Commercial Manager

Deliver results through strategic and transformative reporting for the respective business lines while implementing key strategic and transformational initiatives to accelerate business performance across Motion’s businesses.

Position Responsibilities:

- ** Actionable insights reporting**: Building an advanced analytical decision support capability to support both strategic and tactical decisions,
- ** Strategy and transformation**: Partnering in solving Motion’s business challenges through effective problem-solving, identifying opportunities and translating recommendations into execution plans,
- ** Bringing clarity across budgeting and forecasting**:Building and owning the planning and forecasting framework across the state and business lines,
- ** Managing and navigating ambiguity**: Gather information and context from stakeholders, simplify the insights, provide accurate business performance updates and develop recommendations to overcome market and business volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity,
- ** Deliver value**: Continuously evaluate opportunities for enhancement of systems and process capabilities to maximise effectiveness and ensure seamless accurate reporting rhythm,
- ** Decision Support**: Manage ongoing analytics requirements for Leadership teams, General Manager Finance and Head of Commercial Finance,
- Build strong network with the sales and operational teams, empower and improve financial capability among non-finance members to drive ownership,
- Coaching and supporting the wider commercial and Finance team.

**Required Skills & Experience**:

- Commercial / Analytical background - experience handling and analysing complex, high volume data with great attention to detail,
- The ability to think beyond numbers and combine data with strategy and financial insights,
- Be able to distil information in a creative and visual manner so that it is digestible to both finance and non-finance partners,
- Self-motivated, results oriented with the ability to perform under pressure in a changing business environment with the willingness to get their hands dirty,
- Experience in identifying and implementing process improvement initiatives to improve insights reporting and drive business performance,
- Proven modelling skills, excellent Excel user, experience with other systems such as PowerBI, TM1, etc, would be beneficial,
- Strong people management skills.

**Why Us?**
- Unlimited access to webinars, training events and courses; we promote a culture of continuous learning and assisting you to reach your full potentials.
- Recognition programs and incentives for your performance
- Excellent work environment and team culture
- Access to attractive retail discount and earn cashback.
- 1 paid Volunteer Leave Day per calendar year
- Parental leave top-up allowance
- Employee Assistance Program with access to mental health and well-being support initiatives including confidential counselling services.

**About Us**
Motion Australia is the leader in the distribution of Bearings, Power Transmission, Driveshafts, Hose & Fittings, services and repairs, and industrial supplies to engineering, mining, transport, defence, manufacturers, civil infrastructure, and the trades, serviced by our 70 plus strategically located Branches around Australia.

Motion is part of a Global family with operations across Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, North America and Europe.

GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.