Merchandise Manager

_Make an impact. Provide inspirational leadership. Drive strategy, sales, profitability, budgets, pricing, range reviews, team leadership._

**The Opportunity**:
It doesn't happen often that we have the opportunity of offering an experienced Merchandise/Category Manager to join our team. We are seeking a talented, dynamic, and commercially savvy individual with demonstrable experience of retail category management, driving innovation and leading a capable team.

You will have overall responsibility for the growth and profitability of the category.

**Duties and responsibilities include**:

- Optimise sales and profit, managing inventory to annual budget targets

- Leadership of the category team

- Development and execution of a customer focused category strategy in a Trans-Tasman omni-channel retail business

- Identifying market/product opportunities

- Development of product ranges and competitive promotional calendar

- Range reviews

- Development of strong internal and external relationships

- Maintain effective relationships with domestic and OS Suppliers

**About you**:
An experienced Category/Product Manager, Buyer or Account Manager who is results focused, with a dynamic, go-getter mentality, ensuring your category always exceeds customer expectations and delivers strong commercial outcomes.

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- A strong commercial acumen and merchandise/category background, Omni-channel Trade preferred

- Analytical skills with a keen eye for detail

- Long-term strategic thinking and planning ability

- Experience working in a cross-functional environment

- Outstanding communication skills, collaborative and relationship building abilities

- An inspirational leadership style

- Customer centric decision-making skills

- Agile, influential and a change agent

- A team player, who is focused on success

**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

- Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

**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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