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About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded in 2013 byworldrenownedmakeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte TilburyCBE Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has transformed the global beauty industry with one mission: to empower everyone everywhere to look and feel like the most confident version of themselves. With oureasytouseeasytochooseeasytogifticonswevebecome one of the mosttalkedaboutbeauty brands on the planet - and the magic is only growing.

Todaywerea global beauty phenomenon scaling at record speed across 50 markets with over 3000 Dream Team members bringing the Tilbury magic to life every single day. Across the world our Retail Teams and Magic Offices workhandinhandto shape the Charlotte Tilbury experience
-from the glamour of London and the style capitals of Europeto the energy of the Americas the vibrant beauty hubs of the Middle East and thefastgrowinginnovation centres across APAC. Every region brings its own sparklecultureand community creating the unmistakable magic of Team Tilbury.

by creativityinnovationandindustryleadingtech. And as we continue to break records across countrieschannelsand categorieswerelooking for extraordinary talent to join us.

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.
• 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 management policy.
• Support the global Procurement Excellence team in rolling out key procurement/sourcing policies within the business.

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…