Category Development Analyst

at  Woolworths

CATEGORY DEVELOPMENT ANALYST

• End-to-end delivery of customer-focused category plans and range reviews: This includes developing, implementing, and monitoring category plans and range reviews to ensure they meet customer needs and drive business growth.
• Driving continuous improvement: The analyst will identify and implement opportunities to improve category performance, including efficiency, profitability, and customer satisfaction.Providing analytical support: This includes developing and delivering insights, reports, and recommendations to support category managers in making informed decisions.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

Our Team Members are at the heart of everything we do and we’re always looking for ways to support your career journey and reward great work:

• A progressive and flexible ‘work from anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• High impact role supporting our teams who enrich our communities.

• A range of programs to help you prioritise and manage your wellbeing, including 24/7 access to the Sonder app.A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Category Development Analyst is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of customer-focused category plans and range reviews for our Category Managers, driving continuous improvement while providing analytical support including developing business improvement opportunities and generating proactive & actionable insights.

• Partner with Category Managers by deriving data led insights, providing recommendations on category strategy and influencing to land customer first results
• Identify category opportunities through structured analysis and problem solving across different areas; including customer behaviour, market trends, category performance, pricing, supplier dynamics
• Incorporate strategic insights from qualitative and quantitative consumer and category research into ranging decisions
• Use analytical tools to drive insights; including category segmentation, clustering, range performance and product optimisation

• Consult and collaborate confidently with stakeholders across the business to achieve desired outcomesDemonstrating continuous improvement and evolving category development process in line with the company’s strategic objectives

With a strong understanding of retail through experience as a Retailer, Supplier, or Consultant with one of the leading Consultancy firms, you will bring to the role a track record in demonstrating stakeholder management and influencing skills, alongside strong analytical skills and high attention to detail.

• Curious to understand customer behaviour and its links to commercial outcomes
• Understanding of business implications of range & space strategy recommendations, including commercial & operational impacts
• Clear analytical thinking, with capability of breaking information into component parts, patterns and relationships
• Capable of interpreting data and deriving actionable insights for short and long term strategies
• A track record in demonstrating stakeholder management and networking to build working relationships to deliver results
• Able to challenge effectively and demonstrate resilience
• Confident communicator and storyteller; with strong visualisation, verbal and written skills
• An agile worker with the ability to work as part of a team but also independently where requiredAdvanced Excel functions e.g. pivot tables, formulas and conditional formatting; with basic SQL skills a plu