Assistant Category Manager

**Assistant Category Manager - Beauty**
- Assist the Category Manager in executing promotional category plans that are better for customers, simpler for stores and deliver against financial and non-financial targets.
- Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia

**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.

**What you’ll do**
- Run an effective promotional program that delivers against sales, profit and market share targets
- Utilise data and insights to ensure our promotional offers are customer led and deliver a ROI
- Manage the financial KPIs for the category across sales, profit, inventory and promotional margin
- Manage the Non-financial KPIs for Voice of Supplier, Voice of Team and Voice of Customer
- Develop our strategic supplier relationships through effective communication and negotiation in regards to promotional investment and executions (aligning to KPI’s)

**What you’ll bring**
- Previous experience in Buying or Category management is preferred
- Promotional Strategy, and bringing new products to market
- A broad skill set in increasing sales and profit through implementation of strategic program initiatives
- Analytical skills and understanding of customer insights to make informed decisions
- Demonstrated the ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and external stakeholders

**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.

**En**dless p**ossibilities 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 experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

**See how we’re creating better experiences together, for a better tomorrow**

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