At Metcash Food, we're the power behind local business, proudly supplying over 1600 independently owned stores in every corner of Australia and New Zealand. With a range of trusted independent brands like IGA, Foodland and Campbells/C-Store, our stores sit at the heart of their communities, providing locals with the products and homegrown produce they love most.
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced Commercial Trading Partner, Fresh to join our Commercial Food team at Macquarie Park, (NSW).
Support the Commercial Trading Manager - Fresh by providing commercial insight and decision support across the Trading teams. Focused on Trading performance, this role will measure the achievement of KPIs, call out financial opportunities and risks and provide supporting information and analysis to enable fact-based actions for the trading teams to achieve their objectives.
What You'll do
- Supports Head of Trade - Fresh on managing the commercial affairs of Fresh department
- Ensure relevant information is provided to facilitate supplier negotiations
- JBPs, Trading Terms
- Partner States / Channel and Trading teams with the preparation of Budgets, forecasts and KPIs
- Compile trend analysis and KPI variance assessments and commentary across Trading departments and Channels:
- Retail and Wholesale Sales performance
- Category / Channel Income performance (In lieu, deferred and state)
- Inventory management
- Direct market analysis
- Prepare supplier performance assessments.
- GM / commercial support where applicable
- When required, partner Trading terms department to audit/back claim missing income
- Support decision pricing support and investment
- Collectively support the broader National Commercial team as required.
What You'll bring
- Accounting degree or similar
- Industry experience eg. FMCG, Retail or related
- Cross functional liaison and working with diverse groups and stakeholders.
- Working in a changing environment (consumer trends, technology, various data sets)
- Strong business partnering and influencing skills that build partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Broad understanding of category management principles and processes
- Advanced excel, Power BI
- Strong financial modelling and system skills
- Ability to work with complex data and multiple system source points.
What we can offer you
- An extra week of annual leave after your first year as part of our Fifth Week program, and the opportunity to purchase annual leave to help you recharge
- Free on-site parking and access to public transport
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Training opportunities, your personal development is important to us
- Opportunities for career progression
- Added benefits - Wellbeing days, extra leave days just for you, corporate health benefits and more
We're all about celebrating success, and we're proud to be a WGEA Employer of Choice for Equity, an accredited Flex Ready workplace, and a Gold Standard Mental Health First Aid skilled workplace.
The industry is changing, and we need adaptable people who thrive under pressure to build meaningful relationships with our diverse family of independents. So, get stuck into a promising career in a fast-growing industry. Together, we can supply Australia/New Zealand with a better retail future, powered by local communities.
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