Assistant Business Manager - Gucci

Coty; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty company in Camden Town is seeking an experienced Assistant Manager to support the Business Manager in achieving sales objectives. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in beauty, particularly in makeup artistry, and should excel in team management. Key responsibilities include motivating the team to meet sales targets and building strong customer relationships. This role offers fantastic discounts, a generous pension contribution, and well-being support policies.

Benefits

Fantastic discounts

8% Employer pension contribution

Generous family and wellbeing support policies

Day off on your birthday

Qualifications

• Experience in leading a team within beauty retail.
• Strong passion for makeup and luxury brands.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Support Business Manager in achieving sales targets.
• Build relationships with customers to sell and upsell.
• Act as a brand ambassador and enforce grooming guidelines.

Skills

Team management

Makeup artistry

Sales experience

Relationship building

Commercial awareness

Job description

The Assistant Manager will be responsible for supporting the Business Manager to deliver an overall sales objective as well as ensuring excellence of execution for their account. Assisting in managing and motivating their team. This role requires the individual to represent the Business Manager when they are not in store. The individual should have a strong sales background and proven experience in beauty with a high level of make‑up artistry and preferred fragrance knowledge. Your main focus :

• Support BM to coach and motivate the team to achieve monthly sales targets and maintain company benchmarks on ASP, Sales Mix and Split
• Build relationships with customers to influence and sell and upsell
• Lead by example be a brand ambassador, protecting the equity for Coty brands and adhere to Company uniform and grooming guidelines and ensure the team do so
• Use of iPad for email, reporting and VM guidelines
• Commercial awareness - Coty business performance, competitor activity and market share

Within our Retail teams we're a magnificent medley of humanity, drawing inspiration from the vast fountain of knowledge and creativity that a diverse population offers. At Coty, everyone's free to express who they are and who they want to be. With fearless kindness underpinning every action and decision, we unite and include, enabling our people to thrive and carve out the career they aspire to.

As an experienced Assistant Business Manager working in beauty retail, you have a deep passion for makeup and luxury brands and enjoys owning and driving the business as it was your own. You get energy from working in a fast‑paced and diverse environment.

• Have experience leading and supporting managing a team within beauty
• Strong knowledge and experience in makeup artistry. Fragrance experience would also be desirable
• Strong sales background; working towards and managing targets
• Ability to build strong relationships with Business Manager, Store Managers and Area Manager

COTY is the global leader in fragrance and number three in color cosmetics. COTY's products are sold in over 150 countries around the world. COTY and its brands are committed to a range of social causes as well as seeking to minimize its impact on the environment. At Coty, we celebrate the entire human kaleidoscope and cultivate a culture of fearless kindness. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against any candidate or employee and strive to be an open, inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees can be their authentic self.

• Access to My Coty Shop with fantastic discounts
• 8% Employer pension contribution
• Generous family and wellbeing support policies
• Day off on your birthday