Mysale Category Manager Footwear, Apparel

Accent Group Limited is the leading digitally integrated retail and distribution business in the Apparel and Footwear performance and lifestyle market in Australia and New Zealand. With over 850+ stores, 34 brands and over 30+ online platforms. Our brands include; Glue, Platypus, Skechers, Hype DC, Vans, Dr. Martens, Subtype, The Athletes Foot, CAT, Merrell, The Trybe, Timberland, Stylerunner, Hoka, UGG, Saucony, & Nude Lucy
At MYSALE (OZSale/NZSale), we’re on a mission to reinvent online value retail for a style-driven, savvy new generation of customers. We’re a fast-paced, digitally native fashion, footwear, beauty and lifestyle business offering trend-led products at smart prices in a unique marketplace. Recently acquired and ready for the next chapter, the business is entering an exciting transformational phase — and we’re looking for a game-changing Senior Category Manager to help us lead the way.
- About the role:
As the Category Manager your focus will be Footwear, Apparel and Accessories. You’ll be responsible for building and executing a category strategy that drives profit, growth, and irresistible customer value. Leading a small but powerful team of Buyers and a Buying Assistant, you'll be at the heart of trend forecasting, supplier negotiation, pricing strategy and trading performance. From sharp buying instincts to commercial savvy, this is a hands-on leadership role with major impact.
This is your chance to take ownership of a brand that’s being refreshed and reimagined — and to shape a category offer that punches well above its weight.
- Your Key Responsibilities:

- Set and own the category strategy for footwear, apparel, and accessories — ensuring it’s value-led, trend-driven and margin-savvy.
- Identify white space and growth opportunities across all product verticals.
- Drive the overall category across Owned Buy and Marketplace to create a complimentary and cohesive product offer.
- Lead and develop your team, fostering pace, accountability, creativity, and commercial thinking.
- Build strong, mutually beneficial supplier relationships that deliver exclusivity, great margins and agility.
- Collaborate across marketing, e-commerce, logistics and planning to ensure perfect product drops and seamless execution.
- Champion a test-and-learn culture, using data to iterate and optimise product mix, pricing and promotional activity.
- Monitor and report on performance, stock turn, pricing architecture and customer metrics - and drive trading decisions that deliver results.
- What You Bring:

- Proven experience in senior buying, trading, or category management across fashion, footwear, or lifestyle retail (online and/or value-focused is a major plus).
- Strong leadership skills — you know how to coach, motivate, and drive high performance in your team.
- You’re product obsessive with an uncanny instinct for trends, pricing, and what customers love.
- A dealmaker at heart — you know how to negotiate hard, protect margin, and deliver commercial wins.
- Data is your friend — you're comfortable with trading dashboards, forecasting, and performance metrics.
- You thrive in agile, fast-moving environments, and you’re not afraid to roll up your sleeves to make things happen.
- A collaborative mindset — you work seamlessly across teams to get the best results.
- Why Join MYSALE?

Because timing is everything. We’re rebuilding with purpose — redefining what it means to deliver affordable fashion and lifestyle to digitally-savvy consumers who demand style and value. With new leadership, a bold vision, and serious ambition, you’ll be part of shaping the next chapter of an exciting retail comeback.
If you’re a passionate leader with sharp commercial instincts, a love for product, and the hunger to make your mark — we want to hear from you.
Join the team and help us build something bold.
At Accent Group Limited we are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and inclusion. We believe in the diversity of our people across age, gender, identity, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, physical and mental ability. We strive on creating an equal employment environment where everyone from any background can be themselves. The Accent Group acknowledges, and pays respect, to the Traditional Owners and ongoing custodians of the land. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori people.