Retail Activity Partner

We’re looking for a
** Retail Activity Partner
** to join our Central Operations team on a parental leave contract. This is a unique opportunity to step into a newly evolved role and help shape how we partner across the business to deliver activity into our stores in a way that is strategic, sequenced and operationally viable.
** The Role
** The Retail Activity Partner acts as the critical interface between Central Operations and the broader business, partnering with teams across Merchandise, Brands & Buying, VM, Marketing & Events, Property and New Concepts to land initiatives successfully in retail.

This role balances commercial ambition with operational reality. You will provide guidance and governance across activity planning, ensuring initiatives are well sequenced, clearly communicated and aligned to store capacity. A key focus is facilitating the Retail Activity & Capacity Planning process to ensure marketing campaigns, events and trade initiatives are distilled into executable, well-paced store activity. You’ll also play an operational lead role for major events and partnerships ensuring activity is feasible, well-supported and delivered seamlessly by our Team Members.

Act as a trusted planning partner to central teams, challenging assumptions and advocating for store feasibility and experience Strong operational understanding and retail operations knowledge and a clear understanding of store workload drivers and frontline retail environments.

Experience in retail operations, frontline retail, activity planning, change execution, project delivery or advisory roles The ability to manage multiple work streams, timelines and dependencies with autonomy Strong written and verbal communication skills
** Your Life At MECCA
** Whilst we are singularly focused on our #Customer First mantra, 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 way! Some of our other team member benefits include:
* Professional development programs and first-class digitised learning offering
* Health and well-being initiatives
* Reward and recognition programs
* Access to bonus and incentive programs
* Access to quarterly product allowance
* Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy. There 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 Linked In at  or @lifeatmecca and for all current opportunities, visit

This role would suit an experienced Store Manager or Senior Operations Manager ready to step into the Central Operations Team or a retail operations professional with strong frontline understanding and a passion for planning and governance.

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