CDI - CATEGORY MANAGER EME (H/F/X)

CDI - CATEGORY MANAGER EU (F/H/X)

You will excel and enjoy this position if you are ready to actively handle the following missions:

STRATEGY

• Analyze the market, monitortrends,and define priorities for Sephora to attract customers to the brand and create differentiation
• Interact with the Global Offer teams in order totake partin the international strategy and co-construct the differentiation strategy forfragrance
• Manage the brand portfolio by maximizing the sell out, while ensuring profitability and good inventory management with the right mix of brands and products.
• Be responsible for theeffective communicationof the strategy to the 21 markets,have the ability toconvince and simplify, as well as to follow up on, the good execution of the brand portfolio

OFFER AND MERCHANDISING

• Develop anchor brands and ensure their successful expression on and offline through "only at Sephora" concepts and plans.
• Develop and negotiate European differentiation plans with market leading brands
• To be a driving force behind new concepts to promote the offer and optimize all business levers (favorites, BTG, services, etc.).

MANAGEMENT / CATEGORY OPTIMIZATION

• Improvement and optimization of assortments
• Monthly monitoring of budgets for all brands in the portfolio
• Recommendation of discontinuation and follow-up of end of life
• Distribution recommendations to increase productivity and follow up on changes
• Participation in the pricing & discount strategy in coordination with the RGM
• Management of forecasts for new products at regional level

Qualifications

• The candidate has 2-3 years of experience in retail or digital marketing or marketing and knows well the world offragrance.
• Education:5 years of higher educationata business school
• International profile (fluent English required).
• Key skills: leadership, organization and rigor, proactivity, action-oriented and able to oversee several subjects at once,analyticaland comfortable with numbers, good command of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Valued qualities: passion, excellentpeople skills, team spirit, initiative, curiosity and autonomy, negotiation skills.

Benefits

• Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.
• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.
• Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

Join us and belong to something beautiful.

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