Ready to make an impact?
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.

What you'll do
Our new Assistant Category Manager in this fixed term maternity leave cover role will be accountable for driving the buying and merchandising processes across a broad range of products we offer to Woolworths consumers. The key to this role will be managing effective relationships with vendors and negotiating with them as well as developing and procuring the right products to drive our business in line with our Category merchandise needs and strategic objectives.

What you’ll bring
This role will suit someone with some retail based experience, ideally from within FMCG and who will have a desire to hit the ground running. You will have good commercial acumen and previous experience driving new or challenged business initiatives within Woolworths with a proven track record of engaging and influencing key stakeholders of the business.

Some of your new responsibilities will be:

Delivering customer focused strategy through effective management of product, price, promotion and placement
Maintaining awareness of product trends, availability, and customer preferences
Understanding of buying and selling patterns, impacts on the category
Maintaining high level relationships with vendors and partners
Collaborating across functions to ensure efficient, on time delivery of products
Developing longer-term plans and recommendations across products/categories
Managing and controlling sales to budget
Assist in Category reviews and buying projects

Our Benefits

Genuine flexibility in how and where you work
Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities
Grocery discount card and discounted online shopping delivery
Banking and insurance (health, life etc) discounts
Global and local career opportunities

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.

We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

Assistant Category Manager

Woolworths New Zealand

Assistant Category Manager

Woolworths New Zealand

Auckland

Woolworths New Zealand

Assistant Category Manager

Location

Job Description

Soft Skills Required

Benefits and Perks

Job Schedule

Assistant Category Manager

Woolworths New Zealand

Assistant Category Manager

Woolworths New Zealand

Auckland

Woolworths New Zealand

Assistant Category Manager

Location

Job Description

Soft Skills Required

Benefits and Perks

Job Schedule

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