Business Development Manager

Bachelor of Business Administration (Management)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Duties & Responsibilities

• Experience in commercial & ideally marketing background as well.
• Strong managerial skills as they will manage 2 area managers and almost 80 beauty advisors.
• Analytical skills, strong entrepreneurial skills and strong interpersonal skills as they will be leading our partnership with key retailer Sephora.

He/she will be responsible for:

• Sell in / sell out targets delivery of the BU.
• BA productivity for all Sephora doors.
• Trade animations and online animations.
• Forecasting and budget management for promos and BA salaries.
• Understand the key projects we are driving locally and adapt as relevant for the local market.
• Understanding the future thinking in our categories and work out how we can make it a reality in the trade locally.

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in business development and/or shopper marketing/insights roles.
• Experience working with key retailers.
• Ideally beauty experience but not essential if experience in retail category management is strong across other sectors.
• At least 7 years experience in commercial & ideally marketing.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong relationship building skills with the ability to reason from multiple perspectives: shopper and/or consumer view, retailer ambitions, business needs, and providing mutually beneficial solutions.
• Influencing and communication skills key supported by the above attributes.
• A hunger to constantly upgrade knowledge of the market today and future trends and to use this information to build concrete category growth plans for our retailers.
• A balance between a visionary view, long term planning with a short term execution mindset in order to achieve tangible business results.

Stakeholders

• EXTERNAL Key clients, agencies for instore reinvention projects.
• Self-motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Hungry to come up with new, creative ideas always thinking outside of the box with a curious and visionary mindset.