Role Purpose:
A Category Manager focuses on improving and enhancing our customers perceptions of our value, quality, and range and is responsible for managing all aspects of Product, Price, Promotions, Placement and Own Brand penetration. The successful candidate will coach, lead and develop their team as well as delivers targets on sales growth, profitability and market share. In addition, a Category Manager is required to possess the ability to work collaboratively across many different teams within the business.
What am I accountable to deliver?
- Identifying and developing ranges
- Competitive Price in the market
- Sourcing products
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Developing successful category plans
- Determining both local and overseas product trends and converting these into sales
- Ensuring all products meet legal and statutory obligations
- Designing promotional programs to maximise sales
- Ensuring the product mix achieves the department's financial objectives
- Resolve customer and store issues promptly and effectively
What knowledge/skills do I need to be successful?
- Proven buying experience at a Category Manager level, in a large supermarket/ FMCG environment or have
been identified as a high performing Assistant Category Manager ready for their first Category
Management appointment
- Success in developing and executing a clear customer focused Category Plan that is aligned to the
overarching divisional strategy and based on sound commercial insights / data
- A strong background and demonstrated ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and
external stakeholders at all levels across the business
- The ability to become an industry expert in the field of responsibility within Australia
- A passion for product and product development and at the forefront of innovation and continuous
improvement
- A reputation as an outstanding leader, influencer and deliverer of exceptional results
- Ability to coach and develop a high performing category team and develop a culture where the customer
is the focus and at the centre of all decisions made.
- Willingness to learn, collaborate with the wider team and adapt with changing conditions
- Highly organised and capable of juggling multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong commercial acumen and proficient with excel and google environment
- Skilled professional with passion for customers
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Someone who can demonstrate the Woolworths values and ways of working
Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do. We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference. We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing. We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most
importantly, we're all about creating better experiences -for our customers and for each other.
A Category Manager focuses on improving and enhancing our customers perceptions of our value, quality, and range and is responsible for managing all aspects of Product, Price, Promotions, Placement and Own Brand penetration. The successful candidate will coach, lead and develop their team as well as delivers targets on sales growth, profitability and market share. In addition, a Category Manager is required to possess the ability to work collaboratively across many different teams within the business.
What am I accountable to deliver?
- Identifying and developing ranges
- Competitive Price in the market
- Sourcing products
- Negotiating with suppliers
- Developing successful category plans
- Determining both local and overseas product trends and converting these into sales
- Ensuring all products meet legal and statutory obligations
- Designing promotional programs to maximise sales
- Ensuring the product mix achieves the department's financial objectives
- Resolve customer and store issues promptly and effectively
What knowledge/skills do I need to be successful?
- Proven buying experience at a Category Manager level, in a large supermarket/ FMCG environment or have
been identified as a high performing Assistant Category Manager ready for their first Category
Management appointment
- Success in developing and executing a clear customer focused Category Plan that is aligned to the
overarching divisional strategy and based on sound commercial insights / data
- A strong background and demonstrated ability to negotiate and influence with cross functional and
external stakeholders at all levels across the business
- The ability to become an industry expert in the field of responsibility within Australia
- A passion for product and product development and at the forefront of innovation and continuous
improvement
- A reputation as an outstanding leader, influencer and deliverer of exceptional results
- Ability to coach and develop a high performing category team and develop a culture where the customer
is the focus and at the centre of all decisions made.
- Willingness to learn, collaborate with the wider team and adapt with changing conditions
- Highly organised and capable of juggling multiple priorities simultaneously
- Strong commercial acumen and proficient with excel and google environment
- Skilled professional with passion for customers
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Someone who can demonstrate the Woolworths values and ways of working
Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do. We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference. We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing. We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most
importantly, we're all about creating better experiences -for our customers and for each other.
