Sales Planning Analyst

Woolworths Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sonder financial & wellbeing support

Generous leave policy

Team discounts

Salary Sacrifice programs

Job summary

Woolworths Group is seeking a Sales Planning Analyst in a hybrid Sydney role. You will forecast store-level sales, manage seasonality effects, and influence store and business outcomes using data-driven insights. Collaboration with diverse stakeholders and experience with SAP/JDA is highly valued.

You will join a team within our Group Replenishment function, focused on ensuring stock accuracy and optimal availability across our Australian retail network.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience with SAP & JDA products along with technical systems skills (e.g. SQL) or the ability to learn them.
• Strong understanding of customer behaviour, retail, supply chain, or FMCG, or strong aptitude to learn.

Responsibilities

• Maintain weekly/daily forecasts at store level across multiple divisions using forecasting methods.
• Provide actionable insights within forecasting systems for major events, promotions and seasonality.
• Support stores and customers by investigating stock unavailability at the store level.
• Provide clear insights to assist queries from stakeholders across the business.

Skills

Strong communication

SAP

JDA

SQL or coding

Retail and supply chain knowledge

Tools

SAP

JDA

SQL

Job description

• Hybrid working model 3days in Bella Vista 2 days WFH
• Join a customer-obsessed technology business at the heart of Australia's largest retailer
• Opportunity to work within a team that supports growth and career development
• 12 month secondment opportunity

We are Woolworths Group

We are Woolworths Group. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts, and unique perspectives across Australia and New Zealand. Connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow'. That Purpose fuels our ambition 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.

If you're excited to turn today's blue-sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive, and empowering workplace. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work, and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Our Group Replenishment team helps make sure the right stock is in the right place at the right time. Working across our retail businesses, the team use sales data, customer trends and commercial insights to forecast demand and support smarter stock decisions.

What You’ll Do

As a Sales Planning Analyst, you will be responsible for ensuring that store sales forecasts accurately predict the purchasing behaviours of customers. You will proactively manage sales forecasts to ensure that all future events and seasonality impacts are accounted for, making certain that forecasting methodologies are expertly applied. The Sales Planning Analyst plays a key part in influencing sales and operational outcomes for Australia.

• Accurately maintain weekly/daily forecasts on products at a store level, across multiple divisions, using forecasting methodologies
• Using available data, provide actionable insights within the forecasting systems, for major events, promotions, and seasonality
• Support stores and customers, by investigating the unavailability of stock at the store level
• Provide detailed and clear insights to assist queries from various stakeholders within the business

What You’ll Bring

• Excellent communication skills and an ability to work with and manage a wide variety of stakeholders
• Experience working with various software systems such as SAP & JDA products along with technical systems skills (e.g. SQL coding language, or other coding languages, experience working with algorithms) or capability to learn some of these
• Have a strong understanding of customer behaviour & Retail, Supply chain, or FMCG or has a very keen interest or aptitude to learn

What You’ll Experience

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!

A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.

• Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
• Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

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. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential. 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.

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