Assistant Category Manager
Foodstuffs, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Auckland • 🇳🇿 New Zealand
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Supporting the planning and execution of category strategies that align with our wider business goals
- Managing product, pricing, and promotional admin across your portfolio
- Reviewing performance and identifying opportunities to optimise promotions and pricing
- Building strong relationships with suppliers, stores, and internal teams
- Helping ensure our categories are well-positioned to meet customer needs and deliver commercial results
Requirements
- Experience in ranging, sourcing, pricing and promotion OR similar
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to spot trends and opportunities
- Confidence in negotiating and managing supplier relationships
- Intermediate Excel skills (think XLOOKUPs, pivot tables and analysis)
- Adaptable, eager to learn and self-motivated
- Resilience and adaptability in a fast-moving environment
- A collaborative working style, great communication skills, and a strong work ethic
Benefits
- Free carparking, we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
- Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
- Flexible working options, a day off in your birthday month
- Inhouse learning and development courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
rangingsourcingpricingpromotionanalytical skillsnegotiationExcelXLOOKUPpivot tables
Soft skills
adaptabilityeager to learnself-motivatedresiliencecollaborative working stylecommunication skillsstrong work ethic