Flagship Visual Merchandise Specialist

MECCA; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous employee discount

Product allowance

Job summary

MECCA is seeking an experienced Flagship Visual Merchandising Specialist to lead VM across our Flagship network in Australia. You will translate creative direction into execution priorities and influence teams to bring VM strategy to life, driving campaigns, launches and experiences that elevate customer storytelling.

You will build strong partnerships across stores, leadership, VM, Marketing and Creative teams, coaching capability and ensuring VM standards are met while delivering exceptional

Qualifications

• 7+ years' Visual Merchandising experience in large-format retail.
• Experience delivering campaigns, activations, installations and experiential retail initiatives.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercial acumen with a customer-first mindset.
• Ability to translate strategy into clear actions across locations.

Responsibilities

• Lead VM across Flagship network, ensuring campaigns and activations deliver experiences.
• Be the key connection between our Support Centre VM and Flagship stores, translating direction into execution priorities.
• Build partnerships across Flagship stores, Retail Leadership, VM, Marketing and Creative teams.
• Coach and build capability within Flagship VM teams without direct people leadership.
• Drive VM standards and execution frameworks for key campaigns and customer moments.
• Use insights to identify opportunities to elevate engagement and category performance.

Skills

Visual Merchandising leadership

Stakeholder management

Influence across teams

Strategic & hands-on execution

Job description

Our Flagship stores are where MECCA comes to life at its biggest and boldest. We’re looking for an experienced Flagship Visual Merchandise Specialist to lead Visual Merchandising across our Flagship network, helping Bourke Street, Chadstone, George Street and future Flagship locations set the benchmark for exceptional customer experiences and VM excellence.

This is an individual contributor role, but one with significant reach and influence across the business. You’ll work in close partnership with Flagship VM teams, Retail Leadership, Store Managers and Support Centre teams, using your expertise, relationships and influence to create alignment and drive exceptional VM execution across the network.

The Role You Could Play:

You’ll be the key connection between our Support Centre VM function and Flagship stores, translating creative direction into clear execution priorities and influencing teams to bring our VM strategy to life.

Lead VM excellence across our Flagship network, ensuring campaigns, launches, activations and always‑on experiences deliver exceptional customer experiences and compelling retail storytelling.

Build strong partnerships across Flagship stores, Retail Leadership, VM, Marketing and Creative teams, using your influence to create alignment and drive exceptional execution.

Coach, guide and build capability within Flagship VM teams, without direct people leadership responsibility, helping strengthen VM standards, visual storytelling and experiential execution.

Drive operational excellence and consistency through clear VM standards, ways of working and execution frameworks, ensuring stores are ready for key campaigns and customer moments.

Use customer, commercial and operational insights to identify opportunities that elevate engagement, category performance and the future Flagship experience.

What You Will Bring

You’re an experienced Visual Merchandising professional who knows how to lead through influence, partnership and expertise. You’re confident building credibility with a broad range of stakeholders and bringing people along on the journey, even when they don’t directly report to you.

• 7+ years’ Visual Merchandising experience within large-format retail environments, ideally within Flagship, premium or destination retail.
• Strong experience delivering campaigns, activations, installations and experiential retail initiatives.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working across multiple teams, locations and levels of leadership.
• Commercial acumen and a customer‑first mindset, with a strong understanding of how visual storytelling can influence customer experience and business performance.
• The ability to operate comfortably between strategic thinking and hands‑on execution, translating strategy into clear actions and building alignment across the business

Your Life At MECCA

Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirst mantra, we know that wouldn’t be possible without an incredible team that is guided by our MECCA values and motivated each and every day to be solutions focused, innovative, collaborative and adaptable, and have a bit of fun along the way!

Some of our other team member benefits include:

• Professional development programs and first‑class digitised learning offering
• Health and well‑being initiatives
• Reward and recognition programs
• Access to bonus and incentive programs
• Access to quarterly product allowance
• Generous discount to spoil yourselves and your immediate family, as well as a generous product allowance, subject to company policy.

And that’s just the beginning. From celebrating milestones to creating memorable moments, there are countless ways you’ll feel part of the MECCA story.

To learn more about life at MECCA Brands, follow us on LinkedIn at MECCA Brands or @lifeatmecca, or visit www.mecca.com.au/careers.