Merchandise, Planning and Trading Manager

Location: melbourne
Salary: Base + Super + Bonus
Job Type: permanent
Contact: Maisie Sheffield
About New Era
New Era is a global lifestyle brand at the meeting point of sport, fashion and culture, with a 100-year heritage. It works with the world’s biggest sporting organisations and with athletes, artists, musicians and creators. In recent years it has grown beyond headwear into a full lifestyle brand covering apparel and accessories. In Australia and New Zealand, New Era is now speeding up its direct-to-consumer growth and investing in a stronger, more commercially driven ecommerce business.
The team values ownership, working together and is a fast-moving, growing environment where people are encouraged to bring ideas, challenge convention and help build the processes for the next stage of growth.

About the Role
As Merchandise Planning & Trading Manager, you’ll be the commercial owner of New Era’s DTC ecommerce range. You’ll make sure the right products are ranged, bought, launched and replenished to get the most out of revenue, inventory and profit.
Reporting to the Head of Digital, you’ll strengthen the merchandise planning and trading function. You’ll build a more robust annual merchandise plan and work closely with the Product, Operations, Logistics, Marketing and Digital teams to grow the business. This is a newly shaped, high-impact role for a commercial operator who loves product and is endlessly curious about what customers want.
Key responsibilities include:
  • Building seasonal range and line plans across Headwear, Apparel and Accessories
  • Owning DTC Open-to-Buy, demand forecasting, buy recommendations and stock allocation
  • Managing inventory health, including stock turn, weeks cover, replenishment and risk
  • Owning the ecommerce trading calendar and running weekly and monthly trading reviews
  • Analysing sell-through, sales velocity and gross margin to recommend promotions, markdowns and replenishment
  • Driving P&L outcomes across product costs, margins and category growth
  • Reviewing local and global collections to set ecommerce ranging priorities
  • Aligning product, inventory, marketing and onsite experiences to deliver successful launches
  • Overseeing ecommerce operations, including onsite merchandising, product discovery and conversion improvement (CRO) priorities
  • Leading and developing an Ecommerce Trading Operations Specialist

About You
You’re a commercially sharp planning and trading professional who enjoys both the numbers and the product. You take ownership without waiting to be asked, you’re comfortable when things are ambiguous, and you like building structure as a business scales.
You’ll bring:
  • 5+ years’ experience in Merchandise Planning, Buying, Trading or Ecommerce
  • A strong retail background, ideally in larger, complex businesses
  • Proven experience in assortment planning, forecasting, OTB and inventory management
  • Strong commercial and analytical skills, including advanced Excel
  • Experience with Shopify and SAP (or comparable systems); Power BI or Tableau is a plus
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across Product, Operations and Ecommerce
  • A passion for product, customer behaviour and the sport, lifestyle and streetwear space
  • Resilience, adaptability and the drive to perform at pace
  • A tertiary qualification in Business, Commerce, Retail or similar (preferred)

Culture & Perks
New Era trusts its people to take ownership, test ideas and deliver results. You’ll join at an exciting point in its DTC journey, with real scope to shape how the ecommerce business plans, trades and grows.
Perks include:
  • An attractive package including bonus
  • Access to exclusive brand events and product perks
  • Career growth within an iconic global brand

How to Apply
Click APPLY or contact Maisie Sheffield at Six Degrees Executive at maisies@sde.com.au for a confidential discussion.

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