Assistant Category Manager

Full time, permanent position with competitive salary and benefits
- Location: Alexandria, Sydney Head Office - Work from home flexibility
- Development pathway into a Buyer role

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**About the role**:
It is an exciting time to join our Merchandise team as we transform our retail business with fantastic offers for our convenience stores.

We are looking for an Assistant Category Manager who will support many key aspects of the buying function and the execution of category strategy. This is a key role within a dedicated team, which will enable you to enhance your skills and experience to develop in this space. You will be actively involved in all areas of buying, thus the ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and external stakeholders is essential.

You will support category managers to deploy the strategy across a portfolio, by planning, managing price, range, and promotions in our Ampol retail stores. This role will help drive key pillars for growth and develop actionable insights, having a direct impact on the profitability of the company.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Employing your capability as a talented negotiator with an ability to successfully influence and engage a diverse group of stakeholders and communicate key information effectively.
- Successfully managing time and workload to cope with multiple priorities and the varying demands of the business.
- Work with Category Managers/Buyers to develop category performance reports which include all key metrics i.e., Sales, profitability, and waste.
- Reviewing market data, trends and report outputs to identity opportunities and initiatives to drive sales, profitability, and market share.
- Inspire thought leadership with internal teams to lead brand, product and sales strategy based in data and insights, influencing on the value of our categories.
- Ensure communication to our retail stores is clear, so they can deliver a high level of execution.
- Support the development of commercial forecasts for promotional programs, and stock forecast for direct to store suppliers.
- Assist with lookback of promotions and modelling of new promotional mechanics.
- Support the management of supplier relationships, including supplier invoicing and tracking supplier income.

**About you**:
You are reliable, enthusiastic, have a high level of autonomy and initiative, and are highly motivated; we are looking for a team player who is interested in a career in Merchandising, and excited to learn about different aspects of the business as we develop and expand your career opportunities.
- Undergraduate degree in commerce or relevant technical degree desirable
- Experience in a merchandising, purchasing or commercial environment.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential and prior exposure to data analysis and the ability to translate data into recommendations.
- Prior use of SAP BI Tools, Power BI or market performance tools would be beneficial.
- High level of verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior management.

**Our Benefits**:

- **Our total remuneration is competitive.** This is across base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers and a 25% discount on fuel for two privately used cars
- **We are flexible**. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value.
- **We value recognition.** We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values.
- **Career development and learning opportunities **including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions.
- **BabyCare Package** - financial and flexible support for parent