Vm Manager - Eu

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.

Please note this is for a 12 month Fixed-Term Contract

We’re looking for a creative visionary to join us as VM Manager on a fixed-term contract! Wee are looking for you to bring innovation and exciting ideas to brand projects and campaigns. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in executing creative experiential VM with excellent project management skills. Key deliverables will be ‘out of home' creative projects that deliver engaging experiences to customers and drive brand awareness, as well as commercial brand projects that drive revenue, underpinned by an always on category focus to drive growth.

All contributions will align (both directly and indirectly) to executing the EU VM strategy. Collaboration and relationship building skills will be key to working closely with our internal global partners, external retail partners and suppliers, as well as colleagues of all levels across different teams in the business.

• Set, drive and deliver the creative, experiential strategy in line with the broader EU strategy to ensure all experiential activity is strategically planned and designed to deliver against objectives.
• Independent management of the creative process to ensure we deliver exceptional creative quality by translating global designs for EU specific projects through clear briefing, managing art workers and feeding back creatively to bring flair to projects with care and attention to detail.
• Execute innovative and world class experiential projects from ideation and design through to delivery in store, across and not limited to pop ups, promotional sites, brand launches, and even online. Projects will have strong impact, make meaningful connections with customers and drive commercial and brand success.
• Lead as a brand expert be the EU regions brand expert, protecting brand image across all channels and online and within projects to ensure consistency and best image.
• Own your CPA ensuring projects are on track and all stages accounted for, ability to give in depth project updates and manage expectations or flag where necessary.
• Confident presenting designs / prototypes to management for approval to progress projects at critical stages, receive feedback and put into action.
• Manage planograms and assortments across all experiential projects in collaboration with sales and marketing.
• Creative trailblazer through collaboration and influencing stakeholders in the business to ensure the EU is first to market with best-in-class retail concepts that reflect our brand identity.
• Build and maintain strong relationships internally with the wider EU team and our global partners across VM, SD, Brand, Legal and Procurement, as well as externally with retailers.
• Engaging suppliers to ensure are working with the best partners, using the best production processes and materials to deliver quality projects.
• VM budget contributor through forecasting your department stores NPD, experiential budget, recording spend, raising and tracking POs, monthly reviews and quarterly forecasting rounds you will always looking for cost efficiencies and ensuring spend is focused on the right thing, at the right time, in the right place.
• Prop & stock management you will oversee the storage, movement and…