Assistant Category Manager

Company Description

**Discover your next career adventure with Dans**

With over 260 stores and 6500+ team members we're on a mission to share our passion for good wine and great times. We welcome people in. That includes you. If you're someone with a passion for drinks and a thirst for knowledge, there's always something ahead for you here.

**Job Description**:

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Love what you do and leave your mark**:

- ** A newly created role within our Dan Murphy's Merchandise team.**

As an **Assistant Category Manager **for **Ultra Convenience**, you'll be responsible for leading the end to end pricing & promotional planning rhythm, while working in close partnership with the Category Manager, Marketing, E-Commerce and Endeavour X teams.

You will build and manage successful supplier relationships and have an intimate understanding of competitors, brands, consumer & shopper trends, along with customer focused promotional strategies that drive sustainable growth.

The role will be required to have a strong knowledge of the category and a confidence in leveraging insights and data to achieve key sales and profit metrics.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

- Design, manage & administer the price beat program for Dan Murphy's on Ultra Convenience.
- Continuous monitoring of competitor pricing on Ultra Convenience and corresponding shelf prices.
- Work with key stakeholders (other ACMs, Trade Planning Manager, E-Commerce & Marketing teams) to establish, manage and deliver an Ultra Convenience-specific Trade Plan.
- Work with Range Category Managers to manage the addition/removal of products from the platform as needed.
- Partner with Pinnacle on a customer plan that grows the share of Pinnacle and step changes the customer knowledge and appetite for these brands.
- Drive best practices and process improvements including automation of existing processes supporting Ultra Convenience at Endeavour.
- Ongoing analysis of range and promotional performance to drive optimisations. Participate in weekly and monthly reporting rhythms to share performance with the broader business.
- Support expansion of Dan Murphy's on to new Ultra Convenience platforms.
- Engage and Inspire the team(s) with positive actions and behaviours
- Seek out ways to improve, share those ideas with the team by role modeling our value and ways of working and driving the improvements.

**Qualifications**:
Now let's talk about you:

- Experience in promotions management (2+ Years) in a multi channel buying environment preferred.
- You enjoy processes, process improvement and managing data
- Proven delivery of a P&L.
- Understanding of channel management strategy.
- Experience working with suppliers or stakeholders to achieve joint business goals and outcomes.
- Intermediate to advanced excel skills is essential.
- Knowledgeable and confident in the world of Drinks is desirable.
- Tertiary qualifications in business and/or marketing preferred.

**The benefits are good too**
- We offer flexible working in every sense
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy's, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it's our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
- Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.
- At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone's welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply._

Additional Information

**We are together creators**

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy's, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We're serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We're all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you're close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
- #WeAreTogetherCreators #ComeAsYouAre #DreamBig #FeelTheEnergy #LeaveYourMark #EndeavourGroup_