Join a high-growth, private equity-backed consumer business, currently entering an exciting new phase of investment and growth.

Working closely with the Chief Commercial Officer and senior commercial leaders, you’ll own the commercial analysis behind the organisation’s biggest decisions, from demand and supply planning through to pricing, margin and customer strategy.

You’ll structure problems, work out what matters and turn the numbers into clear recommendations that shape what the business produces, sources and sells. You’ll learn from senior strategy leaders who have made the move from top-tier consulting into industry themselves, with regular access to the CEO and executive team. It’s exposure well beyond a typical Associate role.

Key responsibilities include:

- Owning the demand forecast, turning sales team inputs into a single view of demand across markets and products, from the short term through to multi-year planning
- Building cost-to-serve analysis by product and setting the margin floors and minimum prices the sales team negotiates against
- Showing the real dollar impact of commercial decisions, from pricing trade-offs to channel mix across retail and wholesale customers
- Shaping strategies for each product category, channel and customer, framed as explicit options with a recommendation and refined as market conditions change
- Steering third-party supply purchasing decisions, including what to buy, when and at what price




- Partnering with senior commercial leaders to prepare for and lead key customer negotiations
- Redesigning sales KPIs and dashboards around the decisions they need to support, working with the in-house reporting team
- Getting to know the business from the ground up, spending your first weeks across operations and the supply chain

What You'll Bring:

- 2 to 5 years’ experience in management consulting gained within a leading management consulting firm, with a focus on strategy (e.g. McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Kearney, L.E.K., Oliver Wyman, Strategy&, EY-Parthenon, Monitor Deloitte, Port Jackson Partners or similar)
- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, including scenario and blank-sheet modelling
- The commercial judgement to turn analysis into a clear, confident recommendation
- Confidence presenting to and influencing senior commercial leaders
- Curiosity about how the operation works, healthy scepticism of the numbers and a hands-on approach to getting things done
- Demand forecasting, S&OP;, pricing or product-level analysis, FMCG or consumer exposure, private equity-backed environments or Power BI skills highly regarded, though not essential

If you’re looking for an opportunity to be mentored by experienced former consultants and senior commercial leaders, see your analysis drive real decisions, and build a long-term in-house career with pathways into commercial, supply chain or strategy leadership, please reach out for a confidential discussion, [email protected]

📌 Strategy Associate - Commercial (Melbourne)
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📍 Melbourne