Category Manager - Store Design - 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.

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.

• 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.
• Negotiation of terms and conditions for supplier contracts, managing inputs from operational stakeholders and liaising with legal team to ensure contracts signed within appropriate timescales, including contracting with legacy suppliers currently not under terms.
• Develop and implement regional procurement/sourcing processes to ensure ‘maverick’ spend minimised.
• Set-up and manage credit checking programme as part of risk…