Micro Space Planner

At Metcash, you’re part of something bigger. We’ve got the heart of a small business with the strength and support of a big business.

When you join Metcash, your work makes a real difference to independent businesses and local communities, empowering you to:

• Grow your career with tailored development programs
• Thrive your way with flexible work options
• Make your mark in a high-performing, values-led team

At Metcash Food, we’re the power behind local business, proudly supplying over 1600 independently owned stores in every corner of Australia and New Zealand. With a range of trusted independent brands like IGA, Foodland and Campbells/C-Store, our stores sit at the heart of their communities, providing locals with the products and homegrown produce they love most.

About the Opportunity

We are currently recruiting a Micro Space Planner to help bring category strategies to life in store and support our independent retailers to perform at their best. This role plays a key part in delivering clear, data‑led planograms that optimise space productivity, enhance the shopper experience, and drive strong commercial outcomes.

If this role sounds like you and you’re passionate about making a real difference for our independent retailers, we’d love to hear from you!

In this Role

• Develop and maintain national and state‑based planograms that optimise product visibility, space productivity, and category performance
• Use consumer, category, and performance insights to identify opportunities that improve shelf productivity, shopper engagement, and sales outcomes
• Provide clear shelf analysis and actionable recommendations that support better space efficiency, customer experience, and retailer profitability
• Partner closely with Category Managers and key Vendor partners to deliver shopper‑focused, strategically aligned, and commercially effective planograms
• Ensure high levels of accuracy, data integrity, and version control across planogram and product systems
• Support category and space planning initiatives including range reviews, store resets, and continuous improvement activities
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities to improve planogram processes, tools, and ways of working

You’re Likely a Match If

• Demonstrated experience using shelf planning applications in a SaaS environment, including Store Clustering, Assortment Optimisation, Space Planning, and Planogram Automation (e.g. SymphonyAI / Blue Yonder)
• Ability to analyse space, range, and sales data to support commercially sound space and assortment decisions
• Strong understanding of retail merchandising and category strategy, and how these translate into effective shelf-level planograms
• Knowledge of retail environments, including store formats, layouts, shopper behaviour, and in-store execution considerations
• Broad category and product knowledge, including seasonal ranging and customer purchasing behaviour
• Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication skills, with high attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset

What’s on offer

We’re proud to offer a workplace that supports your well-being, growth, and belonging:

🏖️ Extra Leave: Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave, 2 well-being days, plus 1 volunteer day annually

📚 Career Growth: Endless learning and development opportunities

👶 Parental Leave: 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid leave for primary carers

🌈 Inclusive Culture: Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion

⚖️ Neutral Pay Gap: Gender pay gap under 5% (WGEA 2024–2025)

🧠 Mental Health: Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia

🏡 Flexibility: Flex Ready and Family Friendly Workplace accredited

About Us

Join us and be part of something bigger!

Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with $19.5 billion in sales (FY25) and a proud spot in the ASX Top 125.

We believe in the power of independent, family-owned businesses to shape vibrant communities. Through our food, liquor, and hardware pillars, we help retailers become the ‘Best Store in Their Town’ by providing merchandising, operational and marketing support.

We’re committed to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability — and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including First Nations. If you need support during the application process, just let us know. Your privacy and dignity are always respected.

This role is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team. We respectfully request that recruitment agencies do not submit profiles or make contact regarding this opportunity. 

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