Leah Weckert is a rising star at the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain. Many believe she has the skills for the top job when it is eventually vacated.
Co managing partner John Lydon got a call from then head of Coles Group Ian McLeod in late 2011, his heart sank.
Weckert doesn’t shy away from her ambition. In fact, being a company CEO was on her job list since she was a child. According to the latest UBS Evidence Lab’s grocery price study, which tracks more than 60,000 prices across Coles and rival Woolworths, food inflation in November averaged 9.1 per cent, in line with October, and well above the 8.2 per cent hit in the first quarter.Retail is in Weckert’s blood. She grew up in Adelaide where her father owned a grain and fodder store. The small shop sold hay and live chickens.
“Many things were not opportunities for me. I could barely do sport, and socially it was difficult, so I had to find other ways to find joy,” she says. She adds that because she was treated differently due to her brace, it is her mission to accept every individual for who they are, and find what they can contribute.Her first role at the supermarket chain in 2011 was in merchandising, before she moved to the private label division where she was responsible for sourcing and quality.
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