Senior Product Portfolio Manager

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global beauty brand is seeking a Senior Product Portfolio Manager to lead product lifecycle coordination and performance analysis. The ideal candidate will support various departments, manage the NPD forecasting process, and supervise the coordination of the product portfolio. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, extensive knowledge of the beauty industry, and project management experience. This role offers the opportunity for direct impact on key business decisions in a dynamic environment, providing a flexible hybrid work model.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Inclusive parental leave policy

Wellness and social benefits

Dog-friendly days

Generous product discount

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of the Beauty Industry and trends.
• Proven track record leading teams across functions.
• Ability to multi-task under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Assist with product lifecycle coordination and analysis.
• Manage NPD forecasting process and calendar.
• Supervise coordination of the product portfolio.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Data manipulation skills

Organisational skills

Project management skills

Presentation skills

Tools

MS Office

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Looker

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

Assist the Head of with leading the Product Portfolio function in product lifecycle coordination and product performance analysis for Charlotte Tilbury Beauty. The Product Portfolio team is responsible for the supervision of Charlotte Tilbury’s entire product assortment. This function is uniquely positioned to interact regularly with a wide variety of departments beyond NPD including Marketing, Commercial, Supply Chain and Finance. This role offers the opportunity to interface with global and regional stakeholders at various levels of the organisation, including Senior Leadership, and have direct impact on key business decisions and the company’s long-term strategy.

As Senior Product Portfolio Manager you will

Product Portfolio Strategy

Support the Product Portfolio team with performance analysis to inform key business decisions, contribute to shaping the future portfolio architecture with clear and actionable insights as a data driven expert of our assortment. Lead in collaboration with Head Of sizing process and guidance across all our new product launches to help drive strategic calendar discussions and CPA planning working cross functionally with Product Marketing, NPD Managers and Finance.

NPD Forecasting

Contribute to managing the end-to-end NPD forecasting process (both retail and non-retail), responsible for maintenance of NPD Forecasting Calendar balancing deadlines, teams workload and pre-empting possible risks. Assist Head of with leading regular Forecasting Forums to present NPD to all regional teams globally, oversee forecast consolidation and presentation of global overview challenging teams where required to sign off ambition with Senior Leadership; responsible for tracking actions and follow ups across all stakeholders. Proactive management of Sampling formats forecast.

Product Portfolio Management

Supervise the coordination of the full product portfolio including maintenance of related key business documents. Provide cross functional support on other priority business initiatives and systems implementation where product lifecycle input is required. Direct management of Product Portfolio Coordinator and PD and Portfolio PDM Administrator.

Who you will work with

The role Reports into Head of Product Portfolio

You will support the Product Development Directors, Heads of Product Development and Product Portfolio Team

About you

Data driven decision maker, required advanced numerical, analytical, and data manipulation skills

Extensive knowledge of the Beauty Industry, able to evaluate trends and category benchmarks

Commercial, demand planning, strategy or marketing background preferred

Outstanding organisational skills, experience with project management/CPA management, proactive and comfortable taking ownership

Proven track record leading teams and working across multiple functions

Ability to multi-task, particularly under pressure

Accuracy and thoroughness and attention to detail

Clear and confident communicator, able to extract actionable insights and communicate effectively at all levels of the organisation, excellent presentation skills

Knowledge of MS Office systems, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint, preferred experience with data analysis tools such as Power BI and Looker

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.

Why join us?

• 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 fury 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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