**About Us**
With 100 years operational experience, GPC Asia Pacific is the largest automotive aftermarket parts supplier in Australia and New Zealand, supported by Genuine Parts Company in North America, owner of the NAPA parts distribution business. GPC Asia Pacific is the parent company of standout brands such as Repco and NAPA Australia.
Every day we deliver careers and experiences that are both challenging and rewarding. We have fun at work and celebrate our achievements and milestones, big and small. We foster an environment where we focus on results and continuous improvement and our people share our passion.
**The Role**:
Reporting to the Merchandise Manager, the Merchandise Assistant will support the Category Team in the administration of a specific category, whilst having a strong focus on marketing activities, administrative processes, and data analytics.
**Duties include**:
- Support all members of the category team
- Assist with loading of images and catalogue layouts
- General marketing support
- Administer processes relating to the category
- Manage product data related activities including vendor cost changes, clearance excess reporting, product data and pricing maintenance
- Assist with retail and trade promotional builds and ensure deadlines are met
- Assist with event and promotional planning
- Data base management
- Compile weekly reporting
**About You**:
- Previous marketing administration experience
- Familiar with marketing principles or exposure to retail/trade marketing
- High level excel skills
- Retail experience desirable
- Strong organisational skills and able to juggle a number of constantly changing priorities
- Good attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Able to work effectively without close supervision, with a flexible approach
- Studies in marketing/merchandise an advantage
**Some of the reasons we love working at GPC**:
- Part of a global organisation, yet you feel part of a family
- Successful, stable, growing business
- Support iconic and emerging Australian brands: Repco, NAPA, AMX, Sparesbox and more
- Attractive product discounts across all GPC AP businesses
- Strong rewards & recognition programs
- A supportive team environment, where we work with supremely talented people
- Access for team members and their families to our Employee Assistance Program
- Career development and internal employment opportunities across the group
- Strong values-based foundations
- Innovation and forward moving are a reality
- 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!
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.