Category Development Analyst

4 months ago


Mangere East, New Zealand WWNZ SUPPORT Full time

**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.
- Enable business decisions for one of NZ’s largest FMCG retailers
- Be the trusted advisor within Range and Space processes
- WFH flexibility, supportive team culture & group benefits, Favona based12 month maternity leave cover

**Ready to make an impact?
**Come and join our Merchandise team We play an instrumental role in growing Countdown’s commercial engagement capabilities, providing crucial analysis, trends and insights that enable our Merchandise team to make crucial business decisions and enable us to do what we do best and that is to help make Kiwis’ lives better every day

You’ll be joining a supportive team environment, a bunch who work hard, show up together and encourage flexible working. We are a good bunch.

**About the Role | Mō te Tūranga
**As a Category Development Analyst in this 12 month role, this role will see interpreting data for use in Category Reviews and for other Merchandise projects.

You will also be responsible for:

- Leveraging world class customer Insights and Optimisation capabilities to ensure a data driven approach to category reviews across Merchandise
- Supporting the pace and scale at which the Merchandise team aims to have impact to ensure delivery of quality analysis, presentation materials, insights and ideas in a timely mannerUnderstanding how customers shop and how our stores perform to ensure we have a tailored range that meets the needs of our customers

**About You | Mōu
**To succeed in this role you will bring market research or category analysis experience within retail or an FMCG environment. You’ll be someone with strong MS office skills and the ability to derive and deliver insights for growth from shopper data. A great communicator you will also be a great story teller with the ability to translate these insights to key stakeholders. Some experience using Nielsen, Aztec, Quantium / Dunnhumby or Tableau would be an advantage, but not essential.

If you’re the sort of individual who strives to always do the right thing for customers, team and community then we ought to connect.

**Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ
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. We offer a diverse range of career opportunities across our ecosystem

Countdown
Cartology, Vineonline & CountdownX
Primary Connect
Wholesale Distributors Limited (Fresh Choice)

We are proud to be a Work 180 endorsed employer for all women, view the great work we do **here **.

**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 ta**

**Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group**

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.



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