Category Manager

4 weeks ago

Hawthorn East, Australia Coles Full time

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our Commercial team bring diversity of thought, backgrounds, and experience to every business unit at Coles Supermarkets and Liquor. And we pride ourselves on the partnerships we build, new ideas we develop and how passionately we work on convenient, healthy solutions for our customers.

Categorically, you’ll shape the way our customers shop

We’ve always looked ahead at Coles Group to proudly deliver and delight our customers, every day. We’re planners; we’re up for any challenge. But now? Things have really ramped up. And that includes our ambitions for you.

We want to empower our Category Managers to become master merchants. Excellence will be your standard benchmark in all things merchandising. Supplier relationships will be your pathway to creating a future where you’re helping Australians to eat and live better every day. And initiative will be your success story in how to bring innovation to the table, quite literally.

Fancy jumping on board?

About the team

Our Commercial team is a large, but a close-knit group of trading experts, who are ready to shape the future of Coles. We pride ourselves on the long-lasting supplier relationships we build, the new ideas we develop and how passionately we work to help Australian eat and live better every day.

And the best part? We’re all so different. We bring diversity of thought, backgrounds, and experience to every Business Unit at Coles Supermarkets, and Coles Local. 

About the role

As an Assistant Category OR Category Manager, you’ll relish the chance to create great outcomes for our business and our customers. Confident in your skills, and full of innovative ideas, you’ll take full accountability for your product portfolio.

It’s not just about developing a winning category strategy, but actually shaping our customers’ shopping experience. Using your strategic skills and trading expertise, you’ll identify growth opportunities within your category, deliver a point of difference for our customer base and increase our share within the market. Importantly, you’ll know that the key to all these things relies on rock-solid supplier relationships.

These are huge opportunities, but we’ll make sure you have everything you need to succeed. How? By providing the strategy, technology, internal structures and all the other ingredients you need to succeed.

Now it’s over to you... Here’s what we need from you to be a master merchant. The ability to:

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

About you and your skills

Using your trading expertise and commercial flair, you’ll understand market share gaps and develop and implement a market-leading plan across your portfolio.

You’ll also have:  

  • Demonstrated Category Management, buying or trading 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 and continuous improvement.
  • Strong commercial and financial acumen  
  • Customer- first approach  

Ready to see what you can achieve with all the right ingredients? Categorically, this is where your skills should be.

What’s in it for you?

  • Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
  • Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
  • Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
  • Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
  • Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
  • Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
  • Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email inclusionrecruitment@coles.com.au

Job ID: 138411

Employment Type: Full time

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