Category Planner

Job description

Job Description:

Summary

·  Maintain accurate and timely product data
·  Instigate best practices of data management
·  Consistent delivery of best ways of working across category and clusters

About the role

Your key accountabilities will include

·  Accurate and timely collation, entry and maintenance of new and existing product reference data ensuring everything is set-up ‘right first time’.
·  Creation and maintenance of selling price changes.
·  Ensure RDA UPT changes approved by the buyer have interfaced and resolve any issues.
·  Creation and maintenance of cost price and UPT’s for non-RDA categories.
·  Approval of promotional artwork in Graphic Approver.
·  Project support where product data is impacted.
·  Check daily Data Quality report and resolve all commercial issues within SLA. (excluding RDA pending workflow – ‘B1’)
·  Accurate and timely completion of FPS for category promotions.
·  Complete monthly promotional funding administration.
·  Accurate and timely filing of evidence for monthly supplier contributions and promotional funding.
·  Resolution of supplier invoice queries for cost price and UPT changes.
·  Creation and archiving of category documents (Critical Path, Price change form) providing an auditable trail of ways of working/launch success.

About you

Your skills and experience will include

·  Accurate management and maintenance of data
·  Accurate production and distribution of documented data
·  Managing and meeting deadlines
·  Ability to analyse and interpret data
·  Numeracy
·  Accuracy
·  Effective communication
·  Works well as part of a team
·  Good knowledge of Food category processes & operationTechnical skills preferable but not essential):
·  Knowledge of key Food systems is preferable but not essential: SAP, New Foods, FIND, Graphics Approver, FPS
·  Intermediate to advanced Excel