Category Specialist

4 days 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.
- **Newly created permanent position**:

- **Partner within IT&T and Digital categories | Exciting times with the huge investments being made in this area**:

- **Based in Norwest/Surry Hills with hybrid working
**About our Procurement Team
**Woolworths Group’s Procurement team is transforming with an Agile mindset, Sustainable and Diverse sourcing and Team and Customer 1st culture at the core. We are an enterprise wide function providing thought leadership, best practice procurement methods and delivering a service that adds value to our business partners across the Group. We operate in a fast paced environment with entrepreneurial-minded professionals who work collaboratively to build relationships to achieve outcomes as leaders in the market. Our point of difference is that we are part of Australia’s largest retailer allowing us to provide unparalleled career opportunities.

The team is positioned to drive change and continuous improvement across the business whilst continually focussed on providing excellent experiences to Team (stakeholders) and Customers. The Procurement operating model, encompassing horizontal leadership, the Agile mindset and practises, ensures that we are a high performing team providing the best service to the Woolworths Group team.

**About the role
The Category Specialist will support the Category and Portfolio Managers to execute the Woolworths Procurement Strategy. They will utilise the Category Management Frameworks to deliver to business requirements within their window of opportunity. They will deliver the annual sourcing plans and meet the team's KPIs to increase value across ‘not for resale’ spend categories The Category Specialist will also contribute to the development and execution of the category strategies and sourcing initiatives to deliver best total value outcomes, whilst providing high levels of stakeholder satisfaction abnd compliance with procurement policies, standards and processes.
This role adds value to the Woolworths Group by:

- Being a Strategic Enabler for growth
- Developing and delivering Category Strategies with key stakeholders
- Bringing innovation to and re-engineering of the supply chains to reduce overall costs to the business
- Delivering Opex cost reduction and cost avoidance/containment and Capex saving, enable revenue initiativesand continuous improvement targets Build supplier and stakeholder relationships

**Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Portfolio Manager whilst gaining experience across a specific Portfolio of categories. This role focuses on IT&T and Digital
- Support the development of category plans in conjunction with key stakeholders
- Support key GNFR initiatives working with the Strategy and Program team and Business Units
- Anticipate, negotiate and execute commercial opportunities
- Identify procurement initiatives and associated stakeholders and influence them to achieve desired outcomes
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop, implement and manage vendor performance and reporting as part of a Supplier Relationship Management framework.
- Develop and ensure the timely production and distribution of Portfolio Reports inc. spend and contract expiry
- Manage the central repository for contracts, including developing Contract Work Spaces, electronic Transaction
- Approvals (eTAs) and ensure the completeness and integrity of the associated metadata
- Activity planning and the timely execution of contracts.
- Obtain data from varied sources to identify and support fact-driven opportunities. Ensure analysis is accurate, comprehensive and robust.
- Conduct market analysis to drive category and negotiation strategies.
- Conduct risk analysis and take action as required

**About You
In Finance we have an overarching capability framework that brings to life 5 key capabilities that shape who we are, what we do and how we work together, these are; value co-creator, inspiring leader, trusted advisor, agile learner and insights generator. We are looking forward to hearing how you may have demonstrated these capabilities whilst also thinking about your relevant experience. You will be:

- Tertiary qualified, preferably in Procurement
- Preferred experience in a similar procurement, supply chain or commercial role
- Preferred relevant professional accreditation or certification, such as MCIPS
- Fundamental knowledge of category management principles, processes and c

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