Luxury fashion and swimwear brand scaling global retail operations
Zimmermann is a Sydney-based luxury fashion house operating 501–1,000 employees across showrooms, flagships, and e-commerce in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. The hiring acceleration (50 roles posted in 30 days) is concentrated in sales (58 open roles) and ops (20), while half the workforce sits at junior level—a hiring mix built for rapid store expansion and fulfillment scaling rather than engineering or product depth. Tech stack skews retail operations (Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Zendesk, WMS) with emerging analytics (BigQuery, Tableau, Looker Studio), and inventory accuracy dominates the pain-point list—shrinkage, stock discrepancies, and sold-outs appear repeatedly, signaling fulfillment and allocation friction across channels.
Notable leadership hires: Boutique director
Zimmermann designs and sells luxury ready-to-wear, resort, and swimwear collections globally. Founded in Sydney in 1991 by sisters Nicky and Simone Zimmermann, the brand operates standalone flagships on Madison Avenue and Melrose Place, maintains showrooms in Sydney, London, Paris, New York, and Los Angeles, and shows collections seasonally at New York Fashion Week. The company operates across e-commerce and physical retail in 16+ countries, with active hiring across the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, US, Mexico, China, and Southeast Asia. Current focus includes seasonal collection launches, new showroom openings, omnichannel fulfillment optimization, and loyalty programs.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud for storefront and order management, Magento for product catalog, Emarsys and Braze for marketing automation, Google Analytics and BigQuery for analytics, and Zendesk for customer support.
Rosebery, NSW, Sydney, Australia. The company was founded there in 1991 and maintains its design and operational base in Sydney.
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