Category Management Specialist

4 weeks ago


Macquarie Park, Australia Metcash Full time

At Metcash, you're part of a dynamic team that drives category growth and profitability. As a Category Coordinator, you'll collaborate with the Category Manager to craft and execute a shopper-led, channel-specific trade plan. Your expertise will be pivotal in managing product lifecycles, pricing strategies, promotions, and more.

About the Opportunity

We're seeking a skilled Category Coordinator to support our Category Manager in driving improvements in COGS and meeting retail sales and income goals. Your strong commercial acumen, customer focus, and ability to translate category and shopper insights into actionable plans will be essential in this role.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Category Manager to develop and execute category plans.
  • Support Trading Managers with daily sourcing, pricing, promotions, costing, and supplier management activities.
  • Ensure all paperwork, including promotions, new lines, deletions, supplier changes, and price changes, is processed timely and accurately through MDG.
  • Provide MDG with validated pricing and new line data.
  • Manage category promotions using MetProms.
  • Analyze and offer insights into sales and income opportunities, benefiting both Metcash and retailers by understanding suppliers and competitors.

You'll Thrive in This Role If

  • You have experience or a strong understanding of retail and/or FMCG.
  • You're proficient in data and analytics tools like Excel, Power BI, and Circana.
  • You have knowledge of Category Management, 4P principles, and basic negotiation skills.
  • You can translate category and shopper insights into actionable plans.
  • You have strong commercial acumen, customer focus, and a proven track record of delivering priorities under pressure.

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".



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