Metcash

Trade Account Manager

Metcash  •  Commonwealth of Australia (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

About the Role

Build Your Territory. Win New Business. Make Your Mark.

If you love the thrill of winning new business, opening doors and building long-term customer relationships, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for.

We're seeking a driven Trade Account Manager to grow Hudson's Mitre 10's presence across Sydney's Western Suburbs. You'll have the freedom to build your own territory, identify new opportunities and turn prospects into loyal trade customers, backed by one of Australia's most recognised brands in hardware and building supplies.

This is a true field-based sales role. You'll spend your time meeting builders, contractors and trade professionals, uncovering opportunities, winning new accounts and making a direct impact on revenue growth.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Identify, prospect and win new trade customers across your territory
  • Build relationships with builders, contractors and trade professionals
  • Generate opportunities through networking, referrals, site visits and cold calling
  • Manage the sales cycle from first contact through to account activation
  • Prepare quotes, negotiate outcomes and deliver tailored solutions
  • Grow market share, expand customer spend and exceed sales targets

What You'll Bring

  • Proven success in business development, territory sales or account acquisition
  • Confidence prospecting, negotiating and closing new business
  • A strong track record of building customer relationships and driving growth
  • Experience within hardware, timber, building materials, construction or a related industry (highly regarded)
  • A self-motivated, results-driven approach with the ability to work autonomously
  • A current driver's licence and willingness to travel throughout the territory

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

Why Join Hudson's Mitre 10?

For over 50 years Mitre 10 has been the local and independent hardware store to thousands of Australians. Our focus is on people, performance and providing great customer outcomes by working together and building partnerships.

We’re the leading partner to over 635 independently owned stores – giving them a competitive advantage to take the big chains to task, and with the trusted, strong heritage, hardware brands of Mitre 10 and Home Hardware, we enable retailers to the best stores in their town and as such ensuring builders, renovators and DIY’ers build, renovate and maintain the best homes for Australian families.

Hudson Mitre 10 is part of the Total Tools Hardware Group and is a wholly owned entity of Metcash Limited.

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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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