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About the Role
This role partners with Category Managers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver commercial insights, supplier administration, inventory reporting, operational improvements, and strategic project support within a fast-paced environment. It provides critical execution capability across multiple categories, ensuring the successful delivery of key business initiatives while improving operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Analyze category, sales, and inventory data to support reporting and decision-making.
- Maintain category reporting across Lens, Contact Lens, and Audiology.
- Support supplier administration, onboarding, and ongoing supplier activities.
- Coordinate product setup, pricing, and range maintenance.
- Monitor inventory performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Provide day-to-day operational support to the Category team across OPSM, L&P, and EyeQ.
Requirements
- Experience in retail, category operations, buying, merchandise planning, analysis, or project coordination.
- Strong analytical and commercial mindset with confidence working with data and reporting.
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive, hands-on, and solutions-focused.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Location
- North Sydney
Work Type
- Fixed-term
- Hybrid
Benefits
- Wellness amenities including a reformer Pilates studio, Yoga classes, Personal training, and Bike storage.
- Abundance of local cafes, a major shopping centre, and close to public transport facilities.
- Volunteering with our charity partner OneSight, including volunteer leave and iChampion ambassador opportunities.
- Wide range of career opportunities across the EssilorLuxottica network.
- Complimentary full-time concierge services offering an exclusive hotel-style experience!
- Options for a hybrid working environment.
About the Company
- EssilorLuxottica is a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames and sunglasses.
- We bring together the expertise of two industry pioneers, one in advanced lens technologies and the other in the craftsmanship of iconic eyewear, creating a vertically integrated business that is uniquely positioned to address the world’s evolving vision needs.
- We craft exclusive eyewear brands Ray-Ban, Oakley, Oliver Peoples, Persol, Costa and more, alongside esteemed licensed brands such as Tiffany & Co, Burberry, and CHANEL whilst our cutting-edge lenses Varilux and Transitions lead the industry in innovation.
- In Australia and New Zealand, we operate the iconic retail and eye care brands: Sunglass Hut, Oakley, OPSM, Ray-Ban and Laubman & Pank.
- Every day, EssilorLuxottica’s 190,000 employees in 150 countries work towards a common mission to help people see more and be more.
Equal Opportunity
- As an inclusive, team-first company, our people are at the core of everything we do.
- We care deeply about creating a workplace where our team members feel valued, respected and empowered.
- We are committed to providing equal opportunity regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or life stage.
- We value flexibility and encourage our team members to work in ways that meet their work/life commitments and support their wellbeing.
- We work hard to create a safe and inclusive environment for all, and most importantly, we're all about creating better experiences - for our customers and for each other.