Job no: 945570
Work type: Permanent / Full time
Location: Support Office - Docklands
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
Join MYERGroup as our Category Marketing Manager – Fragrance & Makeup and shape the future of Australia’s most-loved beauty brands. In this exciting role, you'll lead the strategic and tactical marketing direction for our Fragrance and Makeup categories, driving growth across an extensive portfolio of premium and prestige brands, encompassing colour cosmetics, lips, eyes, face, and fragrance across all brands within the portfolio. Working closely with brand partners and cross-functional teams, you'll have the opportunity to influence category performance, inspire customers, and leave your mark on one of Australia's leading retailers.
About the role:
- Develop and own the end-to-end Fragrance & Makeup marketing strategy, aligning category objectives with Myer’s broader Beauty and customer strategies.
- Translate commercial plans into customer-facing marketing narratives that differentiate Myer’s Fragrance & Makeup offer and reinforce its authority as a destination for prestige beauty.
- Identify category growth drivers, risks and opportunities through data, customer insights and competitive analysis.
- Define campaign priorities and lead the development of seasonal, brand-led and customer-led marketing briefs across Fragrance & Makeup.
- Partner with Creative, Retail Media and Insights teams to ensure campaigns are insight-led, high quality and built for channel effectiveness.
- Build category trade plans that align with buying and merchandise strategies, promotional cadences and retail events.
- Leverage the Myer retail media network to deliver highly targeted, insight-led opportunities powered by Myer One behavioural shopping data.
- Align internal and external brand priorities with retail media offerings, ensuring a cohesive, customer-centric marketing approach.
- Establish strong relationships with Buying and Merchandise teams to align on product priorities, range launches, new brand introductions and gifting opportunities.
- Manage the Fragrance & Makeup marketing budget, ensuring accurate forecasting, cost tracking and ROI evaluation in collaboration with the Marketing Operations and Planning team.
About you:
- 7+years’ experience in retail, beauty or category marketing with ownership of category or brand marketing plans, ideally with exposure to fragrance, colour cosmetics or prestige beauty.
- Strong commercial focus with ability to interpret trade data, customer insights and performance analytics.
- Demonstrated experience working with Buying / Merch teams or product-led stakeholders in a retail environment.
- Proven ability to develop strategic marketing plans and translate them into effective multichannel execution.
- Experience managing multiple brands, including prestige, global and concession partners with strong brand governance requirements.
- Understanding of beauty and fragrance consumer behaviour, trend cycles, gifting occasions and the aspiration-driven nature of the colour cosmetics and fragrance purchase journey.
- Strong creative judgement and experience briefing creative / agency teams.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience leading or developing junior talent
- Highly organised with strong project management capability and ability to manage competing deadlines.
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.
With more than 125 years of retail heritage, it’s an exciting time to join Myer Group.
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
