Metcash

Category Manager

Metcash

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Heatherton • 🇦🇺 Australia

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Driving the performance of your category — using smart planning, great relationships, and commercial instinct to hit targets and grow the business
  • Staying across trends, analysing the competitor landscape, and spotting opportunities before anyone else does
  • Building strong, collaborative partnerships with key suppliers — negotiating pricing, terms, promotions, and new product opportunities that benefit everyone
  • Owning the promotional marketing plan for your category, ensuring our brands stand out and our stores have what they need to succeed
  • Working with suppliers to develop and deliver effective training programs
  • Supporting our Independent Hardware Group stores with data-driven insights, category plans, and practical advice to help improve their performance
  • Developing customer-focused, competitive ranging and assortment plans that look great on paper and perform even better in store
  • Spending time in store (and in competitor stores!) to understand what’s working, what’s not, and where we can improve
  • Managing inventory to ensure stock efficiency, product availability, and maximum sales opportunities
  • Doing business the right way — fair, ethical, respectful, and always balancing the needs of the supplier, the company, and our members

Requirements

  • Strong communication skills and experience in category management, planning, and ranging
  • A commercial mindset with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
  • Advanced analytical skills — you turn numbers into insights and insights into action
  • Confidence in negotiations and relationship management
  • Solid understanding of merchandising, supplier management, and product ranging
  • Strong MS Office skills
  • A proactive, energetic, resilient attitude — you’re the kind of person who gets things done
  • A flexible, can-do mindset (non-negotiable!)
Benefits
  • Extra Leave: Enjoy a 5th week of annual leave, 2 well-being days, plus 1 volunteer day annually
  • Career Growth: Endless learning and development opportunities
  • Parental Leave: 12 weeks of gender-neutral paid leave for primary carers
  • Inclusive Culture: Bronze Employer for LGBTQ Inclusion
  • Neutral Pay Gap: Gender pay gap under 5% (WGEA 2024–2025)
  • Mental Health: Gold accreditation by Mental Health Australia
  • Flexibility: Flex Ready and Family Friendly Workplace accredited

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
category managementplanningranginganalytical skillsmerchandisingsupplier managementproduct ranginginventory managementdata-driven insightspromotional marketing
Soft skills
communication skillscommercial mindsetnegotiationrelationship managementproactive attitudeenergetic attituderesilient attitudeflexible mindsetcollaborative partnershipsability to juggle multiple priorities