Foods Department Manager

Overview

Our client in the retail industry is looking for a foods Departmental Manager that can deliver exceptional customer service through maximizing selling opportunities for allocated Foods Department, and the execution of operational excellence and development of a motivated Foods team. The ideal candidate must have integrity standards and must have a passion and commitment for excellence and the customer.

Competencies/Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a commitment to high performance:
• Delivery focused and goal driven
• Flexible
• Thrives on and responds to performance feedback
• Understand themselves and the impact they have on the people they interact with and the organization culture
• Plays a leading role in managing and implementing initiatives at a functional/specialist level, and
• Is recognized by their leadership team, peers and reports as competent and can hold their own with leaders in their function/ area of specialization.
• Builds strong networks and strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders and
• Engages and connects people to enable delivery of operating plan.
• Are consistent in their decision making and owns the consequences thereof due to strong business understanding and commercial knowledge.
• Demonstrates attention to detail and reacts to commercial and customer issues within their function.
• Effectively manages people to execute operating plan.
• Manage work in a positive and consistent way that creates challenging growth experience.
• Provide support for the store management team
• Demonstrates passion and commitment for excellence, the customer, the brand and organization, each other, South Africa and transformation and sustainability
• Role models the company values: Quality and Style, Value, Service, Innovation, Integrity, Energy
• Demonstrates a commitment to high performance – is delivery focused and goal driven, flexible and thrives on and responds to performance feedback
• Good leader and coach of talent
• Team development
• Understanding of the company’s Culture
• Strong merchant trader skills
• C&GM (& Foods where relevant) Retail Store operations competence

JOB REQUIREMENTS

Internal

• Minimum Grade 12
• Diploma in business administration, marketing, sales, advantageous
• Passion for foods, with knowledge thereof
• Ability and flexibility to work different shifts.
• Great team player
• Consistent IPM 3/4
• No final written warning on record.

External

• Minimum Diploma essential in business related field; Food production advantageous.
• Passion for foods with some knowledge thereof.
• Detail oriented
• Three references of conduct (work and personal)
• Previous experience in the Retail or Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry overseeing a team, would be advantageous.

ADDITIONAL CRITERIA

• Must have high integrity standards