Manager, Strategic & Commercial Planning

Cartology; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cartology, part of the Woolworths Group, seeks a Manager of Strategic & Commercial Planning to drive the sales planning rhythm and ensure reliable revenue. Hybrid role based in Sydney with 2 days working from home, reporting into Cartology leadership and collaborating across Woolworths Group client planning.

You will partner with sales to future-proof businesses through data-led strategy, early risk identification, and proactive planning, surfacing risks before they impact results.

Qualifications

• Strong data accuracy and numeric proficiency.
• Experience in quarterly or cyclical planning environments.
• Ability to lead planning cycles and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with retail media planning processes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Plan and orchestrate the quarterly sales planning cycle with transparent data and minimal manual intervention.
• Identify risks early and drive corrective actions with sales leaders.
• Extend planning beyond the next quarter to future-proof the business with data-led strategy.
• Provide ongoing insights and product ideas to strengthen client conversations and strategies.
• Maintain live governance documents and a single source of truth for performance.
• Represent Cartology in Woolworths Group client planning and align commercial strategies across shared clients.

Skills

Data management

Project management

CRM tools

Tools

CRM planning tools

Job description

Manager, Strategic & Commercial Planning

Manager - Strategic & Commercial Planning

• Join Cartology, the team that’s driving real customer impact in the moments that matter most
• Drive Cartology’s sales planning rhythm to ensure reliable revenue and growth
• Full-time, perm role, based at Surry Hillis with 2 days WFH

We are Cartology

Cartology is one of Australia’s leading retail media businesses, powered by the Woolworths Group. We provide targeted omnichannel marketing solutions and comprehensive closed loop reporting to help FMCG brands grow. With Cartology, brands can drive real customer impact in the moments that matter most, because we get customers.

Cartology is truly pioneering the future of Retail Media, creating, shaping and leading this new industry that connects brands to customers in new and exciting ways.

Be nothing but yourself in a culture that is inclusive and innovative. Work as part of an ambitious, smart and passionate team and belong to something meaningful as part of the Woolworths Group.

What you’ll do

As the Manager - Strategic & Commercial Planning, you drive Cartology’s sales planning rhythm to ensure reliable revenue and growth. You partner with sales leaders to future-proof their businesses through data-led strategy, early risk identification, and proactive planning. By bringing analytical depth and commercial confidence, you remove friction and surface risks ahead of time. Additionally, you serve as Cartology’s voice in Woolworths Group client planning, ensuring aligned commercial strategies and collaborative execution across shared clients.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

Planning Orchestration:Own, run and continuously improve the quarterly sales planning cycle, with transparent and consistent data and minimal manual intervention.

Gap Management & Intervention:Build mechanisms that surface risks early and drive corrective action with sales leaders before performance gaps widen.

Longer Horizon Planning:Embed a planning discipline beyond the next quarter, equipping the sales team to future proof their business through data led planning and strategy.

Insight Generation:Provide an ongoing pipeline of forward looking insight and product innovation into planning, so sales teams have timely, relevant intelligence to strengthen client conversations and own their client strategies.

Data Integrity & Governance:Maintain live governance documents that track performance and keep the business working from a single version of the truth.

Group Alignment:Represent Cartology in Woolworths Group’s customer planning process, bringing our requirements, ideas and innovations into the workflow. Act as the key link between Woolworths commercial teams and Cartology on joint business planning and collaborative supplier planning with clients.

What you’ll bring

High proficiency in data management and numeric accuracy.

Experience working in quarterly or cyclical planning environments.

Strong project management skills to run concurrent planning sessions.

Experience with CRM-based planning tools is highly desirable.

Commercial acumen to identify gaps in sales plans is highly desirable.

What you’ll experience

• Develop your career in an organisation that gives you the time and space to think creatively and strategically
• Feel supported and empowered by your leaders
• A truly unique opportunity to be involved in creating, shaping and leading the new retail media industry
• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network
• Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work

Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group

We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’

Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.