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
We have an exciting opportunity to join Metcash as a Category Manager. The role of Category Manager will plan, build and deliver a shopper led channel specific trade plan, utilising industry knowledge to source and negotiate the best deals with national and local suppliers. Ensuring an competitive value proposition and promotional schedule to service our retailers. Drive innovation and differentiation in products and range, and own and manage supplier relationships. Deliver sales per square metre growth for the IGA supermarket network. We have openings across both Pantry & Impulse.
In this Role You will
- Deliver on retail sales and income budget and drive improvements in COGS.
- Develop and deliver category range, pricing and promotional plans that are aligned to the strategic priorities of each channel.
- Be the subject matter expert for the business for category growth strategies, utilising internal and external insights.
- Own and manage all supplier relationships including the supplier profitability to our network (wholesale and retail) by channel, DIFOT, JBP’s, Supplier Engagement.
- Negotiate the best commercial out-come for Retailers and Metcash
- Develop and deliver the category private label strategy.
- Periodic trading performance reviews, making recommendations for performance improvement.
You’re Likely a Match If You Have…
- Strong negotiation skills with demonstrated ability to work with Suppliers for mutual growth
- Previous experience in Category Management including Promotional planning
- Sound knowledge of Shopper and Category trends, having demonstrated your application of these in a similar FMCG environment
- Customer focused and collaborative, who can influence in an internal matrix structure and with external stakeholders
- Commercial Acumen with intimate knowledge of the drivers of success in Category Management
- Proven record of delivering category strategies & plans that are clearly communicated, believed, enabled and delivered
Life at Metcash
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.
Experience a supportive and flexible work environment. We are a Flex Ready accredited workplace!
Thrive where work and family truly co-exist. We are an accredited Family Friendly Workplace.
Proudly awarded “Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion”.
- ️A neutral gender pay gap of under 5% as published by WGEA 2023- 2024
Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia.
Great team member discounts and perks.
About Us
Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with sales of $19.5 billion in FY25. We’re also an ASX top 125 listed company.
We believe that it is 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 be part of something bigger!