Metcash has appointed Grant Ramage as CEO of the company’s Food pillar. Ramage will start in the role on 1 May. He replaces Scott Marshall, who resigned earlier this year.
After a global search, Metcash went with an internal promotion. Ramage is the executive general manager Merchandise in the Food pillar, a role he’s held for four years.
Prior to his current position, Ramage was State GM, Supermarkets, Western Australia, after joining Metcash in 2015.
Metcash Group CEO Doug Jones said Ramage was uniquely positioned to take on the CEO Food role.
“His extensive experience and strong relationships, together with our proven structures, systems, and management team, ensure we have the right platform to continue the success of the Food pillar and its partners,” Jones said.
The company said as a State GM Ramage had delivered “significant and sustained improvement in the state’s logistics operations and built the requisite resilience to help address increased competition, deregulation of trading hours, and recession”.
“Grant passionately believes that ‘independents are worth fighting for’ and has played a key role in supporting the significant improvement in the competitiveness of the IGA network.
“In addition to increased value for shoppers, including competitive prices, he helped to navigate the prolonged and severe supply chain challenges of recent years, ensuring the IGA retail network continued to be well stocked and able to serve local communities,” Metcash said.
Prior to Metcash, Ramage worked at Coles Liquor where he worked across the business in merchandise, marketing, operational leadership, business development, critical projects, and exclusive brands.
