Marketing Manager

**Job no**: 540502
**Work type**: Permanent
**Location**: Melbourne - CBD & Inner
**Categories**: Marketing Brand & Events

At David Jones, we exist to inspire like no other. As we deliver our Vision 2025+ transformation strategy, we’re reimagining what it means to be a modern, premium retailer—blending heritage with innovation to shape the future of Australian retail.

We’re looking for an experienced **Marketing Manager** to lead the end-to-end strategy, planning, and execution of marketing and retail media initiatives across one of our most dynamic and fast-evolving categories. This is a pivotal role that drives customer engagement, category growth, and brand equity, while also unlocking new revenue through retail media innovation.

Reporting into the Head of Category Marketing, you will oversee marketing activity for the beauty category. You will play a critical role in shaping integrated campaigns that resonate with our customers, fuel commercial outcomes, and strengthen David Jones' positioning as a beauty destination of choice.

**What you'll be doing**
- Own and lead the development of category-wide marketing strategies that drive awareness, traffic, and conversion across instore and online
- Build and nurture strategic brand partnerships, balancing compelling storytelling with commercial performance
- Plan and deliver full-funnel, insight-led campaigns across owned, earned, and paid channels—including digital, in-store, social, CRM, and experiential
- Leverage and evolve David Jones’ retail media capabilities, activating high-impact campaigns using first-party data, onsite media, and instore activations
- Collaborate cross-functionally with buying, visual merchandising, creative, media, and digital teams to deliver cohesive, customer-first experiences
- Support broader enterprise initiatives, working closely with the wider marketing ecosystem to align beauty activity with key trading moments and priorities

**What you’ll bring**
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in a marketing role within beauty, luxury retail, or agency environments
- Minimum 5 years’ experience leading a high-performance marketing team
- Demonstrated success in leading multi-channel campaigns that drive measurable business outcomes
- A deep understanding of the beauty consumer—including shopper behaviour, category trends, content formats, and cultural relevance
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to balance brand-building with ROI-driven decision-making
- Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing and aligning multiple internal and external partners
- An agile, solutions-focused mindset, with the confidence to lead in a fast-paced, evolving environment

**_ 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 including performance-based incentives
- 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 decisio