Global Assistant Brand Manager (City of London)

Designer Parfums is a fast-growing, dynamic global fragrance company in the perfume & cosmetics industry, with a UK base in London and international ambition, with active business in around 70 markets. We are a friendly family-owned business, and we are proud to create, develop, and distribute brands from a fantastic portfolio of heritage classics to celebrity trend-led fragrances. Our employees make our business special. With strong family values, we believe that Designer Parfums is a more prosperous and fun place to work when people feel free to be themselves. We believe in the power of being Authentic, Agile and Approachable while meeting our business goals.

A rare opportunity to play an integral part in the future of a truly iconic selective brand. You will work on exciting projects ranging from NPD to creating global campaigns to launching new pillars. The role will suit someone who has hands-on experience of operational tasks, good knowledge of what a selective brand entails, exceptional attention to detail and organisational skills, and a desire to get involved in operational and creative / brand development projects. The GABM will also require good communication and collaboration skills, as there will be interaction with other departments. Most importantly, they’ll be passionate about gaining hands-on experience of Brand Management and delivering an exceptional project/products in an iconic luxury fragrance brand.

Location: Flexible working between London and Watford, plus one day work from home per week.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support execution of innovation projects: launch of new fragrances, from fragrance selection to artwork/design and partner with cross-functional team to deliver OTIF.
• Brilliantly execute comms for product launches.
• Conduct consumer trends studies to define new concepts and future launches.
• Track marketing campaign performance, in liaison with our commercial team (Sell Out Vs in store and media investments).
• Support the Senior Brand Manager transforming strategies into brilliantly executed plans that consistently beat the competition and gain share.
• Partner with agencies to deliver breakthrough concepts, comms and assets.
• Support on operational tasks such as budget tracking.
• Must be able to adapt fluidly to an everchanging environment and prioritise jobs/tasks with conflicting, tight deadlines, coordinating marketing activities.
• Help in the preparation for key meetings: presentations, products/prototypes, fragrance lab samples, displays + coordination with third party agencies based overseas.
• Build and nurture a relationship with the licensor.
• Be passionate about the brand, the direction it is taking and want to play a crucial role in the brand development (be a brand ambassador to inspire internal and external teams).
• Bring positive energy and a ‘can do’ attitude to help identify new opportunities and find solutions quickly.

Requirements:

• Graduate level with ideally business/marketing related degree, existing Fragrance/Beauty experience is preferred, experience within selective brands.
• Eager to learn and with a ‘can do’ attitude.
• Self-motivated and organised with an obsession for detail.
• Good numeracy and analytical skills (Including ppt, excel).
• Excellent project management skills.
• The ability to build solid working relationships (both internal and external).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Energetic with a positive mind-set, willing to roll up their sleeves when needed and push the brand forward in line with the defined vision.
• Digital savvy.
• French knowledge is a plus but not a requirement.