Strategic Trading Partner — Tobacco, Analytics & Growth

Metcash Limited; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extra Leave: 5th week of annual leave

Flexible work options

Career growth opportunities

Gender-neutral parental leave

Inclusive culture

Mental health accreditation

Flex Ready and Family Friendly

Job summary

Metcash Limited is seeking a commercially minded Commercial Partner (Tobacco) to join our Trading team. You will drive profitability and growth through insights, forecasting, pricing decisions and performance reporting.

You'll partner with Category Managers and the Head of Trade to refine JBPs, negotiate with suppliers and shape commercial strategies across Finance, Supply Chain and Sales. Strong Power BI or Circana experience is highly regarded.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial acumen and analytical capability.
• Experience in financial modelling, forecasting and business partnering.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Understanding of category management, pricing and profit drivers.
• Experience with data visualisation and reporting tools such as Power BI or Circana is highly regarded.
• Ability to co-develop commercial strategies and translate insights into practical action plans.
• Strong understanding of the Retail landscape with the ability to connect category performance to commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Trading leaders to improve commercial outcomes and category performance.
• Deliver insightful analysis, KPI reporting and actionable recommendations.
• Support supplier negotiations, Joint Business Plans (JBPs) and trading terms discussions.
• Lead forecasting, budgeting and performance planning activities.
• Drive inventory optimisation and aged stock management.
• Identify commercial opportunities, risks and income recovery initiatives.
• Develop or redesign PowerBI dashboards that translate performance insights into clear actions for Trading, State and Channel teams.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Financial modelling

Forecasting

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Category management

Power BI

Circana

Data visualization

Retail knowledge

Tools

Power BI

Circana

Job description

Metcash Limited is seeking a commercially minded Commercial Partner (Tobacco) to join our Trading team. You will drive profitability and growth through insights, forecasting, pricing decisions and performance reporting.

You'll partner with Category Managers and the Head of Trade to refine JBPs, negotiate with suppliers and shape commercial strategies across Finance, Supply Chain and Sales. Strong Power BI or Circana experience is highly regarded.