Job no: 945727
Work type: Permanent / Full time
Location: Support Office - Docklands
About Myer Group
Myer Group brings together iconic brands that define fashion, beauty and lifestyle across Australia and New Zealand. With a store network that includes Myer, Just Jeans, Dotti, Portmans, Jacqui E, Jay Jays, sass and bide, Marcs and David Lawrence, at Myer Group you’ll be part of a diverse and dynamic team that’s shaping the future of retail across stores, online and beyond.
The Myer team are looking for a Senior Merchandise Planner (known in the organisation as a Senior Planner) to join the Homewares team. This key leadership role partners closely with the Buying team to develop and execute a profitable, customer-focused merchandise strategy while driving sales, inventory optimisation, and business performance across the category.
- Key leadership role within the team
- An exciting opportunity to further develop your career within the Planning stream
- Hybrid working model, partly working remotely as well as our Support Office
About the role:
- Lead the planning and trading of key categories within Homewares, implementing commercial strategies and tactical initiatives to achieve sales, profit, and inventory objectives.
- Partner with Buying, Leadership, and Executive teams to develop and execute the overall category strategy.
- Prepare, coordinate, and present Monthly Merchandise Reviews (MMR) and financial forecasts to senior stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Deliver accurate forecasts across key financial metrics, proactively identifying risks and opportunities based on sales performance, customer trends, marketing activity, and product performance.
- Analyse market conditions, customer behaviours, emerging trends, and competitor activity to inform strategic decision-making.
- Conduct detailed in-season and post-season analysis, including supplier performance, stock health, inventory productivity, and business reporting.
- Collaborate closely with Buyers to develop compelling customer assortments that deliver strong commercial outcomes across sales, gross profit, and productivity measures.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing planning team through mentoring, succession planning, regular feedback, and capability-building initiatives.
About you:
- Extensive experience as a Merchandise Planner, including leadership experience within a retail environment.
- Strong commercial, financial, and analytical capability, with a proven ability to translate insights into business outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience influencing and engaging stakeholders at senior and executive levels.
- Proven ability to lead, motivate, and develop medium-sized teams.
- Experience using merchandise planning and forecasting systems is highly desirable.
- A degree or diploma in Merchandise Management, Commerce, Marketing, Retail Management, Business, Economics, or a related discipline is advantageous but not essential.
- Strong understanding of retail operations, financial drivers, customer trends, and merchandise planning principles.
Benefits to you:
We're committed to providing a positive and supportive environment, where our team members are empowered to reach their full potential.
Our team members enjoy a range of benefits including:
- Team member discounts: Generous discounts in-store and online
- Learning and development: Capability development workshops, succession planning, and internal career opportunities across Myer Group brands.
- Flexible working: Lifestyle leave, flexible work hours and hybrid working is available for Store Support Office roles
- Lifestyle benefits: Employee Assistance Program (EAP), volunteer leave, discounted health insurance, gym memberships and novated leasing for eligible employees.
Your future starts here — help shape what’s next at Myer Group.
Aust. Working Rights: To be eligible to apply for this job, you must have Australian working rights. For further information contact the Australian Department of Immigration.
Equal Opp. Employer: We pride ourselves on the diversity of the people who work at Myer, representing the community in which we serve.
Agency note: Myer Pty Ltd does not accept unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles from external agencies or suppliers via any method. Any candidates submitted in an unsolicited manner, will be considered a direct candidate application to Myer and no fee will be payable.
Applications close: AUS Eastern Standard Time
