Why you’ll love this role
Step into a high-impact role where you’ll lead executive hiring across a national ASX-listed business, partnering directly with senior leaders while shaping the future of leadership at Metcash.
With the opportunity to build proactive talent pipelines and bring real market insight, this role offers strong autonomy, enterprise-wide visibility, and the flexibility of a permanent part-time (4 days/week) hybrid working model.
Extra reasons to join us
🕒 Flexibility & balance: Flex Ready & Family Friendly accredited employer, 5th week of annual leave, free onsite parking
📈 Grow your career: Ongoing development opportunities to keep progressing
🤝 Inclusive & supportive: A values led workplace recognised for inclusion, wellbeing and pay equity
What you’ll do
• Lead end-to-end recruitment for senior leadership roles across Metcash [
• Partner with senior stakeholders to define role requirements, success measures and leadership capability
• Build and maintain proactive pipelines and network of executive talent across critical capability areas
• Provide market insights to shape attraction strategies and EVP positioning
• Manage executive search partners where required, ensuring quality, governance and value for money
• Contribute to tailored onboarding approaches to accelerate senior leader success
What you’ll bring
• Strong experience recruiting executive or senior leadership roles
• Strong demonstrated capability in proactive sourcing, pipelining and executive market engagement
• Credibility and confidence partnering with senior stakeholders
• Exceptional stakeholder management within complex organisational structures
• Experience managing executive search firms and external partners
• Ability to represent and promote an employer brand effectively in the market
Be Part of Something Bigger
Backing local brilliance is at the heart of what we do. As Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, Metcash proudly supports independent retailers behind iconic brands such as IGA, Foodland, Mitre 10, Total Tools, Cellarbrations and The Bottle O, fuelling an unstoppable network of independents across Australia.
We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are committed to supporting you throughout the recruitment process.
This role is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team – no agencies please.
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At Metcash, we’re the power behind an independent Australia & New Zealand. From the humble origins of our first family-owned corner store in 1927, we’ve been backing independents and strengthening the communities they operate in for almost 100 years. With a national network of more than 10,000 independent retailers and a further 90,000 wholesalers, we’re the driving force behind local, family-owned businesses – sticking up for the little guys and helping them become the best stores in town. And while we may be large in size, we’ll always be locals at heart.
Today we’re Australia and New Zealand’s leading independent retail partner and wholesaler in food, liquor and hardware. We have over 80 years of experience supporting and championing the interests of independent grocery, liquor and hardware sectors. Headquartered in Sydney, our world class distribution facilities across the country allow us to operate on a huge scale to unite Australia's independent grocers, delivering products to more than 10,000 retail premises and a further 90,000 wholesale customers across the food, grocery, liquor and hardware markets. Our network of Successful Independents includes a large portfolio of brands such as IGA, Foodland, Mitre 10, Home Timber & Hardware, Cellarbrations and the Bottle-O.
At Metcash we have a single purpose - Successful Independents - it is at the heart of everything we do. Success starts with our people. Employing over 6,000 people, Metcash champions the interests of the independent retail industry. We are a team of people who are resilient and empowered, who take initiative and pride in their work and above all operate with integrity. Our core operations are key to providing our customers and retailers with merchandising, operations and marketing support through our strong retail brands.
Whilst we operate on a huge scale, we think big but we act local. We believe that independence is worth fighting for and this is at the core of our business divisions.
