John Loader Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for full P&L for “The Cares”, which covers the core non food categories of Woolworths Supermarkets; Beauty, Toiletries, Medicinal, Cleaning, Laundry and Paper Goods, with an annual turnover over $4bn

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for full P&L of the department compromising of 24 Categories including Pet Care one of the largest and most strategically important areas of the Supermarket

Responsible for full P&L of the diverse Health, Beauty and Baby area of Woolworths Supermarkets, covering 19 separate categories and a team of 19. Development of Department and Category strategy, driving a culture of Customer centricity and Supplier partnership

Responsible for full P&L for the Frozen food area of Woolworths Supermarkets. Development of Department strategy including the Customer agenda and driving the change of team culture to become the partner of choice for internal and external Supplier stakeholders

Responsible for the delivery of Customer strategies and Sales and Profit targets for Yoghurt and Snacks categories within the Chiller area of the Woolworths Supermarkets. Development of Category strategy through collaboratively working with stakeholders internally and within the Supplier base

Responsible for the delivery of Customer strategies and Sales and Profit targets for Smallgoods and Eggs categories within Woolworths Supermarkets. Development of Category strategy through collaboratively working with stakeholders internally and within the Supplier base and delivering strategic sourcing review for Eggs providing Suppliers long-term contracts, and for Woolworths improved costs, increased local production and security of supply

Leading a 22 person team using Category Management process and principals to deliver Customer led, commercially savvy category plans to the Buying teams. Taking a lead role in driving positive change within the business through the facilitation of robust strategy development whilst supporting the buying teams through the process and in the development of new capability

Driving positive change through the development of quantitative market and category insights across the Supermarket. Managing a team of 7 to drive innovation and new thinking in the Category Management space by reviewing and recommending broader data sources supporting the Customer Planning teams and the Commercial Buying teams via embedding the usage of market tools. Added responsibility of implementing recommendations coming from Pricing and Promotions project

Running department responsible for strategic planning including annual planning process, corporate revenue and profit forecasting, consumer and shopper insights delivery, price lifecycle management and demand planning across the Asia region. Building capability across the region and driving compelling, insight driven, go-to-market plans. Additional responsibility for digital sales across the region, a key strategic growth pillar for EA.

Responsible for revenue forecasting and demand planning across the region, category strategy planning with retailers and driving price lifecycle management. Working throughout the region to ensure best practice planning techniques are used and consistency of forecast. Additional responsibility of controlling trade spend in Australia and New Zealand

Management of a team of six Account Managers across Melbourne and Sydney, responsible for the delivery of quantitive market research focusing on providing actionable recommendations to clients in areas such as pricing strategy and optimisation, advertising effectiveness and category management.

Responsible for developing category/trade strategy both for internal stakeholders and retail partners to drive long term profitable growth. Driving analytical excellence across the organisation through the provision of insights to be used as part of the annual planning process.

Management, development and implementation of category strategies with key customers; Sainsbury's, Co-Op, Somerfield. Sharing insights and research with internal and external customers.

Management of top-end grocery accounts achieving volume targets through key business indicators. Tesco champion - coordinating regional sales and national account activity.

Point of purchase representation for grocery manufacturers, representing 30 of the top 100 grocery brands in the UK. Accountabilities included management of account objectives, development of in-store relationships and retailer knowledge in order to maximise sales.

A Levels, Business Studies, Media Studies, Information Technology

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