At MECCA, our Distribution Centre is the beating heart of our business, ensuring our customers receive their products seamlessly across Australia and New Zealand.
As Head of Transport, you will play a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering MECCA’s end-to-end transport strategy, ensuring safe, efficient, and cost-effective movement of goods from our global partners to our stores and customers.
The Role You Could Play
You will lead the Freight & Logistics function, driving operational excellence, commercial performance, and innovation across inbound and outbound transport networks.
Key responsibilities include:
Develop and execute a multi-year transport strategy aligned to MECCA’s growth and customer promise
Lead and inspire the Freight & Logistics team to deliver high performance and continuous improvement
Manage key freight, 3PL, and carrier relationships to optimise service, cost, and scalability
Drive operational excellence across inbound and outbound freight, improving delivery speed, reliability, and visibility
Ensure compliance with safety, Chain of Responsibility, and all transport legislation
What You Will Bring
You are a strategic and commercially minded transport leader who thrives in a fast-paced, customer-first environment.
Proven experience in transport,logistics, or supply chain leadership roles (5+ years)
Strong commercial acumen with experience managing budgets, cost-to-serve, and supplier contracts
Expertisein international freight, customs processes, and retail/ecommercelogistics
Experience managing freight forwarders, carriers, and 3PL providers
A strong safety mindset with knowledge of compliance and risk management in transport
Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills
Your Life At MECCA
Whilst we are singularly focused on our #CustomerFirstmantra, we know thatwouldn’tbe possible without an incredible team. Our people are guided by MECCA values and are motivated each day to be solutions-focused, innovative, collaborative, and adaptable — while having 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
There are also so many other ways in whichyou’llbe made to feel part of the MECCA story, as we love to celebrate, surprise, and delight our team along the way.
Since our very first day in 1997, our purpose has been to enable our customers to feel and look their best by offering them the world’s best line-up of beauty and skin-care brands (+ more), coupled with exceptional service. Fast forward to today, and we have over 5,000 MECCA team members across 100+ retail stores throughout Australia and New Zealand, a rapidly growing online business, two Distribution Centres, and a bustling Support Centre in the heart of Melbourne working to deliver on our purpose every single day.
Our ongoing growth is fuelled by opening new stores and reaching new customers, launching new products, and harnessing the latest technology to constantly innovate and evolve our concepts, experiences, and service offerings. Whether you join MECCA in one of our Retail stores, our Support Centre or our Distribution Centre (DC), you will be an integral part of the MECCA family.
Our Retail Store teams are known for their energy, passion and expertise; bringing MECCA to life and helping us deliver on our purpose across four unique concepts – MECCA Cosmetica, MECCA Maxima, MECCA and our online stores (mecca.com.au and meccabeauty.co.nz).
Working in our Support Centre will give you the opportunity to be part of high-impact, cross-functional projects, where you will get to immerse yourself in cutting-edge technologies and market-leading innovations. Not only do we work with over 150 of the best global beauty brands, we also develop, produce and distribute MECCA’s very own signature line of products. From supply chain to digital design, from software development to strategy, and everything in between, we are looking for diverse people from all backgrounds to continually challenge our way of thinking.
Last but certainly not least, our rapidly expanding DC teams are the backbone of our operations and are key to the delivery of a seamless customer experience through online fulfillment and ensuring our stores have the right products at the right time.
