Category 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** 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. - 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 - 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** 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. - ️A neutral gender pay gap of under 5% as published by WGEA 2022- 2023 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 1 exceeding $18 billion in FY23. 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. **_Join us and become part of something bigger_** **_#INFLA #_**LI-ER1