Category Assistant - Deli & Perishables

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• Bring your stores and fresh food experience
• Auckland-based with hybrid working

Ready to make an impact? We are! We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’

Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

About the Role | Mō te Tūranga

This role provides essential support to the Pantry & Freezer buying team, ensuring the right products are available in stores at the right time to meet customer demand and achieve commercial targets. This involves assisting Category Managers with daily buying tasks, problem-solving, and responding to internal and external inquiries, including customer complaints. The role also encompasses managing promotions, maintaining accurate store ranging, and supporting the end-to-end value chain. You’ll play a key role in upholding buying policies and procedures, managing administrative tasks like invoice processing, and ensuring data quality across various systems.

Key Responsibilities

At Woolworths, we\'re committed to providing our customers with the best possible shopping experience. We\'re looking for a talented individual to join our Pantry & Freezer team and contribute to our mission. If you\'re a highly motivated and skilled individual who shares our values of quality, customer satisfaction, and teamwork, we want to hear from you! This role offers the opportunity to develop your skills, build strong relationships, and make a real impact on our business.

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Working with Woolworths NZ

With over 185 stores and 20,000 team members across Aotearoa, we\'ve made it our mission to make Kiwi lives a little better every day. We\'re friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you\'ll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week. We embrace diversity of thought and love to take on challenges with a pragmatic and innovative approach. Our culture thrives on mutual respect, care, curiosity, openness, and a proactive attitude. We continually seek ways to pair, collaborate, support, and learn from each other as a team!

Where to start

Come as you are | Nau mai, whakatau mai. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.

If you’re smart and good at what you do, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou

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