Pick n Pay!
Are you a recent graduate looking to kickstart your career journey in Retail
Look no further! Pick n Pay is thrilled to announce our exclusive 24-month graduate program, offering invaluable hands-on experience and professional development opportunities.
What we offer:
A comprehensive 24-month program designed to nurture your skills and expertise in your chosen field.
Fully focused on your growth and development
A stipend to cover traveling expenses.
Exposure to industry-leading mentors and professionals who are passionate about helping you succeed.
Proficiency in relevant software (MS Office Suite)
Unemployed candidates ready to embark on an exciting career adventure with Pick n Pay
South African citizen with valid ID documentation
Ability to travel to our Kenilworth/Kensington Office Park for the duration of the program.
No experience required.
Minimum Requirement as follows:
Human Resources : Relevant HR Degree
IT : Information Systems/Technology related degree
Corporate Finance: Financial Management Degree
Clothing: Retail Management related Degree/ Category Management / Clothing related (Fashion Design, Garment Technologist) Degree
Marketing: Graphic Design/Marketing/ Digital Marketing Degree
Closing Date: 12 April 2024
Buyers Assistant
Assist the buyer in compiling and executing the category plans in line with the strategy, objectives and category group guidelines on format/margin and assortment strategies. Provide day to day administrative support to optimize the performance (i.e. sales and cash margins) of the categories by being customer focused.
- Preferably University degree
- 3 Years Retail experience
- Proficiency in SAP and BW, MS Outlook and MS Word
- Good Excel skills
- To be able to collate and pull adhoc statistical and exception reports on request
- To analyse reports, investigate anomalies and take appropriate action
- Prepare vendor take-on forms and check all supporting documents
- To attend buyer’s negotiations with suppliers
- Monitor and manage execution of buying contracts and SLA’s to the DC’s
- To identify and verify PnP article data with external systems ensuring master data alignment
- To review and communicate aged and exit stock reports for buyer
- To be able to interact with relevant stakeholders on sales uplift information (indicator and stock management)
- To be able to investigate all price queries for the buyer
- To ensure all product life cycle activities are executed successfully
- Monitor performance of newly listed products and inform buyer
- Provide support to customer care teams
- To generate and analyse exception reports to ensure rebate target achieved
- Request creation of Article through the Electronic article take-on
- Maintain emergency pricing
Competencies
- Good communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Good numerical reasoning
- Organised, methodical and structured
- Providing service excellence to internal and external customers
- Ability to plan and co-ordinate a task/job realistically
- Task commitment and goal directed
- Attention to detail
- Be able to work under pressure, sense of urgency
CLOSING DATE:18 APRIL 2024
Digital Transformation Analyst
The Digital Transformation analyst (Digital analyst), reporting to the Digital Transformation Lead, will be responsible for supporting and delivering the streamlining and automation of the reporting landscape across the Pick n Pay Group. The Digital Analyst is responsible for driving digital transformations within reporting, planning, and forecasting, working closely with the Group’s IT teams as well as core business functions.
This role will help to implement a new and ambitious digital roadmap within the organization through the delivery of a strategic digital programme of change, with scope to make positive changes to our processes and ways of working.
- Finance related discipline / CA (SA), with IT / computer science advantageous
- 1-3 years post-qualification experience and proven track record in the implementation of digitisation initiatives and streamlining
- Strong communication skills (written & verbal) and ability to convey complex technical concepts in a simple and understandable manner
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills – must have the ability to manage and influence teams, even when they do not report to him / her, conflict resolution skills, collaboration
- Highly motivated, results orientated and self-directed individual
- Ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
- Process improvement
- Creativity and innovation
- Technology knowledge
- Business acumen
- Retail industry knowledge
- Drive digital transformation initiatives across the organization, leveraging technology to enhance business strategy and processes
- Identifying opportunities for improvement, building cases for implementation, adopting best-practice, and ensuring alignment across the organization
- Digitization of management reports, planning and forecasting processes and the underlying processes supporting these functions
- Ability to translate and document the digital needs of the business
- Create structured end-to-end roadmaps for implementation, including milestones and dependencies, and ensure cohesive stakeholder management across the business
- Identifying and overseeing the implementation of digital tools and platforms including the overall change management process of communication, adoption and support of these new technologies
- Manage the governance of the finance master data hierarchies (profit center and general ledger), access control, system packages
- Perform impact analysis on reports for master data changes, testing and implementing reports
- Drive the alignment of finance data definitions and data sets to be agreed with internal stakeholders (example, sales, gross margin)
- Communication complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, facilitating innovation and transformation across the organisation
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement.
