MECCA's Planning team plays a critical role in ensuring the right products are in the right place at the right time, enabling exceptional customer experiences while driving commercial performance across the business.
As Head of Planning, you will play a key part in evolving our planning capability as MECCA continues through an exciting period of transformation.
The Role You Could Play:
Reporting into the General Manager - Merchandise Operations, you will lead the Planning function and drive commercial outcomes across the business. You will:
Lead and evolve the Planning function through organisational transformation, embedding new ways of working and driving continuous improvement.
Partner with our Brand Management, Merchandise Operations, Range & Space and executive stakeholders to develop and execute commercial planning strategies that optimise business performance.
Coach, develop and inspire a large team of planning leaders, building capability and fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture.
Represent the Planning function at Leadership Team level, providing commercial insights and recommendations to influence key business decisions.
Balance strategic leadership with hands-on operational involvement, identifying opportunities to improve planning processes and team effectiveness.
What You Will Bring:
You are a collaborative and commercially astute planning leader who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments. Ideally, you will bring:
Significant leadership experience within Planning, Merchandising or Commercial functions, ideally in beauty retail, fashion or FMCG.
Demonstrated success leading large teams through organisational transformation and change.
Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes.
Experience balancing strategic planning with operational execution in high-volume, consumer-focused businesses.
A people-first leadership style with a passion for developing capability, building strong partnerships and creating high-performing teams.
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
Access to quarterly product allowance
Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, 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 www.mecca.com.au/careers.
Skills Required
- Significant leadership experience within Planning, Merchandising or Commercial functions
- Experience leading large teams through organisational transformation and change
- Strong commercial acumen with ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic outcomes
- Experience balancing strategic planning with operational execution in high-volume, consumer-focused businesses
- People-first leadership style with passion for developing capability and building high-performing teams
- Experience in beauty retail, fashion or FMCG
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.
