Limitless potential.
Merchandise Manager - GPC Asia Pacific
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Location Rowville, Australia
- Category Product
- Job ID R26_0000029532
- Date posted 09/09/2026
- Brand GPC Asia Pacific (APAC)
- Status Full time
- Job Type Hybrid
- Exciting role in a successful and expanding business
- Greatest supplier of automotive aftermarket parts and accessories
- Free parking
Make an impact. Provide inspirational leadership. Drive strategy, sales, profitability, budgets, pricing, range reviews, team leadership.
The Opportunity:
A rare opportunity to lead one of our most exciting, high growth categories. As the Merchandise Manager for Four-Wheel Drive & Adventure, you will have end-to-end accountability for category strategy, sales, profitability, and team leadership. This role is ideally suited to a commercially astute leader who can combine category management expertise with a genuine passion for the 4WD and outdoor adventure lifestyle.
About you:
You are a commercially astute leader with a proven ability to grow sales, profit, and category performance. Combining strong strategic, analytical, and stakeholder management skills with a genuine passion for the 4WD and outdoor lifestyle, you create high-performing teams and deliver exceptional customer and business outcomes.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Strong leadership skills and a proven ability to develop high-performing teams in Category Manager or Merchandise Manager roles.
- Commercially astute with deep category management experience.
- Strategic, customer-focused thinking and strong planning capability.
- Energy, enthusiasm, and a positive approach that helps engage and inspire those around you.
- Creativity and a willingness to challenge conventional thinking to unlock new opportunities.
- The ability to effectively balance competing priorities and drive performance across both Retail and Trade channels.
- Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
- A curious mindset and a drive to identify opportunities for growth and improvement.
- Resilience, adaptability, and tenacity in delivering results.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, supported by attention to detail.
- Collaborative leadership style and commitment to achieving shared business outcomes.
- Build genuine relationships while fostering an enjoyable and high-performing team culture.
About you:
You will be results focussed, with a dynamic, go-getter mentality, ensuring your category always exceeds customer expectations, and performs above target. With a strong commercial background, you'll drive a results-focussed, inclusive culture within your team.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- An inspirational leadership style and a strong service orientation
- A strong commercial acumen and merchandise/category background
- Strategic thinking and planning skills
- Outstanding communication skills and relationship building abilities
- A strong influencer and change agent
- Analytical skills with a keen eye for detail
- A team player, who is focussed on success
Looking after you:
We are committed to ensuring our people are well looked after. In addition to a rewarding and challenging career, we will provide:
- Staff discounts across the GPC Asia Pacific group of Companies
- Private health insurance discounts
- Employee assistance program
- A highly safety conscious work environment
- 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
GPC Asia Pacific
Movement is in our DNA. We are GPC Asia Pacific: one of the largest industrial and automotive aftermarket parts and service suppliers in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. Our iconic brands include Repco, NAPA & McLeod Accessories.
Yet we are more than just a parts and service company. We propel people forward.
With over 8000 team members in Asia Pacific, and 60k+ globally, being part of Genuine Parts Company won’t leave you standing still. Reach is key to our success. Learn more about our business online at www.gpcasiapac.com
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GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.
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