Assistant Category Manager

18 hours ago

Mangere East, New Zealand COUNTDOWN NZ SUPPORT Full time

Strengthen your ACM exposure in Merchandise
- 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**
Joining the Merchandise team is the perfect opportunity to take on a large and strategic category - In Store Bakery We’re a team who thrive on working collaboratively with our suppliers and store teams to drive strategies and reach our business goals to ensure we’re continuing to deliver on our purpose of making Kiwis lives better everyday by providing the best range, value and convenience for our customers.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga**
At the heart of this role we focus on putting our customers, team and suppliers first whilst delivering great solutions around our category strategies through procurement, promotions, price and placement initiatives. You will be looking after In Store Bakery. It’s a challenging but rewarding role within our department and one where you’ll play a key part in ensuring we’re continuing to make Kiwis’ lives a little better every day.

**About You | Mōu**
You’ll be a natural problem solver, a mover and shaker within complex and changing environments. You will have some retail based experience, ideally from within FMCG and you will have a desire to become a Category Manager in the future. Your ability to digest data and make insightful, actionable recommendations is paramount. We are looking for someone with tenacity, great analytical skills, personality and influence.

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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