Lead Category Assistant
Job no: 40006339
Work type: Full Time
Location: Melbourne - South
Ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic category team and play a key role in driving innovation and growth across our product portfolio.
- Work closely with partners and stakeholders to deliver exciting initiatives that make an impact!
- Work with leading brands, drive innovation, and grow your career
- Permanent full-time opportunity, based on-site in Dandenong
Job Title: Lead Category Assistant
Role Details:
We’re looking for a highly motivated Lead Category Assistant to join Visy. In this role, you’ll drive category growth, shape product innovation, and work with dynamic stakeholders to make an impact. This role is primarily operational, with opportunities to contribute to category strategy. You’ll focus on driving process efficiencies within the team while ensuring forward planning to support growth and innovation.
What you'll do:
- Support the Category Manager in planning and delivering category strategies
- Analyse market trends and provide insights to guide decision-making
- Assist with product launches, promotional campaigns, and range reviews
- Keep product and category data accurate and up to date, including specifications and costing
- Collaborate with Demand Planning to improve forecasting and minimise obsolete stock
- Contribute to presentations and meetings on category performance and new initiatives
- Manage key administrative tasks such as item uploads, product submissions, and promotional coordination
What You Will Bring:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Marketing, Business, or similar field (or currently studying)
- Interest in category or product development with some exposure through work experience, internship, or study
- Good analytical skills and confidence using Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, formulas, reporting)
- Strong communication skills and ability to build positive relationships
- High attention to detail and strong organisational skills
- Proactive attitude, eager to learn and contribute to team success
What you’ll love when you join us:
• Sustainability: Contribute to sustainability initiatives that make a difference.
• Supportive Environment: Be part of a team that values safety, respect, and collaboration.
• Career Growth: Opportunities for further training and career advancement within the company
• Lifestyle balance: Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
Visy is powering the circular economy, closing the loop between packaging, remanufacturing and recycling. Over 75 years, we've grown to 7,000 employees and 150 global operations – predominately in Australia and New Zealand.
We believe materials are not recycled until they’ve been made into new products. We collect and sort recyclable materials like paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and metals from households and businesses, and locally remanufacture them back into new, sustainable packaging. From cardboard boxes, water bottles and jam jars to food and beverage cans, we are using recycled content to power Australia and New Zealand’s food and beverage packaging industry.
Ready to make a difference? Apply now and be a key player in shaping our future!
You will be required to meet Visy’s employment criteria which will include a criminal history check.
Visy is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion.
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