Senior Account Manager (UK) - 1 year MAT Cover

Soleil Collective; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beauty brand company is seeking a Senior Account Manager for a one-year maternity cover. This role involves driving brand growth within the UK market, developing relationships with retail partners, and executing marketing strategies. The ideal candidate has at least 4 years of experience in sales management in beauty brands, excellent communication skills, and is passionate about the beauty industry. Benefits include pension plans and work-from-home options.

Benefits

Pension plans

Leave package

Work from home

Training & development

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years experience in sales and account management in the UK beauty market.
• Experience with O M N I Channel retailers preferred.
• Strong presentation and verbal communication skills required.

Responsibilities

• Develop new retail leads by pitching brands to partners.
• Manage distribution business plan implementation with the Chief Sales Officer.
• Plan and execute marketing strategies and campaign launches.

Skills

Sales and account management

Communication skills

Retail development

Adaptability

Organizational skills

Financial acumen

Job description

About Soleil Collective

Backed by Gauge Capital, Soleil Collective is building a portfolio of leading high‑growth brands specializing in sunless tan, suncare, and body care products. Soleil accelerates growth and improves profitability with sales, marketing, operations, and strategic management expertise. We have completed two acquisitions to date: Loving Tan and Coco & Eve.

Loving Tan is the category leader in prestige tanning, delivering the most natural‑looking tan. Proudly made on Australia’s famed Gold Coast, the professional quality, natural olive colour, and flawless application are beloved by A‑listers, creators, and beauty lovers alike.

Coco & Eve’s story starts in Bali, among the island’s volcanic beaches and lush rainforests. The brand allows you to glow like you just returned from a trip to paradise with our sun‑kissed, skin‑loving tan products and deliciously scented, efficacious haircare— all formulated with the best tropical Balinese ingredients.

About the Job

We are seeking an enthusiastic Senior Account Manager (One year Maternity Cover) with the passion to drive exponential brand growth in wholesale within the UK. You will constantly uncover new opportunities with our current and new retail partners. This is an extremely exciting opportunity for someone who loves sales, business development and analysis. You are a people person who can build great relationships with our partners while driving strong commercial negotiations.

This role encapsulates the development and implementation of retail strategies, marketing plans, forecasting, pricing, as well as managing retail marketing spend with a focus on the UK market for our brands. This role leads across the planning, execution, performance review and recommendations for all marketing and trading initiatives across all assigned retailers, for physical and online retailers.

You will be reporting to the Chief Sales Officer based in USA, working alongside the retail and brand teams in US, Europe and APAC.

Responsibilities

• Develop new retail leads, approaching and pitching our brands to new retail partners
• Drive, co‑develop with the Chief Sales Officer, and closely manage the implementation of the distribution business plan for our retail brands
• Present to our existing and new retail partners our current products and new product launches, driving excitement for the brands
• Secure and manage the best in class retail partners in the UK ensuring financial targets are met
• Create, plan and execute marketing plans for campaign launches, collaborate with stakeholders to put together a plan of action for successful execution and to maximise revenue and profit
• Responsible for monthly reporting, profit & loss reporting, setting of performance measurement / metric to measure the well‑being of our retail partners

Requirements

• A minimum of 4 years experience in sales and account management in the UK market for beauty brands
• Experience working with Boots as an asset
• Must have experience managing O M N I Channel retailers
• A track record of growing beauty brands selling in and selling out in the UK market with retail partners
• Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• You must be high energy with a strong sense of urgency to excite and inspire new retail partners about our brands
• Highly organised and results driven
• Ability to quickly adapt and learn
• Financial / quantitative acumen for reporting
• Enthusiasm for the beauty industry

Your profile

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• Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities effectively
• Results‑oriented with a strong focus on achieving targets
• Adaptable and resilient in a fast‑paced environment
• A strong team player with a collaborative mindset
• Demonstrates a strong sense of ownership and accountability

Benefits

• Pension plans
• Leave package
• Work from home
• Training & development