Buying Chapter Member

Company Description

The Warehouse is the brand that began it all. Founded in 1982 by Sir Stephen Tindall, the first ‘red shed’ challenged established retailers and proved popular with customers as a result of its simple style, and wide range of products at bargain prices. The Warehouse has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand.

Our purpose at The Warehouse Group (TWG) is ‘Helping Kiwis live better every day.” As a company, we’re continuing our innovation and agile journey - with bold new ways of moving forward, empowering teams and with more effective collaboration and communication, we have our customers top of mind and work purposefully together, “Helping Kiwis live better every day”.

**Job Description**:
Our Food & Grocery division has gone from strength to strength, with growth in sales and increased product offering and we currently have a great opportunity for an experienced and commercial FMCG Buyer/Category Manager (Buying Chapter Member) to join this exciting, high performing team.

To be successful in this position, you’re someone who understands how to create a compelling range using a mix of data and creativity - you back your range decisions with facts and strong shopper and customer insights and work collaboratively to bring this to life.

This role is critical to our success and your key responsibilities are complex and exciting You will have the opportunity to truly make and influence decisions that create value for our customers and drive commercial results.

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Deliver a range assortment, shelf opportunities and promotional activations that speak to our customers
- Commercial planning and delivery of activations for new products
- Deliver sales, margin, and stock results to budget
- Working cross-functionally to develop and implement the strategic direction of your category
- Work closely with sourcing and suppliers to meet our customers’ needs

**Qualifications**:
Highly commercial, insightful and decisive in your thinking, you are passionate about your craft and have an innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ to provide the best products for our customers. You will have a proven understanding of the FMCG market and the process from source to shelf, be resilient and adaptable enough to quickly react to the rapid and ever-changing shopping environment.

Excellent stakeholder management and communications skills will be essentials to unlock collaboration, productivity and speed to market - this is key to our agile way of working Your drive to contribute whilst taking ownership means you work effectively, both independently and collaboratively to deliver your best work and commercial results for the business.

Here's a check list of the track record and experience we are looking for:

- Solid **category management** experience within retail, and ideally grocery and FMCG
- Experience **developing branded and** **own brand** categories
- Strong **commercial acumen, negotiation and analytical skills**:

- A **customer driven** focus.
- The **ability to trade** utilising promotional activity and advertising to maximum effect
- ** Collaborative working style **and excellent** communicator** with strong **stakeholder management** skills
- ** Decisiveness** in a fast-moving environment as well as a **resilient** and **driven** nature

Additional Information

We offer a dynamic, flexible and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. The business is at an exciting point in its life story By empowering our teams and increasing cross-collaboration, we aim to make TWG New Zealand’s best place to work