Assistant Merchandise Manager

**Newly refurbished offices located in Mt Wellington**:

- ** Monday - Friday: Hybrid + free onsite parking**:

- ** Stable company with Staff discounts and company benefits**:

- ** Progression Opportunities**

**About the role**:
Reporting to the Merchandise Manager Tools), you will provide support to the NZ Merchandise Team in the growth and profitability, whilst having a strong focus on administrative processes. Furthermore, you will assist in the development and implementation of category plans for National Trade Promotions, Catalogues, Flyers, and other Trade Events.

Benefits include:

- Generous staff discounts across the multiple GPC Asia Pacific brands
- The opportunity to join a progressive global company that continually strives to remain the number one in the automotive aftermarket
- An inclusive team environment; our team are important members of the GPC family
- We proactively support our working parents in a variety of meaningful ways, and our parental leave top-up allowance is one of the ways we do this
- Paid volunteer leave allowing you to give back to your chosen charity/community organisation
- Access to GPC’s exciting employee platform MOVE, unlocking amazing discounts at top retailers, business announcements, e-cards and our employee recognition program, plus so much more

Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is the Global Leader in automotive aftermarket parts distribution, encompassing a number of significant international businesses in USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand including Repco, Napa Auto Parts and Sulco.

**Key Responsibility Areas**:
You will be supporting the Merchandise Manager and Category Planning Coordinator in the overall governance of Trade promotional activities and events. Support all members of the Automotive Merchandise team with promotional planning, systems maintenance, catalogue activities and help administer processes, along with:

- Assist in developing and arranging yearly planner, Promotional Advice Sheet (PAS) set up and general communication regarding Trade promotional activities.
- Assist the Automotive Merchandise team in creating publications including catalogue layout and product space allocation, as well as relevant Marketing data in the PAS for Trade catalogues. For Retail catalogues, upload the requested offers into the inhouse system (Offer Builder)
- Follow-up the category team to ensure all required work has been completed correctly.
- Review of catalogue proofs as required by the Automotive Merchandise team.
- Assist in data generation, publication proofing, supplier promotional tracking and reporting.
- Systems maintenance for the Automotive Merchandise team:

- Prepare vendor cost change impacts and provide analysis (eg. Item Class 2 breakdowns).
- Send approved cost changes to Item Master and ensure they are loaded correctly.
- Loading new product data and assisting with maintenance of existing product data.
- Prepare and submit supersession and product reorder code changes on advice from merchandise team as required.

**About you**:

- Previous administrative experience.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Intermediate Microsoft suite capabilities including PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- Team player who takes pride in their work and the team’s success.
- Detail focus and deadline driven.
- Ability to develop strong business relationships
- Self-motivator, who is highly adaptable to changing business requirements.

We have lots of projects on the horizon within the business and this is a particularly exciting time to be part of our NZ Merchandise Team - Send your CV to our Careers Team by clicking APPLY.