Woolworths Recruits Promotional Planner

Main Purpose

Plan, co-ordinate and effectively communicate trading activities for the Foods Group and post these event/s, to provide detailed analysis to ensure continuous learning & improvement. In conjunction with category planning, develop and agree promotions / campaigns, and ensure effective execution of promotional policy..

Key Responsibilities

• Implement sustainable foods promotional practises and procedures
• Co-ordination of effort across the foods business of regular foods promotions
• Identification, scaling and prioritisation of meaningful selling occasions and events
• Conduct adhoc studies and scrutiny of new opportunities / potential
• Develop strong and productive relationship with the Planning and Marketing teams
• Creation and co-ordination of Foods trading calendar
• Creation and co-ordination of Foods of Foods promotional plan
• Proactive & advance creation of weekly trade plans
• Evaluate, analyse and record promotions
• Contribute towards maximising selling opportunities within the selling teams to ensure that all sales opportunities are maximised

Key Competencies

Technical Skills:

• Retail Business Management related Degree/diploma
• Minimum 3-5 years retail / commercial and stores experience (preferably in Foods)
• Minimum 2years Planning experience (preferably across different areas in Foods)
• In-depth business and commercial understanding and good process/system skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret financial indicators and can set and manage promotional budgets
• Able to conduct promotional cost benefit analysis and to understand causes of problems and develop workable solutions
• Able to gather, analyse and assess relevant information of past, current or future events, trends or situations and to make informed business decisions
• Fully computer literate i.e. advanced Excel, data mining, spreadsheet analysis

Behavioural Skills:

• Personal effectiveness
• Passion for the brand and customers
• Leading transformation
• Thinking strategically and commercially
• Connecting people
• Delivering high performance
• Having an innovative merchant mindset
• Making insightful business decisions
• Driving quality
• Planning & Organising ability

How to Apply

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Apply online before 17/11/2014.
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