Category Assistant

At Ampol, we believe in the Power of Us - the extraordinary power of people to connect, act, and make a difference.  

As a leading energy company operating across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and from the United States, our work spans fuel supply, energy solutions, convenience retail, infrastructure, trading and shipping. Every role at Ampol plays a part in something bigger - powering progress for our customers, communities, and people.  

Your career here is yours to shape. We back our people with real opportunities, the tools to grow, and a culture that rewards ownership and initiative. Whether you’re deepening your expertise or taking on something new, we’ll support you to power a career that works for you.  

We’re building a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and valued - because when people are free to be themselves, powerful things happen.

About Retail

Ampol Retail is one of Australia’s largest convenience and fuel networks. We serve millions of customers each year - whether they’re fuelling up, grabbing coffee, or picking up dinner on the go.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. From frontline teams to support roles, we focus on simple, friendly service that makes life easier for our customers - wherever their journey takes them.

About the role

In this 18 month contract, you will support the integration of EG Australia and Ampol Foodary merchandise operations by managing product, pricing, promotional and range changes across key systems. You'll provide administrative and systems support to Category Managers, ensuring data accuracy, process compliance and smooth execution during the transition to the Ampol operating model.

This role plays a key part in protecting sales, margin and supplier income through strong attention to detail, accurate execution and effective coordination across high-volume activities.

Key responsibilities

• Action approved range, product, pricing, promotion, supplier funding and rebate changes across Envoy and StoreBOS.
• Support product creation, amendments, deletions, ranging, price changes and promotional setup in line with approved category plans and governance.
• Complete required system and administrative activities across other merchandise platforms as business and integration requirements evolve.
• Validate instructions, source data and approvals before changes are entered into systems.
• Support Foodary Category Managers and Transitional Category Managers by collating sales, margin, range, pricing, promotion, supplier income and inventory data
• Prepare accurate working files, trackers, summaries and presentation inputs to support category reviews and integration decisions.
• Support the accurate setup, tracking and reconciliation of supplier funding, rebates and promotional income across relevant systems and trackers.

Qualifications & Experience

• Relevant practical experience may be considered in place of formal qualifications.
• Experience in a retail, merchandise, category, systems administration, data or commercial support role.
• Experience in the following:
  • accurately processing product, pricing, promotion, range or supplier information in business systems is highly regarded.
  • working with large data files, multiple stakeholders and competing deadlines.
  • supporting process improvement, system implementation or business integration activity is desirable.

Benefits

• We are flexible. Many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it adds value. 
• We value recognition.  We have an internal recognition platform amplifying the achievements of those who do great work and demonstrate our capabilities and values. 
• Career development and learning opportunities including LinkedIn Learning and other tailored training solutions. 

Want to take your career to the next level? Apply today.  

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