Category Excellence Business Analyst

About Bapcor Limited

Bapcor is a prominent ASX-listed company operating across Australia, New Zealand, and Thailand with more than 900 locations and a workforce of 5,000 team members. Its portfolio includes well-known brands such as Burson, Autobarn, Midas, Truckline, BNT, and JAS, servicing cars, four-wheel drives, and trucks through the entire aftermarket supply chain encompassing trade, retail, networks, and service. Bapcor is dedicated to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where employees can excel and thrive, guided by core values: integrity, collaboration, caring, and execution.

Role Overview

We are looking for a commercially savvy and analytically strong Category Excellence Business Analyst to join the Group Category Strategy team. Reporting to the GM Group Category Strategy, this role is instrumental in supporting Strategic Trade Partner Plans, conducting category reviews, and driving procurement initiatives via thorough analysis, reporting, governance, and effective coordination with stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the planning, coordination, and governance involving Strategic Trade Partner Plans, category reviews, and procurement processes.
• Conduct detailed analysis of categories, trade partners, procurement data, sales, margins, inventory, and commercial performance to spot trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Compile review packs, scorecards, briefing notes, presentations, and decision-making resources for relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain tracking systems for actions, milestones, risks, and dependencies to ensure timely progress and fulfillment of commitments.
• Collaborate with Group Product Category Leads, Procurement, and various business units to enhance reporting transparency and decision quality.
• Generate actionable insights and recommendations to boost category outcomes, trade partner performance, and commercial results.
• Support governance policies, reporting standards, templates, and continuous improvement within the Category Excellence function.
• Identify and implement enhancements in reporting accuracy, data quality, workflows, and operational processes relating to category and procurement activities.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is highly organized and analytical, adept at working with data, managing accountability, and influencing through evidence-based insights and structured problem-solving.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Tertiary education in Business, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a closely related area.
• Experience in commercial analysis, procurement, category management, project coordination, PMO, or business support roles.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including strong analytical capabilities and experience interpreting business data.
• Demonstrated ability preparing detailed reports, presentations, dashboards, briefing documents, and extracting business insights.
• Proven stakeholder management skills with confidence in follow-up, challenging assumptions, and maintaining accountability.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Strong organizational skills with the capacity to handle multiple priorities and meet deadlines effectively.
• A proactive, inquisitive mindset with a solution-oriented approach.

Preferred Attributes

• Experience supporting governance committees, strategic projects, or structured project delivery.
• Exposure to procurement, category management, retail, wholesale, supply chain, or commercial environments.
• Familiarity with Power BI or comparable business intelligence reporting tools.
• Background in automotive aftermarket industry is advantageous but not mandatory.

Additional Information

Joining Bapcor provides an opportunity to work within a diverse group with numerous career pathways, access to discounts on company products and services across retail and trade brands, and generous work-life balance policies such as gender-neutral parental leave, purchase leave, volunteer leave, paid birthday leave, wellbeing programs, and novated leasing options. Bapcor prides itself on fostering an inclusive workplace and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, offering a recruitment process free from bias and accommodating reasonable adjustments during hiring.

Note: Applications are accepted only directly from candidates; recruitment agencies are kindly asked not to contact regarding this position.