Retail Manager - Travel Retail, Northern Europe

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; Paris; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension and life assurance

Medicash / EAP

Job summary

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is seeking an experienced Retail Manager to join the Travel Retail team covering the Northern Europe region. You will build retailer relationships, manage a field team of store-based managers and artists, and oversee budgets while forecasting sales and market share.

Travel to the Magic Office and stores across the region is required. Ideal candidates bring broad experience in Retail or Sales Management, strong budget and data analysis skills, and a proven ability to lead

Qualifications

• Must travel within region and to Magic Office regularly (roughly 40/60 split).
• Extensive experience in Retail or Sales Management, Travel Retail desirable.
• Strong people focus and ability to develop teams.
• Proven track record in negotiations and influencing others.
• Target-focused and results-driven.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Effective written and verbal communication with a structured approach.
• Excellent presentation skills and classroom delivery.
• Personable and approachable; builds rapport quickly.
• Self-starter; able to motivate oneself and others.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt; agility is key.
• French language is mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Define development and growth strategies with Head of Travel Retail, Europe for designated accounts and implement in stores.
• Deliver sell-out in line with forecast commitments.
• Identify and capitalise on opportunities to drive brand awareness, performance, and market share across the region.
• Build strong relationships with retailer contacts to optimise brand presence and negotiate joint plans.
• Provide regular business updates and market insights between stores and the Magic Office.
• Lead quarterly business reviews and external strategy meetings with insights and action plans.
• Recruit and lead high-performing Retail teams for store launches.
• Set ambitious sales targets and motivate field teams.
• Ensure training needs are met and foster inclusion and engagement.
• Collaborate with Marketing & VM to develop trade plans and campaigns.
• Forecast monthly staffing costs and manage budgets and travel expenses.
• Ensure in-store execution, stock availability, and price updates.

Skills

Retail Management

Sales Management

Negotiation

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication

Presentation Skills

Time Management

French Language

Self-Motivation

Job description

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury CBE 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.

12 Month FTC

About The Role

We're looking for an ambitious and experienced Retail Manager to join our fabulous, newly appointed Travel Retail team, focusing on the Northern Europe region.

Responsibilities include building retailer relationships, identifying commercial opportunities, leading a field team comprising of store-based business managers and retail artists and managing corresponding budgets, showcasing strong budget management capability and being confident in retail sales forecasting, reporting and data analysis. KPIs are retail sales achievement, market share gains, mystery shopping score and team turnover.

As a Retail Manager you will

Sales Objectives and Market Share Gains

• Define development and growth strategies with the Head of Travel Retail, Europe for the designated accounts and implement them successfully in stores.
• Deliver sell-out in line with forecast commitments.
• Identify and capitalise on opportunities to drive brand awareness, performance, and market share across the region.

Account Management

• Build strong relationships with retailer contacts to optimise brand presence, maximise share of voice, and negotiate industry-leading joint trading plans.
• Deliver regular business/sales updates and critical market insights, acting as the connection between our stores and the Magic Office.
• Lead quarterly business reviews and half-year external strategy meetings, producing strong insights and action-driven 360 plans.

High Performance Teams

• With the people partner, recruit high performing Retail teams for each store launch.
• Set ambitious and achievable sales targets to the field teams.
• Lead and inspire your team of business managers and retail artists.
• When needed, address performance and engagement needs identified, building an environment of inclusion and motivation within your defined area.
• Work alongside the field training manager to ensure commercial and development training needs are met within the region.

Brand Image Building and Launch of New Campaigns

• Work in close collaboration with Travel Retail Marketing & VM teams to develop trade plans and on-counter activities.
• Successfully launch and sustain new products and campaigns as per the global Travel Retail Marketing strategy.

Effective Commercial & Budget Management

• With the Head of Travel Retail, Europe, monthly retail forecasting by store.
• In alignment with finance and retailer partners, forecast and manage all retail staffing costs, including recommended FTEs, commissions and incentives management.
• Manage T&E budget, staying within approved monthly expenditure.

Operational Excellence

• Set standards for executional excellence, support new processes, and work cross-functionally to enhance brand presentation and in-store execution, including but not limited to assortment, stock availability on counter, price updates.

Requirements

• Must be able to travel within region and to Magic Office regularly. Roughly a 40/60 split
• Wide experience in Retail or Sales Management, with direct experience in Travel Retail desirable but not mandatory
• Strong people focus, team spirited and passionate about developing teams.
• Proven track record of successful negotiations & ability to influence others.
• Target-focused and results-driven.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Effective communicator, both written and verbal with a structured and organised approach
• Excellent presentation skills and classroom delivery
• Personable and approachable; able to build rapport quickly & effectively
• Self-starter; able to motivate oneself and others
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and adapt to changing priorities. Agility is key!
• Solution-oriented with ability to problem solve in a timely manner
• French language is mandatory

Benefits

• 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
• 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
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

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.

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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