Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager - UK

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 superstar Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager, with excellent attention to detail and organisational skills who can relish a challenge – whether it be executing on a tight deadline or heading up a project across our UK function!

You will be responsible for delivering best in class retail experiences with global impact, across the UK.

Please note this role is based from our Central London offices. We work a hybrid model with 2-3 days in the office.

As a Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager you will:

• Drive the Visual Merchandising strategy to support achieving the overarching UK strategy and overall business objectives.
• Lead on campaign allocation for all NPD launches from managing global delivery of assets through to execution and managing all aspects of standard counter updates.
• Lead on new distribution and support on new Free Standing Store openings, ensuring successful new openings to high VM standards across the UK. Reviewing areas of opportunity and improvement to support the distribution strategy
• Manage CPA's to ensure launched are on time and on budget.
• You will own the VM budget, bringing all projects in on time and in budget, with an always on focus on budget management and reporting, with monthly forecasting reviews.
• 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.
• You have a natural curiosity and a positive mindset, with the ability to think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts that fit within the Charlotte Tilbury brand.
• You will confidently lead our UK VM Executive as well as supporting and collaborating in a team environment.

Who you will work with:

• Reporting to our wonderful Senior Visual Merchandising Manager, you will work closely with the team as well as the wider UK function.
• This role will work closely with external retailer partners and suppliers, as well as colleagues of all levels across different teams in the business. You will also confidently and proactively lead our VM executive.

About you:

• You will have demonstrable experience in Visual Merchandising at similar level. Ideally, you have experience within Beauty/Retail industries.
• High attention to detail and project management. You need to be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously with short and long lead times to meet deadlines. Ability to juggle different pressing priorities with ease.
• You are able to balance design, with operational needs and budget objectives resulting in exceptional designs and an improved customer experience.
• You are people focused, a strong and inspiring leader you have a passion for leading and growing your team!
• 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.
• You have a natural curiosity and a positive mindset, with the ability to think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts that fit within the Charlotte Tilbury brand.
• You have an impressive portfolio and a passion for outstanding creative work! With experience with a range of design packages; Adobe (Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign) + 3D sketchup (desirable). You can read CAD plans with ease!

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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