Metcash

Micro Space Planner

Metcash  •  Macquarie Park, AU (Hybrid)  •  5 days ago
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Job Description

At Metcash, you’re part of something bigger. We’ve got the heart of a small business with the strength and support of a big business.

When you join Metcash, your work makes a real difference to independent businesses and local communities, empowering you to:

  • Grow your career with tailored development programs
  • Thrive your way with flexible work options
  • Make your mark in a high-performing, values-led team


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.

About the Opportunity

We are currently recruiting a Micro Space Planner to help bring category strategies to life in store and support our independent retailers to perform at their best. This role plays a key part in delivering clear, data‑led planograms that optimise space productivity, enhance the shopper experience, and drive strong commercial outcomes.

If this role sounds like you and you’re passionate about making a real difference for our independent retailers, we’d love to hear from you!

In this Role

  • Develop and maintain national and state‑based planograms that optimise product visibility, space productivity, and category performance
  • Use consumer, category, and performance insights to identify opportunities that improve shelf productivity, shopper engagement, and sales outcomes
  • Provide clear shelf analysis and actionable recommendations that support better space efficiency, customer experience, and retailer profitability
  • Partner closely with Category Managers and key Vendor partners to deliver shopper‑focused, strategically aligned, and commercially effective planograms
  • Ensure high levels of accuracy, data integrity, and version control across planogram and product systems
  • Support category and space planning initiatives including range reviews, store resets, and continuous improvement activities
  • Proactively identify and implement opportunities to improve planogram processes, tools, and ways of working

You’re Likely a Match If

  • Demonstrated experience using shelf planning applications in a SaaS environment, including Store Clustering, Assortment Optimisation, Space Planning, and Planogram Automation (e.g. SymphonyAI / Blue Yonder)
  • Ability to analyse space, range, and sales data to support commercially sound space and assortment decisions
  • Strong understanding of retail merchandising and category strategy, and how these translate into effective shelf-level planograms
  • Knowledge of retail environments, including store formats, layouts, shopper behaviour, and in-store execution considerations
  • Broad category and product knowledge, including seasonal ranging and customer purchasing behaviour
  • Strong stakeholder engagement, collaboration, and communication skills, with high attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset

What’s on offer

We’re proud to offer a workplace that supports your well-being, growth, and belonging:

🏖️ 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

About Us

Join us and be part of something bigger!

Metcash is Australia’s leading wholesale distribution company, with $19.5 billion in sales (FY25) and a proud spot in the ASX Top 125.

We believe in the power of independent, family-owned businesses to shape vibrant communities. Through our food, liquor, and hardware pillars, we help retailers become the ‘Best Store in Their Town’ by providing merchandising, operational and marketing support.

We’re committed to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability — and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including First Nations. If you need support during the application process, just let us know. Your privacy and dignity are always respected.

This role is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team. We respectfully request that recruitment agencies do not submit profiles or make contact regarding this opportunity.

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Metcash

About Metcash

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.

Industry
Wholesale & Distribution
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
Macquarie Park, AU
Year Founded
1927
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