Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

We’re looking for a passionate and experienced Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager with excellent people and project management skills who will support the VM Manager to help drive, deliver & execute the EMEA VM strategy.

We have two exciting opportunities, one for an Assistant VM Manager to join our Northern Europe team and for an Assistant VM Manager to join our Southern Europe team!

You will be responsible for delivering best in class retail experiences with global impact, across either Southern or Northern Europe. Your key deliverables will be VM campaigns, new store openings and promotional projects on time and to budget. We are looking for someone who can manage complexity and pace with strong budgeting and prioritisation skills. These positions will work closely with external retailer partners and suppliers, as well as colleagues of all levels across different teams in the business, so collaboration and relationship building skills will be key, as well as management skills to manage one direct report.

As a Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager you will

• Strategic support for either Southern Europe or Northern Europe Speciality doors, driving our strategy to support achieving the overarching EMEA VM strategy and overall business objectives.
• Head up campaign launches from managing global delivery of assets through to execution in store delivery, managing all aspects from business-as-usual updates to all speciality promotional sites and activations.
• Support & lead on new store openings and additional distribution. Be the retailer lead on speciality launches ensuring successful new openings and high VM standards across either Northern or Southern Europe.
• Managing CPA’s to ensure on timely launches with the VM executive as well as constantly reviewing areas of opportunity and improvement to support the distribution strategy.
• Be the experiential and promotional expert for across either Northern or Southern Europe alongside the VM Manager, executing best in class promo projects of all sizes and scope with a futuristic and omni-channel approach.

• VM budget guardian: bringing all projects in on time and in budget, with an always on focus on budget management and reporting, with quarterly forecasting reviews.
• Building strong relations with Retail partners across multiple countries within either the Southern or Northern Europe estate.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at any one time, including new distribution, expansions, business as usual campaigns & promotional activations across multiple retail partners.
• Ability to work on complex projects such a expansions and fixture upsizing across multiple countries.
• Manage the EU VM Executive ensuring on time in-store NPD campaigns as well as a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• General admin document management managing, leading processes and ways of working, PO’s and budget tracking.

Who you will work with

• Reporting in to the VM Manager – either for Southern Europe or Northern Europe, working alongside some highly creative and talented individuals within our wider VM & Store Design EMEA team.
• One direct report, VM Executive – Southern Europe
• You will also work cross functionally, with teams such as Commercial, Retail, VM, PR & Global, as well as external suppliers and partners.

About you:

• You have demonstrable experience in a similar role within Visual Merchandising, ideally within Beauty or with European retailers.
• Confident in Adobe creative suite (specifically Illustrator & Indesign) and an experienced Project Manager.
• You are people focused- a strong and inspiring manager, you have a commercial mind set, with a creative flair!
• An excellent communicator: confident and comfortable presenting, able to influence and effectively articulate your point of view. You have exceptional organisational skills and can manage multiple stakeholders with ease!
• You thrive working to pace, you are able to ruthlessly prioritise and can manage multiple deadlines at anyone time with ease.
• Forecasting and budget management experience
• Confident managing multiple stakeholders of all levels

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

Why join us?

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your fury friend to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

If you want to learn more about life at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty please follow our LinkedIn page!

Benefits

• Be a part of this values driven, high growth, magical journey with an ultimate vision to empower everyone, everywhere to be the best version of themselves

• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey
• Financial security and planning with our pension and life assurance for all
• Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs and regular social connects with colleagues
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog-friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, our mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

If you want to learn more about life at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty please follow our LinkedIn page!