Commercial Trading Partner

At Metcash, you’re part of something bigger. You have all the perks of a small business heart, without missing out on the big business support.

Being part of something bigger means you’re part of a strong purpose, where the work you do makes a big difference to independent business and local communities. It opens a sea of opportunities to develop yourself, grow your career, thrive your way and make your mark. And you’ll be part of our high performing team, where you reap the rewards of our collective success now and into the future.

About the Opportunity

Elevate Fresh Trading Performance: Drive commercial insight and decision support for the Commercial Trading Manager – Fresh. This role is dedicated to maximizing Trading performance, pinpointing financial opportunities, and mitigating risks. By delivering actionable analysis and information, empower trading teams to achieve their objectives with precision and impact.

In this Role

• Assist Head of Trade - Fresh in managing commercial affairs for the Fresh department.
• Provide necessary information to facilitate supplier negotiations, including JBPs and Trading Terms.
• Collaborate with States/Channel and Trading teams to prepare budgets, forecasts, and KPIs.
• Conduct trend analysis and assess KPI variances across Trading departments and Channels, including Retail and Wholesale Sales, Category/Channel Income performance, Inventory management, and Direct market analysis.
• Prepare supplier performance assessments and provide general commercial support, including decision pricing support and investment. Additionally, assist in auditing/back claiming missing income when required and support the broader National Commercial team as needed.

You’re Likely a Match If you have

• Accounting degree or similar
• Strong business partnering and influencing skills that build partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Broad understanding of category management principles and processes
• Ability to translate insights into recommendations and action plans
• Ability to prioritize tasks and manage stakeholder requirements
• Advanced excel, Power BI
• Strong financial modelling and system skills

Life at Metcash

🌈 Experience a supportive and flexible work environment. We are a FlexReady accredited workplace!

🌟 Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave every year after your first year.

🌿 Benefit from 2 well-being days and 1 volunteer day annually.

🌐 An abundance of learning, development, and career growth opportunities.

💼 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave for primary carers.

🏆 Proudly awarded the “Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion”.

🌍 Recognized as the 74th in the "Equileap Top 100" globally for initiatives on gender equity.

🥇 Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia.

💸 Incredible value discounts and perks through our team member app, “Our Local”.

About Us

Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with revenue 1 exceeding $18 billion in FY23. We’re also an ASX top 100 listed company.

We believe that it is absolutely vital to Australia that there is a sustainable, independent, family-owned business sector. Independent retailers support their local communities. We help them to be the ‘Best Store in Their Town’ by providing merchandising, operational and marketing support across our food, liquor and hardware pillars.

We're dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in our workplace and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Joining our team means becoming part of something bigger, a company that actively promotes diversity, champions charitable causes, and supports environmental efforts. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, including First Nations. If you have any specific support or access needs, please don't hesitate to inform us when you apply. Rest assured; your personal information will be handled with the utmost confidentiality in accordance with applicable privacy laws.

Join us and become part of something bigger!

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