We’re looking for a passionate, organised and commercially minded Assistant Brand Manager to join our Skincare Brands team at MECCA!
This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with our ANZ brand partners and internal teams, supporting product launches, brand performance and day-to-day operations. You'll gain valuable cross-functional experience across category management, brand management and commercial planning, building a strong foundation for a future career as a Brand Manager.
The Role You Could Play:
Reporting into the Skincare Brands team, you will play a key role in supporting our brand portfolio, ensuring seamless coordination of product, brand and commercial activity. You will:
- Manage product setup, data accuracy and brand ranging, ensuring products are ready to trade across our channels
- Partner with Brand Managers and cross-functional teams to support product launches, campaigns, visual merchandising and store assortment planning
- Build strong relationships with brand partners, coordinating product information, business reviews, brand claims and international brand visits
- Coordinate collateral, including testers, samples, merchandise materials and PR stock, to support successful launches and campaigns
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to deliver commercial objectives, streamline processes and drive continuous improvement
What You Will Bring
You’re passionate about product and the customer, with experience in a fast-paced administration, coordination, retail or merchandising environment, and you’re ready to build a career with Australia’s number one beauty destination!
You are a self-starter with an eye for detail and a love for developing and maintaining efficient processes. You love numbers, spreadsheets and constantly finding new and improved ways of doing things. You have a friendly personality and love to take the lead, while excellent communication skills will allow you to comfortably communicate with all levels of the business and fit into our unique team environment.
Along with bringing your genius brain and affinity with cosmetics to the table. We are looking for someone who:
- Is results driven, with impeccable attention to detail
- Works well in a fast-paced environment and under pressure to complete tasks to set deadline
- Has strong problem-solving skills and drive for continuous improvement
- Has strong business acumen including understanding of KPIs and other performance metric
- Has advanced skills with Microsoft Office, specifically Excel.
Your life at MECCA
Whilst we are 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
- Quarterly product allowance
- Unlimited 40% discount
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 www.mecca.com.au/careers
Skills Required
- Experience in a fast-paced administration, coordination, retail, or merchandising environment
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, specifically Microsoft Excel
- Strong attention to detail and results orientation
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Strong problem-solving skills and commitment to continuous improvement
- Business acumen, including understanding KPIs and performance metrics
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Interest in cosmetics and skincare products
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.
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