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 and team experiences, a desire to join a business that is rapidly evolving into a purpose led digital retailer enabled by a great store network, and you’re looking for a place that cares about your development and growth, you could be who we’re looking for.
- Join one of Australia's most loved brands
- Join a highly energetic and innovative team
- Enjoy a workplace flexibility culture

**The Role**:
We are seeking a Category Manager for Apparel - Women's Knits & Wovens. The Category Manager brings the BIG W Strategy to life by delivering the Category Strategy to buy the best range and create value for our customers to maximise sales, profit and customer satisfaction and optimise inventory.

**_Key responsibilities will include:

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- Partner with the Senior Category Manager to build 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
- Partner with BIGW Asia & Graphic Packaging Design Team to maximise own brand offers & grow customer advocacy where relevant
- 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 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 a balance of commercial and strategic capability to lead and coach a team, leveraging collaborative ways of working to help realise BIG W’s ambition of becoming a digitally led retailer that is a customer first and team first that lives our purpose every day.

In addition, you will have:

- Previous experience in a category management role, ideally with an apparel focus
- Leadership and coaching experience, with exposure to managing through significant periods of change
- Team player, who is able to deliver innovative and creative solutions for customers and teams

**What's in it for you?
- 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.