Be rewarded well: earn a highly market-competitive salary with many additional perks
This is MUCH more than a State Manager role — this is your opportunity to drive growth, inspire performance and shape the next chapter of a proudly independent retail success story
Why You'll Love This Company & Role
This isn't your average supermarket group.
It's a proudlyindependent, community-first retailer— a business that combines commercial strength with genuine heart and a long-term vision for growth.
You'll be joining a company that:
Is on apowerful growth trajectory, continually innovating its offer and driving sales performance across every department, region and state.
Valuescollaboration, trust, and shared success— where every leader's voice counts and decisions are made together.
Brings togetherhigh-performing, capable leaderswho inspire their teams and deliver exceptional results.
Offersperks well beyond a highly competitive salary, recognising loyalty and rewarding achievement and commitment.
Encourages you to bebold, commercial, and impactful— leading with purpose and influencing outcomes at every turn.
About the Company
With over80 supermarkets nationwide, with Victoria by far the largest of their states, this independently owned retailer has built a reputation forfreshness, quality, and value— and a genuine commitment to customers and communities.
Grounded in strong heritage yet forward-focused, this business continues to invest instore innovation, systems, and people development, ensuring it remains a trusted and progressive leader in the independent supermarket sector.
It's a place whereresults matter, innovation is encouraged,



and leaders are empoweredto make real impacts.
The Opportunity
This is more than a State Manager position — it's acareer-defining opportunityto shape culture, drive sales growth, and influence the ongoing success of a market-leading supermarket group.
Working to your strengths you will:
Head up the $780M Victorian state (55 supermarkets) taking full accountability forsales, profitability, people development, and operational excellence
Lead impact-fully your sizeable and highly capableSupermarket Supervisors (Area/Regional Managers) & State Fresh Leaders— ensuring to build capability and to inspire ambition, that will result in the delivery of strong, measurable results and outcomes.
In short, as the business enters its next phase of expansion, you'll be instrumental inlifting performance, elevating standards, and unlocking sales potentialthrough strategic execution and inspiring leadership.
What You'll Do
Drive sales and profit:Implement strategies that deliver consistent sales growth, margin improvement, and operational excellence.
Inspire leadership:Coach and empower your team of Supermarket Supervisors (Area/Regional Managers) and State Fresh Leaders as well as their teams to achieve and exceed performance targets.




Champion customer experience:Ensure every store delivers service, quality, and presentation that exceed expectations.
Execute with precision:Translate strategy into action, ensuring accountability, performance, and results at every level.
Lead commercial initiatives:Analyse performance data, identify opportunities, and implement initiatives that grow revenue and efficiency.
Collaborate to grow:Partner with merchandise, operations, and marketing to align regional performance with national priorities.
Shape the next chapter:Bring fresh thinking, innovation, and leadership influence on the future direction of the business.
Who You Are
Aproven sales and operations leaderin a multi-site retail operations leadership role of similar scale and dimension.
Ideally your experience comes from within supermarkets,where you have held roles at a Regional, State or National level.
Other senior level, large format retail operations experience will be considered however Supermarket and Fresh Food (fruit/meat/deli/bakery) experience is ideal at some point in your background.
Known fordriving results through people— blending sharp commercial instinct with genuine care and connection.
Ahands-on and impactful leaderwho thrives on metrics, accountability, sales and seeing results come to life.
Astrategic operatorwho balances short-term wins with long-term growth plans.
Adeveloper of leaders, capable of growing capability, confidence, and culture across large teams.
Aresilient, forward-thinking professionalwho thrives in change and sees possibility where others see pressure.
Lead.
Drive.
Deliver.
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📌 Be Rewarded Well: Earn A Highly Competitive Salary With Many Additional Perks (Melbourne)
🏢 People Equity
📍 Melbourne