**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 rapid-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.
**Category Manager | Seafood | 12 Months Contract
**About the Role
**Are you interested in leading a complex and rewarding portfolio?
**What are we looking for?
**Working collaboratively across many different teams within the business, we’re looking for an experienced Category Manager or equivalent who can coach, lead and develop their team as well as deliver targets on sales growth, profitability and market share.
**What you’ll do**:
- Lead the overall customer and business strategy for the Seafood portfolio with full P&L; category accountability.
- Develop successful category plans, determining both local and overseas product trends and converting these into sales.
- Develop and implement the category strategy, with respect to price, profitability, range & NPD.
- Take accountability for the fiscal performance of the category including forecasting, budgets, and overall performance to KPIs and expectations.
- Develop and manage strong supplier relationships with a varied and diverse supplier base.
**About You**
You have a demonstrated ability to present clearly and succinctly across a variety of communication settings and will bring to the role your ability to lead and motivate a high-performing team. You’re driven by a customer mission and passionate about being part of a team of excellent people. Whatever you love - customer experience, business process, trading, leadership, or data, you’re active in the community that sits around it and you take authorship for what you create.
To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate the following qualities, skills, and experience:
- Success in developing and executing a explicit customer-focused Category Plan that is aligned with the overarching divisional strategy and based on sound commercial insights/data
- A strong background and demonstrated ability to negotiate and influence cross-functional and external stakeholders at all levels across the business
- The ability to become an industry expert in the field of responsibility within Australia
- A passion for product and product development and at the forefront of innovation and continuous improvement
- A reputation as an outstanding leader, influencer and deliverer of exceptional result
- Ability to coach and develop a high-performing category team and develop a culture where the customer is the focus and at the centre of all decisions made.
**Grow with the Group
As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.
We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered. We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage. We are proud to be recognised as a Gold Tier Employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQ+ inclusion and as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
As our Group continues to evolve, innovate and support our communities, we encourage our team members to do the same with their own careers, by providing ongoing opportunities to grow and make a real difference.
We value flexibility, and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.
We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and for each other.
**We’d love to hear from You
Our Talent Acquisition Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Woolworths Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
📌 Category Manager Seafood 12 Month Secondment
🏢 Woolworths
📍 Sydney