Asst Category Manager

**Asst Category Manager - Own Brand, Baby & Nursery Big W**
- Permanent Opportunity
- Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia

**What you’ll do**

Asst Category Manager - Own Brand, Baby & Nursery brings the BIG W Strategy to life by delivering the Category Strategy to create the best range and create value for our customers to maximise sales, profit and customer satisfaction. A key part of this role will be to deliver product innovation and new own brand ranges which meet customer needs where we want to accelerate our pipeline of product in a meaningful way. This role also delivers on partnering with new and existing partners, unlocking new product and partnership opportunities to transform the BIGW business.
- Lead the end-to-end development of products within our own brand range, with a focus on innovation and creation.
- Desire to see your product range come to life using expert product development knowledge, supplier negotiation skills, customer insights and of course, your creativity
- Delivering key product and innovation pipelines by partnering with the design team, BWA, QA, and supplier partners
- Identifying market gaps and bringing products to market in an accelerated timeline
- Partnering within the Commercial team to build the own brand category strategy across Baby & Nursery, using customer insights and market data to support the BIG W Strategy
- Making clear recommendations and gaining buy-in from relevant teams
- Working with BWA, the design team, and suppliers to deliver the best product at the best unit price, supporting both business goals and 2025 sustainability targets
- Curating ranges and refining pricing in line with the category strategy, using customer and market insights to ensure alignment with BIG W strategies
- Partnering with suppliers to build strong relationships and optimise the supplier portfolio to increase sales, profit, and customer advocacy

**What you’ll bring**
- Previous experience as a commercial retail buyer.
- Successfully trading a sizeable category in terms of $ and options.
- Strong partnering and influencing skills with proven experience of building strong relationships to deliver a point of difference.
- Proven experience working towards KIPs

**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.
- Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
- A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
- Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc.

**We are Woolworths Group**

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition 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.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**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.

**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 experienc