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 VM Assistant Manager with excellent people and project management skills who will support the VM Manager to help drive, deliver & execute the EU VM strategy.
You will be responsible for delivering best in class retail experiences with global impact, across all EU Department Stores. 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. This role 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 our Assistant VM Manager you will

• Strategic support for EU department stores driving our strategy to support achieving the overarching EU 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 till units to large scale promotional sites and windows.
• Support & lead on new store openings and distribution being the flagship guardian and retailer lead ensuring successful new openings, and high VM standards across the Department store B&M estate, constantly reviewing areas of opportunity and improvement to support the distribution strategy.
• Be the experiential and promotional expert for Department stores across EU 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.
• Manage the EU VM Assistant ensuring a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• General admin document management and presenting plans for sign off, managing processes and ways of working, PO’s and budget tracking

Who you will work with

• You will report directly into our wonderful VM Manager, EU, with one direct report
• You will work closely alongside the EU Marketing team, PR, Global, in region agencies; as well as cross functionally with the wider EU Function.

About you

• You have demonstrable VM experience at an Assistant Manager level in a similar role; ideally within Beauty/Retail.
• Confident in Adobe creative suite (specifically Illustrator & Indesign)
• People focused - you are a strong and inspiring leader, with the ability to empower, coach and develop.
• Experienced project manager with a commercial mind set being key, with a creative flair!
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with forecasting and budget management experience
• Confident managing multiple stakeholders of all levels, you can influence with ease!
• Organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• You are a strong collaborator and work well in a fast paced environment; you can pivot with ease, bringing a positive attitude!
• An excellent communicator, you can effectively articulate your point of view and know how to build strong cross functional relationships.
• You work well under pressure, you can ruthlessly prioritise and know how to influence up and work in an agile environment.
• Have a flexible and professional attitude, you are hungry to learn and welcome challenge!
• Have exceptional organisational and prioritising skills, with great attention to detail and is results-driven.

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.

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