Jarred van Vuuren

• Category Leadership: Responsible for the sales and development of Omni's non-food offering in the private label and own label space for 38 retailers.
• Strategy development and execution: Responsible for developing the strategy that will drive growth in the category for the business. This includes development for current financials and future financials.
• Global procurement and sales: Responsible for finding factories for Omni to procure from, conducting the initial check on the factory, running commercials, and ensuring the factory can meet the demands of our customers.
• Building Innovation Strategy: Responsible for building an innovation pipeline from start to finish. I use consumer insights and trends to build the offering in a competitive environment.
• Commercial negotiation and P&L management: Responsible for managing margins, sales, and profitability in the category. The category is currently the fastest growing in the business and has the highest margin in the business.
• Reports: In direct reports in South America, South Africa, Asia Pacific, and Turkey.

United Kingdom: Boots UK, ASDA, and Morrisons.

Africa: Shoprite, Clicks, Dischem, Spar South Africa, Choppies, and Naivas Kenya.

Australia: Coles, Priceline, Chemist Warehouse, and Metcash.

Hong Kong and Asia: DFI (Guardian).

• Product development: Responsible for product development of brands and private label. Launched a new brand and eight brand extensions to existing brands.
• Leadership: Led a team of three direct reports as well as outsourced salespeople in the US and the UK.
• Brand Management: Responsible for all brand plans and range extensions.
• Financial accountability: P&L management of offshore subsidiaries and brand profitability.
• New business units set up: Set up fully operational subsidiaries in the UK and USA to export products outside the African market.
• Data Management: Responsible for managing brand data.
• Reported directly to the Managing Director of the business.

• Account Management: Managed four customer accounts, all of which grew by over 50% over five years.
• New business: secured new listings in a major retailer.
• Financial Management: Full P&L management, promotional spend, and stock management.
• Procurement: procured packaging from China for domestic production.

• Assisted sales director for two years, gaining insight into business operations and retail trends.
• Contributed to new product launches by researching and sourcing emerging market trends.
• Developed pricing and promotion strategies to enhance product appeal and sales performance.
• Played a key role in launching Renew, a private label exclusive to Shoprite Holdings.
• Achieved status of largest private label personal care brand in Southern Africa through successful marketing initiatives.