The Assistant Brand Manager is a key role within our Brands and Buying team! This role works closely with the Brand Managers and the cross-functional stakeholders to support the team in management, commercial delivery and operational excellence of our brands.
The Role You Could Play:
This role ensures the timely and accurate support of all aspects of our brands and product set up, completes accurate ranging, supports marketing and assists the Brand Managers in ensuring we meet our commercial objectives. The Assistant Brand Manager plays a critical role in cross-functional support, acts as a brand ambassador and liaises regularly with internal departments including Planning, Range & Space, Retail, Marketing, Education, Freight and the DC. This role also works closely with external contacts across multiple brands representing MECCA as an ambassador.
- Timely management of item set up and product maintenance, liaising with brands on timely delivery and ensuring accuracy
- Develop store assortments with Brand Managers and Range & Space team, analyzing best sellers and space requirements / restrictions
- Support brand manager to ensure commercial targets and brand commitments are met
- Support the team with managing products, campaign information, education and supporting collateral
- Working with Brand Managers, developing product lists for monthly campaigns and VM hotspots
- Manage monthly brand claims, liaising with Finance and Brand Manager
- Coordinate itineraries for international visits, including brand founders, trainers, and account managers
What You Will Bring:
- Prior experience in a similar role is highly desirable
- Able to adapt to changing priorities
- Has a high attention to detail and high degree of accuracy
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office in particular Power Point and Excel
- Is proactive with a desire for continual improvement
- Proven ability to work cross functionally
Your Life At MECCA
Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!
Some of our other team member benefits include:
- Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
- Health and well-being initiatives
- Reward and recognition programs
- Access to bonus and incentive programs
- Access to quarterly product allowance
- Up to 40% discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, subject to company policy!
There are also so many other ways in which you’ll be made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.
To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit http://www.mecca.com.au/careerswww.mecca.com.au/careers
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What We Do
Since our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to feel and look their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands (+ more), coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have over 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day.
Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or our Distribution Centre (DC), you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.
Our Retail Store teams are known for their energy, passion and expertise; bringing MECCA to life and helping us deliver on our purpose across four unique concepts – MECCA Cosmetica, MECCA Maxima, MECCA and our online stores (mecca.com.au and meccabeauty.co.nz).
Working in our Support Centre will give you the opportunity to be part of high-impact, cross-functional projects, where you will get to immerse yourself in cutting-edge technologies and market-leading innovations. Not only do we work with over 150 of the best global beauty brands, we also develop, produce and distribute MECCA’s very own signature line of products. From supply chain to digital design, from software development to strategy, and everything in between, we are looking for diverse people from all backgrounds to continually challenge our way of thinking.
Last but certainly not least, our rapidly expanding DC teams are the backbone of our operations and are key to the delivery of a seamless customer experience through online fulfillment and ensuring our stores have the right products at the right time.
