Category Manager - Store Design - 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover

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 are looking for a dynamic individual, with proven experience of working in a fast-paced environment, ideally from within the luxury Cosmetic or Personal Care industry, with a large global focus on e-commerce.   The Category Manager will be responsible for sourcing and cost reduction within the Indirect categories, with a specific focus on Store Design, permanent fixtures.

This global role will liaise with regional teams across the UK, EMEA, US and APAC, to deliver the Store Design category strategy plans, while supporting sourcing for global contracts. The role will manage all areas of Store Design, and travel will be required.

The ideal candidate will have a broad spectrum of Indirect Procurement experience across several categories, with specific expertise and experience within the Store Design categories, around design, and fixtures and fittings installation in offline luxury stores and concessions within retail department stores.

As a Category Manager 12 Month FTC you will

• Responsibility for development and delivery of the Store Design sourcing strategy, working with regional leads to deliver a category plan in agreement with the Global Procurement Director.
• Spend Mapping of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy, including ‘deep dive’ analysis of spend within the category across all geographic regions.
• Taking a lead role in working with stakeholders to develop a local sourcing plan and project roadmap.
• Project managing regular supplier cost initiative meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as Supplier Relationship Management at a regional level.
• As part of category strategy identify risks and consolidation opportunities within supply base, including specification of ‘needs’ vs. ‘wants’.
• Analyse the current supply base with key operational stakeholders and present alternate solutions that optimise business growth and improve business efficiencies. Including phasing out poor performing suppliers a developing and onboarding new suppliers who can better support the aggressive business growth plans.
• Developing and owning, in agreement with the Head of Indirect Procurement, Cost Initiative reduction targets on a 12-month rolling annual basis.
• Forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on all assigned cost initiatives monthly, including ownership within the Cost Initiative pipeline tracker, and associated rebate tracking.
• New supplier sourcing and tendering programs with development and monitoring of full 12-month sourcing pipeline.

Who you will work with

Procurement, Store Design etc.

About you

COMPETENCY MUST HAVES:

• Learning Curve - Capability to quickly take on board and disseminate new data/info around operational business needs and quickly develop into a sourcing plan of action.
• Attention to Detail – Able to work in a fast-paced environment, without making unchecked errors across a wide range of cost initiative projects at the same time.
• Managing Priorities - Ability to commit and deliver against deadlines agreed, where there will be multiple priorities to consider and manage.
• Project Management – Must be conversant with both sourcing tenders/RFP processes as well as VAVE project management with suppliers. Ability to manage both external and internal stakeholders to deliver a project on time, with significant associated savings.
• Commercial acumen - Must have strong negotiation skills with clear demonstrable consistent cost saving achievements both from tendering and negotiation, as well as project managing value engineering cost initiatives.
• Autonomy – Must be able to take responsibility for own resource time, prioritising highest value/ROI projects and ownership of delivery, with minimal direct support.

EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS:

• Thorough knowledge of the cosmetics market, supplier capabilities within SD and competitor activity at a regional level.

•  Previous procurement experience within Cosmetic or Personal care business.
• Previous experience and expertise supporting both SD Indirect category is absolute must, plus ideally having one other category expertise in one of the following: Marketing, PR & Events, Tech, Influencer Agencies, Creative production, Travel.
• Must have developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews.
• Quarterly KPI development and Supplier Monitoring as part of QBR process.
• Must be conversant with and developed strong tender briefs within large value complex projects.
• Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
• Sound legal contract knowledge and experience.
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous and/or incomplete information to achieve a significant cost benefit result.
• Demonstrated use of ‘source to contract’ e-sourcing tools a distinct advantage.

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

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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