State Workforce Planning Manager

Joining the Metcash Family

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

Are you passionate about workforce optimisation, strategic planning, and driving operational efficiencies? Do you have a knack for turning data into actionable workforce strategies?

At Metcash, we are transforming the way we plan, manage, and optimise our front-line workforce. As a State Workforce Planning Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring our Distribution Centres (DCs) operate efficiently, meet labour cost and productivity goals, and create a flexible, high-performing workforce.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence state-wide workforce strategies, implement cutting-edge planning solutions, and drive continuous improvement across our facilities.

In this Role

• Create costed workforce plans to optimise labour allocation, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Contribute to Metcash’s workforce attraction, retention, and scheduling strategy while optimising the mix of permanent, part-time, and casual labour to align with business needs.
• Improve labour planning tools, scheduling systems, and digital self-service platforms while implementing standardised workforce planning guidelines and KPIs.
• Work closely with the national workforce planning team and state operations to ensure standardisation, consistency, and best practice implementation across all DCs.
• Lead testing, rollout, and adoption of new workforce planning initiatives, ensuring seamless integration into existing operations.
• Utilise Power BI, EIM, and analytics tools to track workforce performance, ensuring data accuracy across planning and payroll systems for informed decision-making.

You’re Likely a Match If

• 5+ years of experience in workforce planning, logistics, or operations management in a high-volume, multi-DC environment.
• Proven expertise in workforce scheduling, forecasting, and optimisation tools.
• Strong numerical and analytical skills – proficiency in MS Excel for modelling and forecasting.
• Process-driven mindset – ability to design and improve workforce planning frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management – skilled at collaborating with HR, operations, and finance teams.
• Strong project and change management experience.
• High data literacy, able to interpret complex datasets and turn them into practical workforce solutions.

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 75th in the "Equileap Top 100" globally for initiatives on gender equity.

⚖️A neutral gender pay gap of under 5% as published by WGEA 2023-2024

🥇 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 exceeding $18 billion in FY24. 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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