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Senior category manager - petcare- hawthorn east (melbourne)

Melbourne
Coles
Category Manager
Posted: 29 September
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Senior Category Manager - PetCare, Hawthorn East

About The Team

Our Commercial team is a large, but a close-knit group of trading experts, who are ready to shape the future of Coles. We pride ourselves on the long-lasting supplier relationships we build, the current ideas we develop and how passionately we work to help Australian eat and live better every day. We bring diversity of thought, backgrounds, and experience to every Business Unit across Coles Supermarkets and Liquor.

About The Role

As Senior Category Manager - Petcare, you will have full accountability for the portfolio of products across our business and will develop a winning category strategy to implement across our stores. You will identify growth opportunities within your category and partner with suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver a point of difference for our customer base and increase our share within the market.

- Drive results and performance of your categories
- Work cross-functionally across Marketing, Operations, Transformation and Strategy
- Execute our customer-centric strategy for your categories to shape a legacy for the future
- Drive innovation within the category, working closely with the broader Coles Merchandiseteam
- Build strong relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders, using your negotiation and influencing skills to drive the direction of the category

About You And Your Skills

In this role you will utilise your experience in understanding market share gaps and helping to develop and implement a market-leading plan across this portfolio. A successful candidate will be highly engaged and passionate about the role with well-developed stakeholder management skills.

- Demonstrated Category Management and/or Merchandise experience within a retail workplace
- Outstanding influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills
- Strategic thinking with the ability to operate in a dynamic, customer-driven retail environment
- Proven ability to champion and drive change, generate new and meaningful ideas, and drive continuous improvement
- Strong commercial acumen
- Customer first approach

Please note that applications will close on Tuesday, September 30th.

What’s in it for you?

- Flexible working options – hybrid options to support work-life balance
- Office perks – gym facility, free parking, BBQ area, and more
- Discounts – 5% discount on supermarket and liquor purchases, with additional double discounts at various times
- Recognition – digital platform ‘mythanks’ to give/receive recognition
- Learning and development – career development programs and training
- Paid parental leave – for permanent team members
- Investment in your future – annual team member share plan

About The Recruitment Process

We’re building a gender-equal, diverse, inclusive, and welcoming team. We are committed to a safe and respectful workplace and encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations and gender identities. We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For more information, visit the Our Recruitment Process section of our careers site or email

Job Details

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Employment Type Full time

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Job function: Sales, Strategy/Planning, and Product Management

Industries: Retail

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📌 Senior Category Manager - PetCare- Hawthorn East
🏢 Coles Group
📍 Melbourne

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