Category Manager Own Brand

**Category Manager Own Brand - Play**
- Newly Created Permanent Opportunity
- Inclusive culture with a focus on creating genuine career opportunities
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia

**What you'll do**

The Category Manager for Own Brand brings the BIG W Strategy to life by delivering the Category Strategy to create the best range and create value for our customers to maximise sales, profit and customer satisfaction. A key part of this role will be to deliver product innovation and new ranges which meet customer needs where we want to accelerate our pipeline of own brand product in a meaningful way. This role also delivers on partnering with new and existing partners, unlocking new product opportunities to transform the BIGW business.
- Supporting the Senior Category Manager - Own Brand, lead the end-to-end development within our own brand range, with a focus on innovation, new segments and products.
- Partnering within the Commercial team to build the own brand category strategy across Stationery, Craft and Home office, using customer insights and market data to support the BIG W Strategy.
- Delivering key product and innovation pipelines by partnering with Brandco, BWA, QA and supplier partners, ensuring delivery of the best product at the best unit price, supporting business goals, 2030 sustainability targets, while supporting execution in stores and DCs.
- Support category range review and end of season review, alongside Design, recommending new products and segments in line with the category strategy, curation of existing options, vendor and MOQ review.
- Identify range gaps and bring products to market in line with the critical path and ensuring all required NPD steps are followed. Ranges will also be developed in an accelerated timeline to critical path.
- Using expert product development knowledge, supplier negotiation and sourcing skills to make clear recommendations and gain buy-in from relevant cross functional teams.

**What you'll bring**
- 5 years previous experience as a commercial retail buyer in Stationery, Home Office or Craft, successfully trading a sizeable category in terms of $ and options
- Strong partnering and influencing skills with proven experience of building strong relationships to deliver a point of difference
- Proven experience of building strong relationships to deliver a point of difference.
- Proven experience working towards KIPs

**What you'll experience**
- A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
- Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
- A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
- Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
- Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc.

**Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group**

We're a proud part of the Woolworths Group - 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.'

Here you'll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

**Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group**

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team's diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

**See how we're creating better experiences together, for a better tomorrow**

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