Category Planning Manager

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Melbourne, Österreich Mecca Brands Vollzeit
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MECCA’s purpose is to help people look, but more importantly feel and be their best self. To ensure that we provide our customers with exceptional service with the right products at the right time, we are are looking for a Category Planning Manager on a 12 month fixed term contract to contribute and strengthen our Supply processes and systems to support the performance across planning with our brands and replenishment for our stores.The Role You Could

Play:Leading a team of Demand & Supply Planners, the Category Planning Manager will lead and be a part of driving a world class demand function that connects our brands to their sales targets, and our customers to their products of choice. As a key liaison between Merchandise, Stores, Marketing, Category, Commercial, Supply Chain and Suppliers (Brands), the Category Planning Manager ensures that all forecasts are accurate and supply deadlines are met, in alignment with Store and Customer needs along with having the best-in-class store and DC availability to achieve commercial and operational goals.Overall, the Category Planning Manager contributes to the business by driving brand improvement and ensuring the smooth end to end supply process between the brand and MECCA to ensure stock availability to store, and the distribution centre is above 98%, and within all performance measures.This is achieved by:Developing effective replenishment plans through balancing the needs and requirements of MECCA with the capabilities of suppliers;Implementation and review of supplier development plans and establishing performance targets to drive supplier performance and capability improvements;Best in class forecast accuracy, driving a team of demand planners to maximize MECCA’s forecasting system, JE (Just Enough) in order to connect and collaborate with brands to develop effective supply plans for core; events; and any over/under performanceFacilitating and leading the Replenishment Joint Business Planning process including the collation of information, collaborative formulation of initiatives, and the monitoring of devised action plans;Optimising orders through consolidating order deliveries, manipulating orders, adjusting system parameters, etc;Clearly articulating MECCA’s expectations and requirements to suppliers to align all stakeholders; andMonitoring and communicating supplier breaches to performance, and develop improvement plans to prevent reoccurrence.What You Will Bring:There is no doubt that extensive category planning experience, ideally in retail, and a commercial mindset are essential to perform this role. In addition, our ideal candidate will be a master relationship-builder and be able to demonstrate the following:Your Life At MECCAExtensive experience in Category planning in a fast paced, retail or FMCG environmentStrong experience as a change agent and driving transformationPrevious experience nurturing and growing talent in a high-performance environmentComplex problem-solving skills, is solution focused and constantly drives for continuous improvementsAbility to influence stakeholders across all levels and business functionsAbility to think critically, adapting quickly to change with a solution-oriented approachHands on approach with the ability to drive continuous improvementsWhilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirstmantra, we know

that wouldn’t be

possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the waySome of our other team member benefits include:Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offeringHealth and well-being initiativesReward and recognition programsAccess to bonus and incentive programsQuarterly product allowanceUnlimited 40% discountThere are also so many other ways in

which you’ll be

made to feel part of the MECCA story as we love to celebrate, surprise and delight our team along the way.To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at

MECCA Brands

or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit

our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to look and feel their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands, coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have almost 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day.Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores , our Support Centre

or one of our Distribution Centres, you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.

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