Retail Account Manager
Our client is a Stellenbosch-based grower-packer marketing company with their key focus on local retail supply from their preferred group of partner farms and packhouses. They have built their business around dedicated local supply to a select few South African retail supermarkets and they are currently seeking to appoint a Retail Account Manager to join their company.
The Retail Account Manager will be responsible for the following:
- Planning
- Put together Master Program based on suppliers estimates
- Daily availability to be sent to buyers based on stocks and availability
- Execution of daily orders with packhouses and staging depots
- Procurement of product for current client program
- Logistics planning of product from packhouses to client’s DC’s
- Stock management of fresh product
- Stock management – Lugs, etc (Chep)
- Technical Management
- Ensure all packhouses are client compliant
- Ensure all product packed for the client is according to spec
- Ensure all pack houses send “Airtable Pallet Release QC Reports” with each load-out
- Management of all rejections at DC level back to grower
- Category Management
- Develop new category lines within current Stone & Pome supply
- Maximise supply into each SKU
- Develop new supply for additional category lines. g. Grapes / Citrus
- Procurement of product for new client business
- Relationship Management
- Pack house visits with current supplier network
- Manage relationship with client’s DC’s and National Head Office
Please ensure that your application contains the following information:
- A detailed Curriculum Vitae (in Word format) with contact numbers and e-mail details
- A covering letter motivating your application
- Availability
- Contactable references
If you have not heard from us within four weeks after the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.