Category Manager - Store Design - 12 Month FTC Maternity Cover

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded in 2013 by world‑renowned makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury CBE, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has transformed the global beauty industry with one mission: to empower everyone, everywhere to look and feel like the most confident version of themselves. With our easy‑to‑use, easy‑to‑choose, easy‑to‑gift icons, we’ve become one of the most talked‑about beauty brands on the planet - and the magic is only growing.

Today, we’re a global beauty phenomenon, scaling at record speed across 50+ markets with over 3,000 Dream Team members bringing the Tilbury magic to life every single day. Across the world, our Retail Teams and Magic Offices work hand‑in‑hand to shape the Charlotte Tilbury experience - from the glamour of London and the style capitals of Europe, to the energy of the Americas, the vibrant beauty hubs of the Middle East and the fast‑growing innovation centres across APAC. Every region brings its own sparkle, culture and community, creating the unmistakable magic of Team Tilbury.

We’re bold. We’re disruptive. We’re powered by creativity, innovation and industry‑leading tech. And as we continue to break records across countries, channels and categories, we’re looking for extraordinary talent to join us.

About the role

We are looking for a dynamic individual, with proven experience of working in a fast-paced environment, ideally from within the luxury Cosmetic or Personal Care industry, with a large global focus on e-commerce. The Category Manager will be responsible for sourcing and cost reduction within the Indirect categories, with a specific focus on Store Design, permanent fixtures.

This global role will liaise with regional teams across the UK, EMEA, US and APAC, to deliver the Store Design category strategy plans, while supporting sourcing for global contracts. The role will manage all areas of Store Design, and travel will be required.

The ideal candidate will have a broad spectrum of Indirect Procurement experience across several categories, with specific expertise and experience within the Store Design categories, around design, and fixtures and fittings installation in offline luxury stores and concessions within retail department stores.

As a Category Manager 12 Month FTC you will

• Responsibility for development and delivery of the Store Design sourcing strategy, working with regional leads to deliver a category plan in agreement with the Global Procurement Director.
• Spend Mapping of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy, including ‘deep dive’ analysis of spend within the category across all geographic regions.
• Taking a lead role in working with stakeholders to develop a local sourcing plan and project roadmap.
• Project managing regular supplier cost initiative meetings with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as Supplier Relationship Management at a regional level.
• As part of category strategy identify risks and consolidation opportunities within supply base, including specification of ‘needs’ vs. ‘wants’.
• Analyse the current supply base with key operational stakeholders and present alternate solutions that optimise business growth and improve business efficiencies. Including phasing out poor performing suppliers a developing and onboarding new suppliers who can better support the aggressive business growth plans.
• Developing and owning, in agreement with the Head of Indirect Procurement, Cost Initiative reduction targets on a 12-month rolling annual basis.
• Forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on all assigned cost initiatives monthly, including ownership within the Cost Initiative pipeline tracker, and associated rebate tracking.
• New supplier sourcing and tendering programs with development and monitoring of full 12-month sourcing pipeline.
• Negotiation of terms and conditions for supplier contracts, managing inputs from operational stakeholders and liaising with legal team to ensure contracts signed within appropriate timescales, including contracting with legacy suppliers currently not under terms.
• Develop and implement regional procurement/sourcing processes to ensure ‘maverick’ spend minimised.
• Set-up and manage credit checking programme as part of risk management policy.
• Support the global Procurement Excellence team in rolling out key procurement/sourcing policies within the business.

Who you will work with

Procurement, Store Design etc.

About you

COMPETENCY MUST HAVES:

• Learning Curve - Capability to quickly take on board and disseminate new data/info around operational business needs and quickly develop into a sourcing plan of action.
• Attention to Detail – Able to work in a fast-paced environment, without making unchecked errors across a wide range of cost initiative projects at the same time.
• Managing Priorities - Ability to commit and deliver against deadlines agreed, where there will be multiple priorities to consider and manage.
• Project Management – Must be conversant with both sourcing tenders/RFP processes as well as VAVE project management with suppliers. Ability to manage both external and internal stakeholders to deliver a project on time, with significant associated savings.
• Commercial acumen - Must have strong negotiation skills with clear demonstrable consistent cost saving achievements both from tendering and negotiation, as well as project managing value engineering cost initiatives.
• Autonomy – Must be able to take responsibility for own resource time, prioritising highest value/ROI projects and ownership of delivery, with minimal direct support.

EXPERIENCE EXPECTATIONS:

• Thorough knowledge of the cosmetics market, supplier capabilities within SD and competitor activity at a regional level.
• Previous procurement experience within Cosmetic or Personal care business.
• Previous experience and expertise supporting both SD Indirect category is absolute must, plus ideally having one other category expertise in one of the following: Marketing, PR & Events, Tech, Influencer Agencies, Creative production, Travel.
• Must have developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews.
• Quarterly KPI development and Supplier Monitoring as part of QBR process.
• Must be conversant with and developed strong tender briefs within large value complex projects.
• Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
• Sound legal contract knowledge and experience.
• Must be comfortable working with ambiguous and/or incomplete information to achieve a significant cost benefit result.
• Demonstrated use of ‘source to contract’ e-sourcing tools a distinct advantage.

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast‑paced, dynamic and ever‑evolving environment where agility, ambition and a passion for excellence help our teams thrive. We look for people who want to grow, innovate and be part of a truly global #DreamTeam.

While we outline the experience and skills we believe set candidates up for success, they’re a guide - not a barrier. If you can demonstrate the capabilities needed for the role, we’d love to hear from you, whether you have more or less experience than listed.

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 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 everyone, everywhere, to feel like the most beautiful and confident version of themselves. We bring this to life by welcoming people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, identities, and perspectives into our global team. A workforce that reflects the world around us helps us better serve our communities, our customers, our colleagues, and every candidate who takes part in our recruitment process.

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