Category Assistant

**About Us**:
Priceline, Australia's leading beauty, health and wellbeing retailer is looking to appoint a career driven Category Assistant Priceline Category Health Team. With over 400 stores nationally (both company owned Priceline stores and franchise Pharmacies), Priceline is the fastest growing retail brand in Australia.

Based at the Camberwell Support office the Category Assistant for Health will have close working relationships with cross-functional teams, supporting the achievement of the category goals by ensuring compliance to efficient and streamlined end-to-end processes. The Category Assistant works in close alignment with the Senior / Category Manager to operationalise the category plan.

**About the Role**:
**Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Review master data to ensure correct pricing master data is maintained and margins are maintained
- Ensure the timely and accurate supply of data to drive financial reporting
- Engagement with suppliers to ensure accuracy of master data and claims income and facilitate loading of scan deals to ensure correct margin
- Be involved in and support Category Managers develop a Category Plan which aligns with the Priceline Health / Beauty strategy and sees innovation meeting customers’ needs consistently across the category
- Maintain a view of routine reporting and data to identify and resolve issues, escalating to the Category Manager as/if required
- Actively seek out opportunities to ensure Priceline has a point of difference from other retailers and exclusivity in the range
- Perform an integral role within the cross-functional category team to ensure compliance to end-to-end Category Management processes, including range review, competitive price checks, supplier and article on-boarding & exit, financial planning, store communications etc., as applicable to the role
- Prepare concise and correct data / content for monthly reports, providing a clear update on the category performance
- Administration of key promotional activations (accurate pricing, scan and promo deal activation) and catalogue checks to ensure accuracy and zero compliance issues
- Use basic strategic sourcing concepts to identify, evaluate and select the best Supplier Partners who drive the category strategy and hold mínimal risk
- Build strong win/win relationships with Supplier Partners, to support achievement of the Category Plan

**About you**:
- Tertiary Qualification (Business, Marketing or Retail)
- desirable
- Experience in retail or pharmacy stores
- Desirable - Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Category Assistant, with a strong category management background
- Basic understanding of Category Management
- Interest in developing understanding of supply chain management and flow on impacts
- Strong time management skills, with the ability to juggle priorities while delivering exceptional work within the required timeframes
- Perseverance and resilience to manage setbacks and work within a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate clearly to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to provide clear instruction and guidance to others helping them to understand process and the actions required to implement process
- Flexible and maintain a positive outlook toward change
- Ability to self-manage while being an integral team member, supporting peers and helping them in peak times