Merchandise Assistant

Great opportunity to move off the tools and use your automotive knowledge & experience in a rare opportunity with a market leader._ _
- Coordinate administration, general marketing, reporting & data analysis activities for a busy category. Hands on merchandise support role._
- Exciting Opportunity within a Growing Organisation
- Iconic Local & Global Brands
- Great work culture and supportive team

**About Us**

With 100 years operational experience, GPC Asia Pacific is the largest automotive aftermarket parts supplier in Australia and New Zealand, supported by Genuine Parts Company in North America, owner of the NAPA parts distribution business. GPC Asia Pacific is the parent company of standout brands such as Repco and NAPA Australia.

Every day we deliver careers and experiences that are both challenging and rewarding. We have fun at work and celebrate our achievements and milestones, big and small. We foster an environment where we focus on results and continuous improvement and our people share our passion.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Channel Manager, the Merchandise Assistant will support the Category Team in the growth and profitability of a specific category, whilst having a strong focus on marketing activities, administrative processes, and data analytics.

**Duties include**:

- Support all members of the category team
- Assist with loading of images and catalogue layouts
- General marketing support
- Administer processes relating to the category
- Manage product data related activities including vendor cost changes, clearance excess reporting, product data and pricing maintenance
- Assist with retail and trade promotional builds and ensure deadlines are met
- Assist with event and promotional planning
- Data base management
- Compile weekly reporting

**About You**:

- Familiar with marketing principles or exposure to retail/trade marketing preferred
- Strong excel skills
- Automotive knowledge required
- Strong organisational skills and able to juggle a number of constantly changing priorities
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Able to work effectively without close supervision, with a flexible approach
- Studies in marketing/merchandise an advantage

**Looking after you**:
We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked after. In addition to a rewarding and challenging career, we will provide:

- Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
- Private health insurance discounts
- Employee assistance program
- A highly safety conscious work environment
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation

**GPC Asia Pacific**
Movement is in our DNA. We are **GPC Asia Pacific**: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco, NAPA, McLeod Accessories and Motion Industries.

Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.

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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.