Assistant Category Manager

2 weeks ago

Mangere East, New Zealand COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT Full time

Strengthen your ACM exposure in Cooking Needs
- Rewarding role - make a significant impact in this sizeable category
- Bring your strategic lens to this exciting role

**Ready to make an impact? We are**
Countdown is New Zealand’s leading supermarket brand and digital retailer, delivering a product range and prices that equate to exceptional value for over 3 million customers every week. We’re committed to providing our customers with the best fresh, value and convenience, so they’ll enjoy the best overall shopping experience in store or online.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**
Our new Assistant Category Manager - Cooking Needs will be accountable for driving the buying and merchandising processes across a broad range of products we offer to Countdown consumers. Your portfolio will consist of cooking oils, pasta & sauce, rice, noodles, side dishes and also international foods.
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 Countdown and 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 become an expert Category Manager. 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

**Working with Countdown | Te Mahi ki Countdown**
Our purpose is to make Kiwis' 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 | Haere mai rā**
We’re an equal opportunity employer and are committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all.

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