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**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.
**Range Optimisation Analyst**
Are you passionate about using data & insights to make a tangible difference? Do you have experience influencing your teams and business partners? If so, this is the ideal role for you
- Play a leading role in tailoring our product offering to every community across Australia
- Be an advocate for the use of customer-focused data and insights in the business Work with a team that supports growth and career development**About the Role**
The purpose of the Category Range Optimisation team is to partner with our Commercial Team to category strategies and achieve the best product range outcomes for our customers, i.e. bring the foods our customers like & want. You will have the opportunity to work on one of the biggest strategic initiatives within the Woolworths business - to deliver a differentiated offer for our customers, leveraging our data and insights to inform how we make physical range and space decisions.
The focus of this role is two-fold:
- Detailed analysis of our product and store trading patterns to identify opportunities to improve our offer through utilising and developing current and future tools, and continuously identify how we can improve the efficiencies of these capabilities to produce these insights. You will work closely with the Commercial, Planning, and Analyst teams and ultimately provide frontline analysis to enable great customer outcomes through our product/category range reviews. Leveraging our industry-leading new capability that produces store-specific ranges and helps pave the way for new processes moving forward.
In addition to this, you will:
- Identify key strategic priorities for our space optimisation program using quantitative and qualitative research
- Work with Category Managers, Planogram Planners, and Merchandise Managers to provide category range recommendations
- Use analytical tools to drive continuous improvement and evolve the ranging process in line with the company's strategic objectives
- Support the development and rollout of new tools and processes within Food Group Produce data & reporting, alongside creating and sharing insights
**We Offer**
- An attractive remuneration package with an incentive
- Opportunity to collaborate with some of the brightest and best minds in Australia
- Training and Education - We pride ourselves on helping you realise your potential and giving you the opportunity to be innovative Unparalleled career opportunities - As our business grows, so do the opportunities for our team members
**About You**
You are currently an experienced Analyst with a passion for customer insights who is looking to take on a new challenge that requires expertise in driving and delivering results.
In addition to being technically proficient, you will have the ability to negotiate and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
You will have:
- Experience in interpreting data and deriving actionable insights to make recommendations for commercial strategies. You are a critical thinker who is able to adapt to new situations, and know-how to maximise value even with limited information and inputs.
- Structured problem-solving skills and logical thought process
- Experience in commercial or retail is beneficial, but not strictly required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- A results-oriented & agile mindset
- Strong Excel proficiency required SQL knowledge preferred
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