Category Innovation Specialist

6 months ago

Bella Vista, Australia Woolworths Full time

**Category Innovation Specialist - **Middle Eastern/Halal/South Asian Category Specialist

As Middle Eastern/Halal/South Asian Category Specialist you will be assisting the Multicultural Category Innovation Manager to drive innovation and sourcing to deliver a differentiation and meaningful range across the Middle Eastern/Halal/South Asian Category. Maximizing opportunities via partnership with existing suppliers, Seedlab and sourcing new suppliers via identifying trends and opportunities.
- Bella Vista, NSW Based Hybrid working options available

**About Us**

As Australia’s largest retailer, we depend on our teams across our stores, distribution centres and support offices to provide our customers with exceptional service, products and price. Our people are at the heart of our business and together, we are committed to ensuring Woolworths Group is a great place to work.

We are building a better tomorrow for our people by demonstrating care, creating a safe place where they can be their best selves, and empowering them to reach their full potential.

Our care for people is at the heart of how we support our communities through mutually beneficial partnerships and by working hand in hand with our suppliers to build a rights-respecting culture in our supply chain.

**About the Role
An exciting opportunity to join the Up & Multicultural team as a Category Specialist, in this role you will be accountable to deliver;
- Using customer insights support VOC, NPS and VOS of our Multicultural customers and suppliers
- Build a strong reputation as the retailer of choice from small suppliers by implementing the small supplier strategy and communicating in a timely manner to queries from internal stakeholders, suppliers and customers.
- Utilize data and insights to ensure supplier partnerships are aligned to commercial outcomes
- Support the creation of events, POCs and trials to validate the performance of offers to inform the growth and development stream for Middle Eastern/Halal/South Asian, support stores with the DSD process to ensure the trial is successfully embedded
- Ensure any unsuccessful trials are managed through to the mutual benefit of the supplier and WW
- Role model ways of working that strengthen relationships with all stakeholders
- Support the Multicultural Category Innovation Manager by working with suppliers on negotiating phases of their initial growth before handing the relationship to the Supplier Development team
- Activation of products to maximize sales and drive customer awareness and repeat purchase
- You'll be able to achieve this by:
- Clear, professional, engaging and concise communication, internal and external
- Collaborate with the various cross functional teams and adapt with changing conditions demonstrating a growth mindset e.g. Marketing, Replenishment, Customer Insights etc
- Use data driven decision making and the agile fail fast principle to drive performance
- Demonstrate strong time management skills and the ability to prioritize whilst working to many different project timelines
- Sound financial acumen, understanding the various levers to drive commercial performance Leverage existing resources and processes such as Range curation to land new propositions**About You**

Woolworths people are great people. Whether we’re learning new things, seizing the initiative, or winning together our customers are at the heart of everything we do. If you’re the sort of individual who takes accountability and strives to always do the right thing for each other, our communities, our customers, and our business then we ought to connect.- 2+ years experience in a similar role demonstrating a successful track record of commercial acumen
- Ability to support to deliver category growth, showcasing data led decision making
- Have experience in **OR **an interest in Middle Eastern/Halal/South Asian products
- Proven success in negotiating and influencing at all levels and managing multiple stakeholders, demonstrating constructive and solid relationships
- Willingness to learn, collaborate with the wider team and adapt with changing conditions
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to negotiate with suppliers, aligning to key OKRs

**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 pr

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