Category Manager

3 months ago


Bella Vista, Australia WLiving Full time

**Category Manager - Beauty - Big W**
Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our beauty department. You'll be responsible for developing and executing strategic plans to drive growth and profitability across all beauty categories, including Cosmetics, Skincare, Fragrance, and Body Care.
- Leverage your analytical skills to extract insights from customer data, identify market trends, and develop strategies to optimise product assortment, pricing, and promotions.
- Working end to end as one team across all Support Teams and broader BIGW BusinessA passion for relationship building and making a difference in our stores and for our customers will take you far

**Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group
We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group - 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose - ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’

Here you’ll be supported and empowered 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. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**What you’ll experience
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- A progressive and flexible ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.*Parental Leave provision - applies to permanent team members, and excludes casual team Members, fixed term team members and contractors.

**What you’ll do
- Partner with the Senior Category Manager to build the category strategy by gaining a thorough understanding of customer insights & the market to contribute to the BIG W Strategy
- Refine pricing and promotion channel plan in line with Category Strategy, using Customer and Market insights to ensure it’s aligned to BIG W strategies
- Partner with Suppliers to build relationship and optimise supplier portfolio in category to increase sales, profit and customer advocacy
- Partner with BIGW Asia & Graphic Packaging Design Team to maximise own brand offers & grow customer advocacy where relevantEnsure that all products ranged within the category are compliant to Australian consumer law. To ensure that all own brand and exclusive brand products are approved through the Big W QA processes prior to ranging of the product lines. To understand BIG W's New Product Development process as it relates to the products ranged within your category

**What you’ll bring
- Proven experience as a Category Manager in a large retail organisation or FMCG environment. Experience within a Beauty Portfolio is highly regarded
- Demonstrated success in developing and executing customer-focused category plans aligned with the divisional strategy and supported by sound commercial insights and data.
- Strong negotiation and influence skills with cross-functional and external stakeholders at all levels of the business.
- Ability to become an industry expert in the field of responsibility within Australia.Passion for product and product development, staying at the forefront of innovation and continuous improvement.
- **Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Woolworths Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.



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