Woolworths PRODUCT DEVELOPER: MEAT Vacancies 2023 In Cape Town, Western Cape
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Woolworths PRODUCT DEVELOPER: MEAT Jobs Details Here:
Department Name ⇒ Woolworths
Position Name ⇒ PRODUCT DEVELOPER: MEAT
Job Location ⇒ Cape Town, Western Cape
Official Website ⇒ https://careers.woolworths.co.za/
Woolworths PRODUCT DEVELOPER: MEAT Job Description:
Position Summary
Introduction
To interpret customer needs and lifestyle trends to deliver a product development plan that delivers leading innovation, maximises core growth, ensures consistent high quality, value for money and exceeds our customer’s expectations, whilst contributing to the respective category’s overall profitability
Job description
- Give input to and implement category and supplier strategies
- Identify, analyse and interpret lifestyle, retail and food trends to ensure that the category continues to deliver strategic leading edge innovation and profitable sales growth
- Manage and implement the product development process within this selected category to ensure that product ranges are delivered in line with agreed product direction whilst adhering to brand values, within a set CTP
- Using lessons learnt to analyse catalogue and identify product eliminations, upgrades and new opportunities to maximize the category
- Integrate with cross functional team in commercial, technology and planning wrt the launching of competitive, profitable ranges
- Integrate with marketing and sales management teams to ensure maximum product exposure and implementation of initiatives
- Implement a product development program to support customer needs and to deliver to the foods directional framework
- Develop and maintain sustainable, mutually beneficial long term relationships with suppliers
- In conjunction with technical team, set and continuously improve the quality standards of the product ranges, through local and international benchmarking.
- Initiate and manage design brief and packaging development for the range, ensuring briefs communicate customer facing messages and tier of product
- Adopt a customer- facing way of working and gain an intimate understanding of the various customer segments through research and customer focus groups
Minimum requirements
- BSc Consumer Science or Culinary qualification is mandatory
- Strong technical background and skills will be required for this position
- 5 years foods product development or related foods experience
- Previous exposure in the meat industry will be a benefit
- Strong culinary and food preparation skills
- A superior palate and sensor evaluation skills
- A superior eye for detail and product flair is essential
- Ability to interpret and drive innovation strategy across category
- Understanding of retail, foods & lifestyle trends and target market & range segmentation
- Customer knowledge & understanding
- Passion for food with ability to transfer passion into commercially viable product
- Strong planning and project management skills
- Results driven
- Innovative / continuous improvement mind-set
- Team player with appreciation of diversity
- Computer literate
- Proven commercial aptitude – ability to understand and use financial indicators
- Ability to incorporate product strategy into supplier base
- Proven ability to work with design team to ensure appropriate visual imagery is developed within the corporate brand identity
- Strong integrator – proven ability to work within in a matrix and lead / drive cross group projects
- Strong presentation, communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to set and improve quality standards in a complex supplier base
Woolworths is an equal employment opportunity company that is committed to inclusion and diversity
