The Role You Could Play
We’re looking for an experienced and commercially astute Senior Brand Manager – New Brands to join our dynamic Brands & Buying team at MECCA. This pivotal role is responsible for building relationships with priority new brands that align with MECCA’s strategic goals, negotiating distribution agreements, and ensuring a seamless onboarding experience across the business.
This is a 12-month parental leave contract, offering a rare opportunity to contribute to one of the most critical functions in the business—bringing the world’s most exciting new beauty brands into MECCA’s portfolio.
You’ll work closely with our Chief Brands and Buying Officer, Heads of Category, and cross-functional teams across Marketing, Digital, and Retail to deliver win-win brand partnerships and exceptional launch experiences.
In this role, you will:
Lead commercial negotiations with new brands to secure distribution agreements in line with MECCA’s strategic objectives.
Build and maintain a new brands pipeline, tracking performance and reporting to senior stakeholders.
Coordinate onboarding and go-to-market launches with internal teams to ensure flawless execution.
Act as a key ambassador for new brands, ensuring a positive first experience and long-term success.
Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and Merchandise to achieve strong commercial outcomes and compliance.
What You Will Bring
You’re an enthusiastic and strategic thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. You have a strong commercial mindset and the ability to influence at all levels while staying solutions-focused.
You’ll bring:
Proven experience in brand management, buying, or commercial negotiation within retail, beauty, or FMCG.
Strong relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
Excellent analytical and communication skills, with a focus on outcomes.
A proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable approach to managing multiple priorities.
A passion for beauty and identifying “the next big thing” in the category.
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
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.
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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