Category Manager

We’ve been trusted to serve Aussie communities since 1914 and grown to become a top 30-listed on the ASX with 120,000 team members and a portfolio of iconic brands. At Coles Group, you’ll not only get to make a difference to millions of Aussie lives—you’ll also get to see your impact.

**About the team**:
The Merchandise team at Coles plays a critical role and pride themselves on building sustainable long term supplier relationships, developing new range offers and ideas, and working on convenient, healthy solutions.

You’ll find us working across all business units at Coles Supermarkets, Liquor and Express. Supermarkets is one of the largest teams at Coles, but we’re a close-knit group that come from all over the world. We’re passionate about working at the forefront of merchandising and making sure our customers have quality products at the right price.

The Fresh Produce business is crucial to the delivery of our company wide purpose which is to sustainably feed all Australians and help them lead healthier, happier lives. Innovations in product, technology, supply chain systems and store formats are all enablers for the future growth of the Fresh Produce business.

**About the role.**:
As Category Manager - Floral & Nuts, you will have full accountability of the P&L of a varied portfolio across Floral, Nuts and our Scoop & weigh business across our Fresh Produce department and will develop a winning category strategy to implement across our stores.

You will need the ability to build strong internal and external relationships and be able to optimise your operation to drive improved sales and profit outcomes. This role will require you to work end-to-end; set a high-level strategy and engage with our store network to drive excellent execution of your plan.

You will partner with the best growers all over Australia to deliver your strategy in over 800 stores across Australia as well as meeting some of the most amazing characters and working in some incredible locations during your travels.

Utilising your strategic skills, you will identify growth opportunities within your category and partner with suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver a point of difference for our customer base and increase our share within the market. This includes product and range development for hero seasonal events including Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.

You'll also:

- Drive results and performance of your categories
- Work cross-functionally across Marketing, Operations, Transformation and Strategy
- Execute our customer-centric strategy for your categories
- Drive innovation within the category, working closely with the broader Coles Merchandise team
- Build strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, using your negotiation and influencing skills to drive the direction of the category

**About you and your skills**:
In this role you will be able to utilise your experience in understanding market share gaps and helping to develop and implement a market leading plan across this portfolio. Well-developed stakeholder management skills will be key to the success of this role.

You will also have:

- Demonstrated Category Management and/or Merchandise experience within a retail environment.
- Outstanding influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strategic thinking with the ability to operate in a dynamic, customer-driven retail environment.
- Proven ability to champion and drive change through engaging with senior leadership.
- Strong financial acumen within a highly commercial environment.
- Customer first approach

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With us it’s not about the discounts (although you do get those), it’s about joining a team where your wellbeing and professional development is invested in and celebrating your contributions is the norm. And because everyone leads unique lives, we offer flexible work including work from home, additional leave and parental leave entitlements.

**Safer together**:
Job ID: 72792

Employment Type: Full time