Category Development Analyst

6 months ago

Bella Vista, Australia Woolworths Full time

**Category Development Analyst
- End-to-end delivery of customer-focused category plans and range reviews: This includes developing, implementing, and monitoring category plans and range reviews to ensure they meet customer needs and drive business growth.
- Driving continuous improvement: The analyst will identify and implement opportunities to improve category performance, including efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction. Providing analytical support: This includes developing and delivering insights, reports, and recommendations to support category managers in making informed decisions.

**We are Woolworths Group**

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose - ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ It’s that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you’re excited to turn today’s blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**About the Opportunity
We seek to give our customers a great shopping experience both in-store and online, making sure they can always ‘get their Woollies worth’ as they shop for the freshest foods, a curated range of products that makes sense to their community along with healthier and sustainable options. The Category Development Team is responsible for partnering with Category Managers to deliver a differentiated & tailored product offer for our customers, leveraging our data and insights to inform our supermarket's strategy and product-ranging decisions.

**What you’ll do
The Category Development Analyst is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of customer-focused category plans and range reviews for our Category Managers, driving continuous improvement while providing analytical support including developing business improvement opportunities and generating proactive & actionable insights.
- Partner with Category Managers by deriving data led insights, providing recommendations on category strategy and influencing to land customer first results
- Identify category opportunities through structured analysis and problem solving across different areas; including customer behaviour, market trends, category performance, pricing, supplier dynamics
- Incorporate strategic insights from qualitative and quantitative consumer and category research into ranging decisions
- Use analytical tools to drive insights; including category segmentation, clustering, range performance and product optimisation
- Consult and collaborate confidently with stakeholders across the business to achieve desired outcomes Demonstrating continuous improvement and evolving category development process in line with the company’s strategic objectives

**What you’ll bring
With a strong understanding of retail through experience as a Retailer, Supplier, or Consultant with one of the leading Consultancy firms, you will bring to the role a track record in demonstrating stakeholder management and influencing skills, alongside strong analytical skills and high attention to detail.
- Curious to understand customer behaviour and its links to commercial outcomes
- Understanding of business implications of range & space strategy recommendations, including commercial & operational impacts
- Clear analytical thinking, with capability of breaking information into component parts, patterns and relationships
- Capable of interpreting data and deriving actionable insights for short and long term strategies
- A track record in demonstrating stakeholder management and networking to build working relationships to deliver results
- Able to challenge effectively and demonstrate resilience
- Confident communicator and storyteller; with strong visualisation, verbal and written skills
- An agile worker with the ability to work as part of a team but also independently where required Advanced Excel functions e.g. pivot tables, formulas and conditional formatting; with basic SQL skills a plus

**What you’ll experience
Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

- A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
- A global business with endless career possibilities arou

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