Are you looking for an opportunity to further your analytical skills & ability to communicate a compelling story and build great relationships? If so, this might be the ideal role for you!
1. Be an advocate for the use of data insights
2. Support the delivery of tailored stores through data-driven space management
3. Work with a team that supports growth and career development
About Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group is a food and everyday needs retailer united by the shared purpose of creating better experiences together for a better tomorrow. With more than 1,400 stores across its Woolworths Supermarkets, Countdown Supermarkets (New Zealand) and BIG W brands, and fast-growing eCommerce businesses, Woolworths Group is Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailer. A top 10 company on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Woolworths Group employs more than 180,000 team members and serves more than 20 million customers a week.
About the Opportunity
As a Macro Space Analyst, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of high-impact strategic projects, analysing complex business problems to help deliver a differentiated offer for our customers and inform our range and space strategy.
You will;
4. Collaborate with relevant commercial partner s (ie: Analysts, Leads, Category Managers) & key strategic stakeholders (ie: Head Of, Managers, etc) to derive data-led insights, providing recommendations to influence our range & space strategy
5. Identify strategic opportunities through structured analysis and problem solving across different areas; with consideration for individual store requirements, customer behaviour, market trends, category performance, pricing & ranging dynamics
6. Understand the advanced analytics of our space optimisation tools, ensuring that proposed space recommendations not only improve the customer experience, but enable the greatest commercial & strategic outcome
7. Identify continuous improvement opportunities that will drive our customer experiences and deliver our commercial strategy through space optimisation
8. Support our Macro Space Optimisation squad to enable the delivery of key outcomes & recommendations across strategic programs, where high range and space complexity exists
9. Extract data to collate actionable insights across all relevant GCP databases (ie: SAP, Blue Yonder, Shopper Intelligence, Quantium, Buying Insight) to provide recommendations that influence key strategic pillars
10. Be proactive in information gathering and driving strategic conversations. Formulate and inform opportunities which will support the commercial and macro space teams decisions
About You
As a Macro Space Analyst, you are;
11. Passionate about creating a great customer experience
12. Curious to understand customer behaviour and its links to commercial and space optimisation outcomes, with an ability to operate within ambiguity
13. An analytical thinker, with capability of breaking information into component parts, patterns and relationships
14. Capable of interpreting data to derive actionable insights for both short and long-term strategies
15. Proactive in stakeholder management, with a track record of building relationships and networking
16. A confident communicator and storyteller; with strong visualisation, verbal and written skills
17. Able to attend regular store visits within Woolworths and competitor supermarkets (as well as broader market place) in conjunction with broader Macro Space team to understand market trends and opportunities
You have;
18. A high attention to detail, with a results-oriented mindset
19. A high level of proficiency in SQL (GCP), with an ability to extract data through basic queries
20. An ability to manipulate data in SQL to derive insight (CASE statements, PARTITION BY statements etc)
21. A proficient understanding of Google Sheets, with confidence in range of intermediate functions (eg: pivot tables, formulas, conditional formatting) to draw insight into potential recommendations
22. Desire to learn more about data analysis tools including SQL to optimise and automate data outputs to drive better decision making
23. Curiosity & self-sufficiency to dive into & understand agency datasets Quantium, Nielsen, Shopper Intelligence, IRI or equivalent datasets
If you