Brand Manager - Beauty
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Responsibilities
You will work within the Coty Beauty Marketing Team where you will support the Marketing Manager in implementing the operational marketing strategy in the UK market across our makeup, skincare or fragrance brands.
You will have a high level input (together with the Marketing Manager) in creating the future UK&I strategy for an exciting portfolio. You are the guardian of the brand equities and will ensure flawless execution in line with the fashion house & global guidelines.
You will have responsibility for the commercial plan, ensuring that we minimally meet our financial commitments. A constant understanding of the commercial delivery is required to course correct plans, leading to maximizing return on marketing investment.
You will deploy the Global Strategy in the UK markets and launch the NPDs developed by our Global teams. You will take full ownership of the brands P&L, business/ local brand management and overall execution of Marketing programs including launches in the UK & Ireland. You will constantly monitor the Marketing Promotional program, ensuring all promotional objectives are executed on brand, on time and on budget.
Your strong communication skills are vital to align all internal stakeholders, including functions such as sales, COMEX, finance, visual merchandising and supply chain. The partnership with global marketing needs to be built on trust, constant communication and aligned objectives.
Your main focus:
- Develop and deliver local initiative launch plans in collaboration with internal key stakeholders (e.g. sales team, trade marketing, brand finance) and external partners (e.g. media agency).
- Ownership of brand budget, ensuring effective and accurate budget management including administration of all invoices, monthly accruals and budget trackers, this will also include P&L steering to make sure all brand investments are delivering vs target KPIs and profitability targets.
- Managing all brand media, including briefs, agency relationships, global and fashion house approvals and internal alignment, with support from the Marketing Manager.
- Working with the internal & international merchandising teams to manage the design and production of local POS elements, ensure they follow both Global guidelines and UK market requirements.
- Work closely with internal PR/ Influencer Marketing team to drive consumer engagement and off and online reach
- Development and delivery of brand presentations to Internal and external stakeholders, including retailers, media owners and internal teams.
YOU ARE A COTY FIT
You like to contribute to the positive marketing team culture. As a Brand Manager you have a willingness to share and help your colleagues to succeed and you get energy from working in a fast-paced, diverse and international environment. Other than that, you:
- Have a degree or equivalent qualification in a Business-related degree preferable
- Have 2+ years in the beauty industry or a similar role and an understanding/appreciation of makeup, skincare or fragrance category and retail environment required
- Strong financials acumen, understanding the details of P&L drivers and management
- Have worked with the Microsoft Office suite with strong working knowledge of PowerPoint and excel
- Analytical mindset: A doer who proactively seeks improvement, is a solution provider and a problem solver
- Excellence in Execution; Takes responsibility for the quality of all deliverables, contributes to doing things better and faster
- Leader mentality, owns it, drives it. Sees opportunities to fix/ improve processes, and drives stakeholders to support deliver this change
As our Brand Manager some of the benefits you will receive are:
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + a day off for your birthday
- Pension Scheme, with 8% employer contribution (subject to enrolment)
- Life Assurance Program (8x your salary).
- Private medical insurance (taxable benefit) life insurance and critical illness insurance
- Health and wellbeing platforms
RECRUITMENT PROCESS
- A telephone/online introductory meeting follows.
- A first online/in-person interview
- A second interview including case study
- You will receive a proposal with the terms of employment.
Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skincare, and body care. At Coty, we celebrate the entire human kaleidoscope and cultivate a culture of fearless kindness. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against any candidate or employee and strive to be an open, inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees can be their authentic self. Join us in making over the world of beauty! #J-18808-Ljbffr
- Location:
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £80,000 - £100,000
- Category:
- Other
