Woolworths

• Key senior role within our Merchandise team
• Looking after our Grocery Food categories
• Great career move - 18 month secondment

Ready to make an impact?
We are now looking for a Category Manager reporting to our Merchandise Manager in our wider team to join us for an 18 month period.  Joining the Buying and Merchandising team is the perfect opportunity to gain additional portfolio experience or to step up in your Category career! We’re a team who thrive on working collaboratively with our suppliers and internal teams to drive strategies and reach our business goals, ensuring we continue to deliver our purpose of making Kiwis lives better everyday.

What you'll do
As a Category Manager, you will be looking after Everyday Needs portfolios. On a daily basis, you will be negotiating with vendors to develop or procure a product and lead the buying and merchandising processes. At the heart of this role we focus on putting our customers, team and suppliers first whilst delivering great solutions around our category strategies through procurement, promotions, price and placement - a challenging but rewarding role and one where you’ll really make a difference in the lives of our customers.

Key accountabilities:

• Identifying the business’s merchandise needs and understanding the buying/selling patterns to be able to provide insight on planning and activities

• Maintain awareness of product trends, availability and customer preferences

• Build strong, productive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders and maintaining these relationships

• Development of strategic plans including recommendations to changes to drive the success of the category

What you’ll bring
To succeed in this role you’ll be highly collaborative, a natural problem solver and commercially driven. You’ll be comfortable in your knowledge and ability to build strong partnerships with our suppliers and have a strong level of financial and commercial acumen. You will need to have category management experience to be successful in the role. 

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.