Supply Chain Network Range Planning Manager

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Supply Chain Network Range Planning Manager  | A Fresh New Direction 

About The Role

Reporting into the Head of Network & Capacity Planning, the Supply Chain Network Range Planning Manager is responsible for ensuring product flow and range configuration is optimal across the Woolworths Food and EDG supply network. Fundamentally, this role balances strategies, rules and thresholds to deliver availability, cost management and inventory optimisation.

The role has recently evolved and now has three main responsibilities:

1. Leadership:

The Range Planning team consists of network analysts and planners.  The team’s analysts are focused on reviewing continuous improvement opportunities for the ranging and flow across the network using analytical tools that have recently been upgraded, while the planners are critical at managing the planning and execution of range changes resulting from category development across the Food and EDG groups.

2. Managing Product Lifecycle and Planning:

Ensuring that the product life cycle is effectively managed to achieve maximised store service (availability) at the lowest supply chain cost, within the available DC capacity (pick slots). In particular the introduction/ deletion of products to agreed timelines by all stakeholders and continuous improvement to simplify processes.

3. Managing Network Ranging and Flow:

Leading complex detailed analysis in collaboration with Supply Chain and Buying to identify opportunities to reduce the cost of operations and improve product availability that considers inventory holdings, network capability and network utilisation. Further, ensuring the submission of network ranging proposals are accurate with the mechanisms in place to track and monitor impacts to business performance.

About You

WOWpeople are great people. Whether we’re learning new things, seizing the initiative, or winning together our customers are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re the sort of individual who takes accountability and strives to always do the right thing for each other, our communities, our customers, and our business then we ought to connect.

To be successful you will demonstrate excellent influencing, analytical and leadership experience together with previous experience  in a similar role. You will also offer the following skills and experience, which when put into practice, will be key to success in this critical role.

• Leading teams of at least 5 people in a large retail  business and preferably with demonstrated ability in critical thinking and data analysis.

• Demonstrated ability in leading analytical teams to build data models for solving complex problems and aid decision making supported by advanced Excel competency

• Ability to succinctly translate findings from extensive analysis and propose clear recommendations to a range of stakeholders  

• Experience in Category Management and/or Supply Chain Planning

• Proven ability to performance manage team members to achieve targets and KPIs, with the ability to deliver high performing teams

Desirable

• Experience with Llamasoft or similar tool

• Organisation Change Management

• Strong Financial and Business Acumen, with a focus on fact based decision making

• Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and meet deadlines

• Knowledge and understanding of Woolworth’s Group Supply Chain

• Business Process and Systems

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