Commercial Business Partner

Partner with our sales & marketing leaders, sharing commercial advice, insights & analysis to support impactful business strategies & decisions

• Commercial business partner supporting Sales and Marketing functions
• Develop insights and analysis to support strategies and create growth
• Highbrook location, hybrid working options, free parking onsite

The role: Commercial Business Partner – Sales and Marketing

Reporting to our Commercial Manager, in this role you will partner with both our Sales and Marketing Directors and senior leaders to provide comprehensive commercial insights and advice across both departments. We are looking for someone to be a challenger and bring new ideas and insights to generate strategies that support our sales growth and product evolution.

As an effective business partner working with our senior leaders, in this role you will collaborate and support the functions by developing strategies and insights to drive growth initiatives, along with the implementation and tracking of sales and marketing campaigns and having oversight of commercial business cases.

Bring your commercial expertise and strong partnering approach to optimise performance and strengthen growth across our Sales and Marketing functions.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide commercial expertise, advice and support to both our Sales and Marketing Directors as they generate strategy and execute tactics. Work alongside our Sales Leadership team.
• Guide sales target development, incentives, resourcing and performance reporting
• Use external sources to add market intelligence and insight into market and performance discussions
• Oversee and set standards that support an efficient and effective business case review process
• Bring ideas and energy to the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. Champion sales gap closing initiatives
• Collaborate with Sales and Marketing teams to understand and optimise channel performance
• Pro-actively review the business units supported, and put forward recommendations for improvements, profit enhancement, and performance optimisation

What you will bring:

• Minimum 7 years' relevant commercial experience, preferably within a medium to large multinational organisation
• Broad commercial knowledge
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated pragmatic input across all business areas
• Demonstrated experience in contracts and other negotiations
• Proven experience presenting financial information to business stakeholders
• Project management experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

People, Culture and working for OfficeMax:

• Develop your skills with a personalised development plan
• Great people A business you can be proud to work for

Our brand is deceiving. When you think about OfficeMax, you often think stationery products. And sure, that is part of what we sell – but we offer much more than that with thousands of SKUs to help workplaces, work better. Supporting over 30,000 businesses across Aotearoa – in all sectors and industries around the motu.

OfficeMax has a focus on growth and partnership – for our people, our solutions, and our customers. Our aim is to support the development of your capabilities by providing learning opportunities that allow you to take accountability for your career direction.

Not only are we people focussed, but we are hugely passionate about being accountable for our sustainability footprint and our support to Barnardos 0800 What's Up line, Aotearoa's only helpline for children and teenagers. Additionally, we take pride in being Government partners of the Ikura project through which we provide free period products to education providers across Aotearoa.

By joining OfficeMax, you are choosing a business that prioritises diversity of culture and thought. You will bring your growth mind-set, a lens of curiosity and enjoy the challenge of constant evolution. No one day is the same - haere mai, come join us