- Keep abreast of new trends and best practice
COMPETENCIES:
- Problem solving and analytical skills
- Data analysis and interpretation i.e., the ability to collect, analyze and interpret financial data
- Strong understanding of financial systems and reporting tools
CLOSING DATE: 19 APRIL 2024
Supply Chain Planner X2
ffectively plan for and execute the flow of stock through the value chain, in the most cost-effective way, in order to achieve sales growth, availability, waste, working capital and reducing distribution costs. Integrate with cross functional stakeholders to understand strategies and targets and translate this into qualitative forecasts, sales plans and vendor orders.
BCom Logistics/Degree in Quantitative Analytics/Operational.
Research/Industrial Engineering/Applied Mathematics (RPL).
SQL (Structured Query Language), Power BI and Access advantageous.
1 year Retail, Supply Chain or Planning experience.
Competencies:
Analysis
Conceptual Thinking
Data Accuracy & Attention to Detail
Judgement & Decision Making
Drive
Flexibility
Positive, willing attitude
Networking/Liaison
Organizational Awareness
Influencing
Verbal & Written Communication
Business Insights
Environmental Scanning
Prioritizing Tasks
Monitoring
Sales Plan
Create sales plan:
Create weekly sales plans for assigned categories using the module document and Standardized T-4 planning process.
Consolidate all inputs required to plan for promotions, cannibalization, events, seasonal/weather/price changes, and plan accordingly.
Use annualization trend reports to understand previous year sales base compared to current year and identify trade opportunities where there are gaps.
Use standardized planning and reporting tools for accurate sales planning and execution.
Understanding the business sales plans and strategy and base your category forecast on these plans.
Plan for upcoming promotions by extracting upcoming promotional information from the Adonte tool and adhering to the relevant T – 5 Promotional planning processes.
Create a sales and execution plan for new article and seasonal launches.
Plan for store specific nuances i.e. changing trends, revamps, new stores and for store specific events communicated by the Store Execution Team
Follow the DILO & Rhythm document as set and communicated by your line manager.
Incorporate historical forecast accuracy into future planning process and numbers to drive more accurate sales planning and forecasting.
Liaise with business on the sales plan:
Follow a set weekly rhythm with commercial teams to understand sales strategies and agree on forecast values at T-3
Share weekly sales plan with divisional teams and distribute agreed sales forecast numbers at T-2.
Escalate significant differences between sales targets, commercial sales plan and the retail sales forecast.
Operational Execution
Sales Plan Execution:
Load forecast DIFs in SAP to ensure the system forecast reflects your category sales plan and promotional forecast.
Follow processes and methods communicated by line management to ensure all forecast uploads are accurate.
Ensure replenishment parameters are set correctly to reflect the sales plan and forecast accurately.
Revise min display rules on a regular basis to ensure optimized min display settings.
Ensure in-week forecast profiles are set correctly to accurately reflect in-week sales demand of stores and articles.
Ensure that shelf life is set correctly in SAP for lines linked to assigned category.
Ensure replenishment master data fields are set correctly for accurate and correct execution of system replenishment.
T-Action and Monitoring:
Make use of available standardized reports and tools for daily execution and monitoring of orders and sales plans.
Monitor orders daily to ensure order trends reflect sales plan and in-week forecast distribution.
Track sales, waste, working capital and availability KPIs daily to ensure sales plans are executed correctly.
Monitor sales vs forecast and adjust sales plans accordingly to ensure forecast and replenishment parameters reflect customer demand.
