About the Role 

The Pricing Analyst (Strategy) will help define and reshape the future of Customer Value delivery in Australia, delivered in collaboration with a cross-functional team across Buying, Pricing, WooliesX and Wiq. Ultimately ensuring that our Customer Value strategy resonates with Customers, Team & Suppliers, and drives improved traffic, engagement and customer NPS, across all supermarkets channels. 

The role presents an opportunity to be a part of an ever-changing & evolving environment, working side by side with a team of analysts/associates who pride themselves on being trusted business partners to a wide group of stakeholders and are strongly connected to the development and delivery of the strategic direction of the business. This is a high impact role with high impact initiatives and projects, that are directly visible for the executive committee / C-Suite

Key Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

• Framing & structuring problems, gathering and analysing complex data, and developing insights and recommendations  to support the Pricing team’s mandate within the business 
• Supporting the development of high quality, integrated strategic plans and initiatives, that deliver meaningful & tailored value for Customers across all of our pricing and promotions pillars
• Injecting strategic and innovative thinking into solving the issues that the business faces
• Delivering this value creation in strong collaboration with Buying teams, Pricing pillar leaders and across all levels of leadership
• Establishing and working within dynamic parameters to support the business and its objectives within tight timeframes
• Supporting best practice development and capability sharing across the broader Woolworths Group ecosystem, as a centre of Customer Value excellence for the group

About You 
You are a highly motivated, analytical strategy professional, who is looking to accelerate your development journey and gain critical, broader-thinking business experience. You have experience developing & implementing integrated customer & commercial strategies with a strong, demonstrated affinity for structured problem solving, balanced with a pragmatic, outcomes focused mindset. You thrive in a fast paced retail environment and are comfortable with balancing longer term strategic imperatives with day to day, tactical needs of a buying organisation.

Delivering outstanding experiences for both our internal buying teams and supplier partners, you have demonstrated Pricing Strategy & commercial transformation experience, which will enable you to drive fit for purpose business outcomes. 

You maintain a local market and global perspective on emerging trends, and will bring to the role a demonstrated experience supporting the development and coaching of others in their existing roles as well as future career aspirations. You strive to maintain a competitive edge, and pride yourself on your strong influencing skills which enable you to influence teams to drive and adopt innovation and commercial outcomes, balancing long & short term value delivery.
 
Key skills, attributes and desirable experience includes: 

• 3+ years of experience in a strategy consultancy or corporate strategy team; pricing and/or retail experience would be advantageous
• Strong commercial acumen & data analytics skills (a focus on Pricing will be beneficial but not mandatory) who is looking to take on a new challenge
• Able to prioritise, work under pressure, meet deadlines and provide guidance and support to internal stakeholders through effective work planning & structured communication
• Consumer market experience and retail pricing Strategy & commercial transformation experience advantageous
• Superb written and oral communication and the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with middle and senior management stakeholders
• Advanced Excel skills coupled with strong presentation & storytelling skills. Ideally, you are competent with  ETL solutions like SQL, BigQuery, Tableau