Own & Exclusive Brands Buyer - Woolworths Food Company (10 month secondment)

at  Woolworths Food Company

WE ARE WOOLWORTHS GROUP

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow’. That Purpose fuels our ambition 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.
If you’re excited to turn today’s blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you’ll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
• A progressive and flexible ‘Work from Anywhere’ policy that gives you more control over your work, life and wellbeing.*Parental Leave provision - applies to permanent team members, and excludes casual team Members, fixed term team members and contractors.

• Work with a wide variety of stakeholders from both within the business and with our supply base and must therefore possess excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and problem-solving skills.
• Develop an intimate knowledge of our products and our customer, as well as the ability to stay on top of category trends, technologies, innovation, competition and supplier capability within food & non-food categories
• Maintain intimate knowledge of sales and GP performance of categories by SKU & Negotiate contracts on existing and new product portfolio.
• Deliver COGS reductions across the respective categories without impacting quality, through ensuring better buying and working collaboratively with our suppliers.Understand supply base capability and identify opportunities to nurture new supplier relationships to deliver long-term competitive advantage.