Assistant Category Manager

**What We're Like**

At BIG W everyday’s a big day. For you, this could be the start of something big. There are over 15,000 of us, in the biggest cities and the tiniest towns. And each of us has an important role to play to help make a real difference for families by providing real value, real solutions and real care. If you have a passion for designing and delivering great customer experiences; a desire to join BIG W's journey to become a purpose led digital retailer enabled by a great store network; and if you’re looking for a place to grow your career, we could be just for you

**The Role**

The **_Assistant Category Manager _**role brings the BIG W strategy to life by leading the **_Home Office _**category strategy, supporting the curation of the best range and creating value for our customers. This ambition leads to maximising sales, profit, customer satisfaction and optimised inventory. Your new role is an integral part of the Home Office Team which will see you coaching, mentoring and developing team members to be forward thinking and agile in our approach to supporting our customers.

Other key responsibilities will include:

- Support the Senior Category Manager in building the category strategy by gaining a thorough understanding of customer insights & the market to contribute to the BIG W Strategy
- Curate ranges, refine pricing and promotion channel plan in line with category strategy, using customer and market insights to ensure it’s aligned to BIG W strategies.
- Partner with Suppliers to build relationship and optimise supplier portfolio in category to increase sales, profit and customer advocacy
- Working end to end as one team across all Support Teams and broader Woolworths Business
- Partner with Marketing team to establish effective marketing campaign activities
- To ensure that all products ranged within the category are compliant to Australian consumer law. To ensure that all own brand and exclusive brand products are approved through the Big W QA processes prior to ranging of the product lines. To understand BIG W's New Product Development process as it relates to the products ranged within your category
- Role model BIG W Purpose, Values and Ways of Working
- Develop as a Assistant Category Manager with clear development & succession plan to build trusted relationships within the BIG W business

**About You**

To be successful in this role and thrive in our high performing and innovative culture, you will have the drive and desire to learn and develop your category management skills, look to seek out opportunities and build ways of working in our ecosystem.

In addition, you will have:

- Previous experience in a category management role, ideally with a general merchandise focus, or category assistant management experience, looking to take that next step.
- Team player, who is able to deliver innovative and creative solutions for customers and teams.
- Ability to learn fast, ask questions and strong relationship building.

**What's in it for you?
- An attractive remuneration package including base and super
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia both across BIG W and Woolworths.
- Opportunity to join the most engaging team in the business.
- Tech options - Woolworths is the largest employer of Google Apps in Australia, are early adopters of Agile and have BYOD options too.
- An exciting career - as our business grows, so do the opportunities for our people.
- Flexibility and work-life balance policies that will help you thrive.

**Joining the Group
As part of the wider Woolworths Group, 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 providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.

Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. BIG W is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.