Work through daily and weekly KPI exceptions (available on the story board report for fresh categories) and take action as per guidance provided by your line manager.
Highlight and escalate any KPI or operational risks identified and work with your line manager to resolve identified issues.
Understand root cause on high returns and implement solutions that will proactively reduce/avoid returns.
Execute New article and/or seasonal launches in adherence with the launch process.
Manage DC stock holding on bulk lines and take responsibility for the ordering process and maintaining target stock levels in all DC’s.
Execute the ordering of imports stock according to the plan set by line management.
Execute end to end promo planning process, by engaging with stakeholders and adhering to the T-5 promotional process.
Analyse the New & Revamp store report and take action on poor availability lines.
Resolve specific availability, sales growth or waste issues escalated by regions or the Store Execution Team (SET).
Execute the Own-brand strategy set by line management.
Revise previous week:
Revise previous week performance and incorporate into planning processes for current and upcoming weeks.
Report on any post promo overstocks and escalate articles and stores requiring further action to avoid waste.
Make use of standardized reports to tools to understand the root cause of low availability and implement solutions to proactively reduce/avoid out of stocks. Escalate root causes that is not within the control of the supply chain planning department.
Make use of standardized reports to tools to understand the root cause of waste and implement solutions to proactively reduce/avoid excessive waste. Escalate root causes that is not within the control of the supply chain planning department.
Escalate store stock accuracy issues to line management.
Category Profitability:
Provide input on promo & pricing strategies based on category performance and annualization.
Provide input on range based on sales, waste and profitability.
Support maximized deal price purchases by ordering more stock for promo lines during the deal price period. Only for lines where applicable
Identify opportunities to increase category profitability by using a profit levers tool or something similar.
Support Vendor Growth Hurdles and strategic Buy-ins (Category Profitability) by executing the plan provided by the planning line manager.
Understand the elements that contribute to improved category GP and work with commercial teams to achieve set targets.
Work with commercial and store teams to plan for the effective ordering and execution of service counter/in-store departments.
Work with commercial and logistics teams to implement ways of work that will drive increased franchisee buy-in participation.
Stakeholder Engagement
Build & maintain good working relationship with all stakeholders.
Internal Stakeholders:
Collaborate with required internal stakeholders to create accurate and realistic sales plans that reflect business, category and promotional strategies.
Follow the commercial integration rhythm as set by your line manager.
Communicate sales plans to the SCP DC volume management team to ensure accurate DC volume planning and execution.
Work closely with the technical team to ensure the accurate maintenance of shelf life in SAP. Ensure all quality related issues are incorporated into sales plans.
Communicate with the SET on store specific issues and accompany them on store visits – 1 per quarter.
Work with New Product Development teams to ensure the timeous execution of new product launches.
External Stakeholders:
Share promotional forecast with vendors as set out in the T-4 promo planning process.
Work with vendors and commercial to understand the root cause of poor strike rate and work on solutions to proactively avoid strike rate issues.
Liaise with vendors following a formalized Vendor Collaboration process. Act as vendor champion as and when required.
Self-Management and Teamwork
Contribute to a positive, constructive working environment.
Share insights with peers on improved ways of work and utilization of reports, tools and processes.
Ensure effective (clear and concise) communication with line manager, peers and stakeholders.
Calm self and others during stressful times and keep a positive attitude.
Maintain positive working relationships with team members by building trust and treating them with respect.
Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management.
Contribute to an encouraging and motivating working environment.
Adhere to Pick n Pay values.
Value Chain Costs:
Have a good understanding of value chain cost and income components and the role planning plays to influence these levers.
Ensure order patterns of assigned categories conform to the required in-week order distribution set for each DC.
Identify and escalate inefficient pack sizes.
Implement mixed lugs as and when required.
Provide input in vendor-specific projects & improvements that contribute to value chain efficiencies.
Execute vendor collaboration and efficiency plans as set out by the planning manager.
Execute operational plans communicated by line manager to maximize DC Margin.
Assist with the centralization of vendors into PnP DCs.
All the best with your applications.
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