DC Strategy Vendor Transition and Modelling

DC Strategy Vendor Transition and Modelling - 18-month FTC

Job no: 540825
Work type: Limited Tenure
Location: Melbourne - CBD & Inner
Categories: Supply Chain, Strategy & Project Management

The DC Strategy – Vendor Transition & Modelling role is responsible, in conjunction with the merchandise team, for realising the benefits of the DC Strategy business case, including recovering vendor arbitrage of approximately 1% of the total purchase value at cost. The role will partner with buying managers to strengthen profitable vendor relationships and support successful vendor transitions to the new DC.

This role will be a key resource in delivering expert supply chain support, including historic modelling of delivery costs, freight arbitrage analysis, and evaluating operational transition impacts such as delivery requirements. The position requires senior-level negotiation skills and proven experience working with large-scale global brands and vendor partners to effectively execute merchandise strategies.

What YOUR DAY LOOKS LIKE

- Leverage emerging business capabilities to support the achievement of customer and commercial targets.

- Ensure commercial optimisation and consistency within and across the Merchandise teams.

- Partner cross functionally to ensure optimal outcomes and shared success, whilst championing best practice and building capability and confidence across the business.

- Maintain accuracy and integrity of the transport arbitrage model by ensuring correct product dimensions and ongoing data maintenance.

- Collaborate with the merchandise teams and concession partners, to design a future concessions delivery model that supports a direct-to-warehouse approach, including an arbitrage recovery framework.

- Support merchandise planning operations for Vendor Arbitrage by creating accurate models and presenting vendor arbitrage scenarios.

- Develop, document, and communicate new Standard Operating Procedures for the new warehouse to merchandise teams and vendors.

- Partner with SPS, our EDI provider, to ensure vendors are systematically set up for the transition from the direct-to-store model to the direct-to-warehouse model.

- Complete delivery modelling and commercial supply chain rates to model the Vendor Arbitrage benefits

- Lead, manage and develop the operational execution plan for DC strategy and Vendor Transition.

- Support change management and governance requirements across all merchandise areas for the Vendor Transition plan to the new DC.

What YOU’LL NEED TO THRIVE

- Experience in a similar role preferred

- Experience with analysing complex data sets and obtaining meaningful information

- Excellent commercial and financial acumen.

- Experience in Merchandise negotiating with Global Vendor partners delivering locally

- Customer centric thinking and approach

- Critical and strategic thinking

- Creative problem-solving skills

- Negotiation and Influencing Skills

- Excellent partnering and relationship building capabilities

- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

Why work for us?

Our purpose at David Jones is to ‘inspire like no other’, and culturally we aspire to be THRIVING. In our thriving culture, our people will be at their best as individuals and as teams. Our thriving cultural foundations are defined by the behaviours each and every one of us display. It’s our commitment and responsibility to ensure that as individuals and as a collective, that we are living our cultural foundations.

- Unique opportunity to be part of a highly engaged, successful team, focused on the transformation of an iconic Australian brand

- A competitive remuneration package

- Hybrid working arrangements in office and from home that provide appropriate work/life balance

- Parental leave policy of 18-weeks paid leave for the primary carer, and 3-weeks paid leave for the supporting partner

- Generous employee discounts across David Jones and access to partner benefits

- An additional day of leave for your birthday along with time to support charitable work

- Opportunities to support community partnerships across our Corporate Social Responsibility program

- Be a member of a company committed to sustainable practices, driving change in the retail landscape

- Ongoing training and development to pursue individual ambitions

About Us

Since 1838, David Jones’ limitless quest for innovation and progress established the brand as Australia’s original influencer in fashion and lifestyle. Having revolutionised the way Australians shop, David Jones’ creation of a social centre inspired and created lasting memories for past, present and future generations. Today, our vision to inspire Like No Other drives us to continue this legacy in our ambitious purpose to be the destination that inspires, with experiences and services Like No Other.

Our Thriving cultural pillars inspire our people to deliver on our vision and purpose. We are Customer Obsessed; curious to understand and dedicated to delighting them with seamless solutions as one team. We care for our people, customers, partners and community by creating Inclusive environments through belonging and respect. We Empower with implied trust to act with integrity, value our unique skills and be accountable for our decisions. We constantly seek Innovative ways of improving, changing and exploring ways that we can inspire.

David Jones is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application to assist you through the recruitment process.

Advertised: 08 Sep 2025 AUS Eastern Standard Time
Applications close:

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