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Assistant Category Manager - Pet

Posted on March 11, 2025

Auckland City, New Zealand
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Full Time

Ready to make an impact? We are!

We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’ Here you’ll be supported and empowered 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. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

Our new Assistant Category Manager role will be accountable for driving the buying and merchandising processes across a broad range of products in the Pet portfolio we offer to Woolworths consumers. The key to this role will be managing effective relationships with vendors and negotiating with them as well as developing and procuring the right products to drive our business in line with our Category merchandise needs and strategic objectives.

About You | Mōu

This role will suit someone with some retail based experience, ideally from within FMCG and who will have a desire to hit the ground running. You will have good commercial acumen and previous experience driving new or challenged business initiatives within Woolworths with a proven track record of engaging and influencing key stakeholders of the business.

Some of your new responsibilities will be:

Delivering customer focused strategy through effective management of product, price, promotion and placement
Maintaining awareness of product trends, availability, and customer preferences
Understanding of buying and selling patterns, impacts on the category
Maintaining high level relationships with vendors and partners
Collaborating across functions to ensure efficient, on time delivery of products
Developing longer-term plans and recommendations across products/categories
Managing and controlling sales to budget
Assist in Category reviews and buying projects

Our Benefits | To Tatou Painga

As a Woolworths team member you will receive a generous salary as well as:

Supportive team environment
Ongoing development within an ANZ team and access to COE/specialist career opportunities
Global and local career opportunities
Grocery discount card - 5 -10% off your groceries!
Half price online delivery and free online delivery for new parents
Employee Assistance Program
Discounts on health insurance, dental, optometrists, gym memberships, JB Hi-Fi, PB tech and many more!
Samsung partnership - AMAZING discounts

Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ

With over 185 stores and 20,000 team members across Aotearoa, we've made it our mission to make Kiwi lives a little better every day.

We're friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you'll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.

Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai

We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou

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