Space Optimisation Specialist

**About Us**

Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group has separated from Woolworths during the calendar year 2021 and is well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution
- **Work alongside a market leading, collaborative & fun team**:

- **A fantastic opportunity to help drive the range strategic agenda for some of the biggest retailers in the country**:

- **Sydney or Melbourne location - you choose, we offer true flexibility**

**About the role...**

Support our Merchandising Team in delivery of their category strategies providing strategic recommendations on category space adjustments. Tailoring range allocations for every different community we serve across Australia and ultimately connecting everyone with a drinks experience they’ll love. This will involve detailed analysis of our store trading patterns and layout requirements that help identify opportunities to improve our product offer.

Success in the role will require you to demonstrate strong leadership skills, a high level of curiosity, strong stakeholder management, communication and problem solving skills as well as the ability to translate technical concepts into business language. You will be driven to find solutions and utilise your strong data analytics acumen to ensure the most optimal outcomes across all initiatives.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Delivery of Space & Range strategic solutions via Optumera Analytical tool suite. Utilising the full array of optimisation tools as well as development of supportive insight tools in GCP.
- Scope, plan and deliver the Endeavour Drinks space roadmap in conjunction with wider group partners. Represent Endeavour Drinks interests to wider IT, Analytics and support teams.
- Use technical knowledge of the systems and data, combined with a logical thinking process & understanding of key business objectives to design-test-deliver enhancements to improve both efficiency and effectiveness of our ranging suite in delivering strategic outcomes.
- Take a lead role in developing new analytical capability within the wider business and drive for continuous improvement across all range systems, consistently looking for opportunities to deliver more optimal space solutions to our customers.
- Understand financial performance and return on space metrics & deliver strategic recommendations to stakeholders that ensure the right outcomes for EDG and its customers.
- Lead the delivery of end to end strategic space & range projects, demonstrating a leadership style that influences stakeholders to put data led recommendations at the centre of all decisions, and encourages a continuous improvement culture.
- Be an SME for all range & space related data requirements, working closely with internal/external stakeholders in identifying solutions that enable smarter, targeted outcomes of delivering range and greater understanding of performance outcomes.

**Your background**:
We are so much more than great pubs and stores - we are a team of great people connected through our shared values. We are sustainably innovating to meet the ever
- evolving needs of our customers.

To be successful in this role, you will be a lateral thinker, have great stakeholder management skills, and lead by example. Ideally you will demonstrate considerable experience in the following key areas:

- Relevant graduate qualification (e.g. business studies or a quantitative discipline) or equivalent work experience
- Technical skills associated with coding / formula building logic, automation and logical problem solving.
- Advanced data manipulation skills within software such as Google Sheets & Microsoft Excel.
- Ability to engage with a range of stakeholders to scope and develop potential solutions upfront.
- Ability to communicate range optimisation insights from data in a compelling way.
- Experience in managing project delivery in-line with timelines.
- Prior experience with a coding language for business analysis purpose (GCP: BigQuery & DataStudio visualisation preferred)

**Desirable**:

- Experience with BY Space/Floor/Range or TCS Optumera products an advantage
- Other Space and Merchandising software
- Proven track record of delivering major reviews/work responsibilities on time
- Clustering methodology and experience

**How will you be rewarded?**
- Excellent remuneration package and flexible working in every sense. We value our people
- Everyday Rewards plus card - access exclusive employee discounts across Woolworths,