Supplier Capability Lead

3 weeks ago

Bella Vista, Australia Woolworths Full time

**About Woolworths Group**

Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.

**Supplier Category Development Lead
Are you passionate about category development solutions? Do you have a good understanding of the category management process, and how data sources and analysis tools are used by suppliers & retailers?
- Help grow Woolworth's diverse range of supplier capabilities
- Leverage our customer & commercial data & insights
- True hybrid working with collaborative workspaces in Bella Vista

**About the role
Our Supplier Capability team delivers continued improvement to enhance the engagement with our supplier network to be the most preferred retailer to partner with.

Our team is a key conduit between Woolworths Suppliers and Supermarket Commercial stakeholders to continuously improve our framework, leveraging our data and insights to inform our Supplier interactions.

You will support the development and delivery of an effective framework that ensures better outcomes for our customers and enhances the quality of conversations with suppliers, step-changing our Trade Partner Plans to clearly be the most preferred retailer to partner with.

Key Responsibilities
- Continual development of tools (products) and processes that help grow Woolworths and its diverse range of supplier’s capability
- Drive the development and implementation of increased volume of high-quality, effective joint category plans
- Deliver continued improvement in Supplier engagement with commercial processes to grow "Voice of Supplier"
- Drive continuous improvement and evolve the Supplier Engagement framework in line with the company’s strategic objectives through the development of Supplier Engagement including Joint Category Planning Processes and Supplier Connect Tools to enable Trade Partner planning.
- Actively solicits stakeholder input and feedback and monitors usage & engagement through analytical approaches, quantitative and qualitative data and research to enable continual enhancements.

**About You
You bring a good understanding of the category management process, and how data sources and analysis tools are used by suppliers & retailers.
- Experience in a Category Development role with an FMCG / Retail / Supplier environment
- Clear analytical thinking, experienced breaking information into component parts, patterns and relationships
- Self-starter, with a bias toward action and attention to detail, able to turn information into actionable insights
- Strong empathy for product users and ability to define user functional, visual and data requirements
- Advanced Excel, Google Apps
- Strong stakeholder & communication skills
- Curious to understand customer behaviour and its links to commercial outcomes

**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.

We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.

As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.

We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and for each other.

**We’d love to hear from You
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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