National Account Executive - Global Travel Retail

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative beauty brand is seeking a Sales Account Executive to join their dynamic Global Travel Retail team. This role offers the chance to drive business performance, collaborate with retailers, and contribute to the brand's impressive growth. The ideal candidate will possess strong numerical and analytical skills, a proactive mindset, and a passion for the beauty industry. With a hybrid work model and a vibrant company culture, this position is perfect for those eager to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment. Join a team that empowers everyone to be their best selves and be part of a magical journey in the beauty world.

Benefits

25 Days Holiday

Inclusive Parental Leave

Pension and Life Assurance

Wellness Benefits

Dog-Friendly Days

Generous Product Discount

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role within a National Accounts team.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Prepare weekly sales reports and identify retail opportunities.
• Build strong relationships with retail partners for successful NPD launches.

Skills

Numerical Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Excel Skills

PowerPoint Skills

Education

Degree in Business or Related Field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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.

About the role

We’re looking for an ambitious Sales Account Executives to join our fabulous Global Travel Retail commercial team.

The successful candidate will help drive the business in stores whilst also liaising with retailers to deliver financial results, maintain a strong brand position within the market and continue the brand’s dynamic growth. You’ll have a commercial mindset with a natural ability to reach creative results and achieve ambitious targets. You’ll be highly numerate, target-driven, commercially savvy, and passionate about working in the beauty industry.

As a National Account Executive, you will

Driving Performance

• Prepare and collate weekly sales reports, gathering and sharing key retail context, category information and individual store performance detail to identify retail opportunities.
• Display agility to react to retail trends and maximise opportunities across retailers.
• Support on all net and retail sales forecasting for defined retailers/regions, meeting all financial deadlines, flagging risks and opportunities in a timely and quantified manner.
• Monitor, manage, and optimise net sales performance - ensure proactive inventory and assortment management, with close collaboration with Customer Supply Chain.
• Lead the effective monitoring of retailers’ inventory to deliver 100% on shelf availability across all retail partners, working closely with Supply Chain and the in-region stock managers/retail team.
• Undertake adhoc reporting and analysis in response to business needs.

Cross-Functional Working

• Build strong working relationships with the Retail team, utilising their insight from the field in the development and execution of the trading plans.
• Support the sales team working closely with the Field, Operational Marketing, Visual Merchandising, PR, and Store Design, in the creation and delivery of an annual plan for each retailer covering activation of key launches and marketing moments, eventing, store/retailer animation, considering both customer acquisition and retention.

• Establish yourself as the go-to within the commercial team for all stock and allocation related queries coming from customer supply chain and other operational functions.
• Work closely with finance to align on retail and net forecasts as well as weekly net sales updates, forecast phasing and outlooks, flagging risk and opportunities.
• Work effectively with global NPD to forecast and review upcoming launches, seeking feedback and insight from relevant stakeholders for each submission.
• Work closely with Retail to effectively plan and deliver best in class NPD launches throughout the year, managing delivery of stock from warehouse to shop floor, supporting on incentive planning and tracking performance selling.

Trading Relationships

• Establish and maintain amazing relationships with all key retail partners, including with Buying/Trading, Merchandising, and Marketing to ensure that the Charlotte Tilbury brand is regarded as a collaborative and proactive trading partner.
• Work closely with retail partners to plan and facilitate the successful launch of all NPD throughout the year, submitting required operational forms in a timely manner and selling in sufficient stock to deliver against targets.

• Previous experience in a similar role within a National Accounts team/other relevant functions
• Structured and organised but comfortable working with ambiguity, in a fast-paced and ever-evolving environment (we are still a fairly new company despite what you might think!)
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• Impeccable attention to detail and level of accuracy
• Effective communicator, both written and verbal
• Proactive and action orientated as well as solution driven
• Have excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills

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.

• 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
• We’re a hybrid model with flexibility, allowing you to work how best suits you
• 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
• Bring your furry friend to work with you on our allocated dog-friendly days and spaces
• And not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!

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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