Fresh Food Category Supervisor at Penafort Energy Limited

Job Description

• The Fresh Food Category Supervisor will be primarily responsible for the planning, selecting and buying of merchandise for our Fresh section of the Supermarket (Bakery, Fruits and Vegetable, Butchery).
• Duties include market research, competitor analysis, product evaluations and testing, monitoring purchase orders,creating reports for the management team and ensuring the profitability of the section.

Job Responsibilities

• Research, select and purchase quality products
• Identifying and defining the best assortment based on the customer profile.
• Reactive and well connected to the market, to be able to close good deals (price, freshness, quantities) fast
• Must know the best source and origins of fruits and vegetables/ ability to calculate fast margins and good excel skills
• Update inventory and ensure that stock level is kept appropriate at all times
• Build new relationships with suppliers
• Analyze market trends and apply this knowledge to make buying decisions
• Responsible for the profitability of the section
• Ensure full compliance of all sourcing activities with internal policies and procedures

Qualifications

• 3+ years of with Excel experience
• 5+ years of retail, operations, product or program management, or business management/consulting with negotiations and delivering results experience
• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with financial analysis and P&L ownership
• Very strong negotiation skills/ good product knowledge.
• Fruits & Vegetables knowledge (items, origins, seasons, competition, suppliers, market trends, consumer behavior, demographics specificities)
• Expert on local production
• Able to quickly adapt in a changing environment/ agile
• Experience managing large data sets and utilizing to drive performance and process improvements
• Experience in vendor negotiations, pricing and promotion, inventory management, and product development.