Merchandising Strategy Lead

3 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Woolworths Group Full time

We are Woolworths Group, a leading retail company in Australia and New Zealand.

Job Title

Merchandising Strategy Lead

Estimated Salary Range:

$90,000 - $120,000 per annum, depending on experience and location.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Merchandising Strategy Lead. You will play a key role in leading the merchandising vision and multi-year strategy for categories, focusing on our key strategic pillars.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Co-create with key strategic partners across commercial and Merchandise & Customer Value (ie: Macro, Category Development) to deliver against our key strategic priorities (ie: Range Curation)
  • Partner with the Merchandising Optimisation Team to leverage technology within space optimisation, specifically through the Planogram Generator tool
  • Partner with the Merchandising Operations Team to identify store level opportunities with a focus on improving our store team experience and operational efficiencies in our complex category portfolio
  • Creation of insights and data, demonstrating strong analytical rigour that inform and influence the current merchandise opportunities within a commercial strategy through product merchandising and ease in customer shopping experience
  • Leading the conversation and building trust through insight and data to enable, influence and unlock commercial opportunities
Requirements:
  • Possess a passion for great customer experiences and stores
  • Be curious to understand customer behaviour and its links to commercial and space optimisation outcomes
  • Demonstrate attention to detail and result-oriented mindset with strong governance and validation of all planograms before category review is published to stores
  • Show clear analytical thinking, with capability of breaking information into component parts, patterns and relationships
  • Interpret data and derive actionable insights for short and long term strategies
  • Proven track record in demonstrating proactive stakeholder management and networking
About Us

We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude.

What We Offer:
  • Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love
  • 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 the opportunity to harmonise work, life and your wellbeing
  • Parental Leave provisions and various leave types, including but not limited to Study Leave and Sports Representation Leave
We Welcome All Candidates

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

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