Assistant Category Manager

4 weeks ago


Sydney, Australia Woolworths Group Limited Full time

Assistant Category Manager - Home Essentials (Stationary & Printer)

This Home essentials area will escalate your visibility across the organisation, challenging you with the opportunity to enhance and showcase your buying and product development skills, hone your negotiation skills and utilise your promotional planning experience. 
This category will round out your buying skills and provide you with a strong skill set to take your next step into a Category Management opportunity, providing a significant opportunity to challenge our current promotional strategies in a category that has strong customer interaction in stores and strong competition in the market place.

At Woolworths, spreading the joy of food to our customers is the reason we do what we do. We live it, we breathe it. Woolworths offers real opportunities for career development, for those who love food and putting a smile on a customer’s face. 

So if you’re someone who leads by example and strives to be better every day, then we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

The primary responsibilities of an Assistant Category Manager will include, however not be limited to:

Strong Buying focus in delivering a market leading ranges across our stores in the complex stationery portfolio with a strong emphasis on promotions and Back to school events Create and develop end to end promotional strategy / plan with data-backed customer insights and through negotiations with suppliers Drive Sales, profit and market share improvement through developing and executing strategic category initiatives and promotional effectiveness Invest time with Category Manager and suppliers in stores conducting competitor analysis through store visits and develop strategies for growth  Working with Food Co Asia to build and develop new ranges  Identify new opportunities that are better for the customer and easier for our store teams to execute Understand supplier base capability and constantly identify opportunities and seek and nurture new supplier relationships which will deliver long term competitive advantage for Woolworths Support the development of other team members

About You

We are looking for our next commercial manager with the following skills and experience:

Previous buying / ACM experience in FMCG/Retail environment Experienced in planning a strong promotional program to maximise sales and profit opportunities A track record in using customer insights and data to make strategic and commercial business decisions Strong supplier engagement and negotiation skills Wanting to learn and apply strategic category management skills  A proven track record of sound commercial acumen Be customer centric and able to develop a customer focused promotional plan Demonstrated the ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and external stakeholders An innovation and continuous improvement focused mentality Strong verbal and written communication skills Proven ability of delivering against KPIs within previous roles Support and develop other team members through cross pollination of strengths 

 
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