• Collaborate with Buying teams to fulfil our customer commitment
• Hybrid working, office based at Norwest
• 12 month fixed term opportunity

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
• Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you
• 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
• Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc

Part of the Range and Better Buying team, this role is responsible for partnering across the commercial (buying) teams to deliver on refreshed category plans, improved financials through COGS negotiation support and driving strategic initiatives to deliver on our customer promise., Successful delivery in this role will be underpinned by effectively leveraging our data to create insights to inform and reshape our customer offer and drive growth, identifying and generating opportunities for value creation with suppliers.

This role is part of the Commercial Excellence function, newly created this year to enable our commercial teams to optimise commercial operations and drive revenue growth and profitability. On a day-to-day basis, you will be expected to:

• Partner with Category Managers, Merch Planners and other key stakeholders in the creation of data led insights, providing recommendations on category strategy and influencing cross functionally to land customer first results
• Develop our supplier engagement approach to maximise collaboration and value creation
• 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 category strategy, with an articulation of available levers in supplier negotiation
• Supporting and influencing category teams in cost and supplier negotiations