Fragrance Brand Manager - Fashion Brands in London

Welcome to Kering Beauté. Established in 2023, Kering Beauté aims to create value for the Group and its Houses. In 2023, Kering directly invested in its very own Beauty division, with the creation of Kering Beauté. Bolstered by its industry-leading team, the ERP entity seeks to support the Group's Houses to develop their Beauty businesses to become growth drivers. The new entity's teams place innovation and creativity at the heart of their business model to fashion tomorrow's Beauty – at once sustainable and responsible.

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About the role: We are looking to appoint an experienced Fragrance Brand Manager – Fashion Brands. This role is to develop the brand image and drive profitability of a portfolio of luxury fragrance brands within the emerging niche category for Kering Beauté UK and Ireland. Working together with Global brand owners and the UK sales and marketing teams to develop and implement a strategic plan encompassing opportunities to grow the brands, build brand image to identified consumer groups and ultimately driving strategic customer acquisition and retention.

For each brand working with the Head of Marketing to develop the marketing plan, budget and implement the relevant marketing activities, owning the brand's annual marketing, driving sales and ensuring the execution of the plan with a high level of attention to detail, whilst ensuring strict control to remain within budget.

Scope: Responsible for all aspects of management for the following Niche and Emerging brands currently allocated to this role: Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga.

Success will be measured on the achievement of annual wholesale and retail sales for each brand, with key metrics for NPD rankings, A&P budget management, profitability and specific programmes relating to the successful implementation of strategic brand marketing plans.

• Strategy and Planning: Work with the Head of Marketing to plan and implement current and future marketing plans within agreed budgets, wholesale and retail targets. Develop ideas to drive customer recruitment and retention, working with the National Account Managers to ensure the brands maximise potential in all key Store Groups. Contribute to bi-annual strategy meetings, developing objectives in conjunction with the overall team and creating powerful presentations. Make recommendations and track national and key account exclusive brand launches, ensuring that the brand marketing activity calendars are always updated.
• Visual Merchandising: Ensure strong brand presence in retail accounts, maximise brand experience, drive key strategic sampling and promotional activation opportunities. Be the guardian of brand visual presentation in store, liaising with Global brand management to ensure brand guidelines and visual standards are being implemented in store. Specifically manage negotiation and execution of promotional site opportunities with the key store groups according to the overall sales and marketing strategy.
• Communication B2B: Proactively and clearly communicate all marketing plans and key brand publicity with key stakeholders including retail operations, sales team, PR, marketing teams, training, warehousing, customer care, management, ultimately creating a quarterly retail marketing communication programme in collaboration with the Senior Brand Manager. Present marketing programme and provide the Sales and Education Managers and Retail employees with all appropriate marketing support tools. Ensure regular store visits to develop competitor intelligence, and keep abreast of market developments. Build relationships with Global Brand owners and report activity, plans and ROIs on activity on a monthly and ad-hoc basis. Work closely with the National Education Manager to identify opportunities and ensure all new launch packs are up to date. From time to time assisting with the organisation of Education events.
• Communication B2C: Support the Communications Manager to maximise opportunities for brand exposure in key titles and with KOLs. Plan and manage any above the line media and digital advertising opportunities negotiating contributions where possible. Complete commercial ROI trackers for all promotional activity. Work closely with the Sales Operations team to ensure brand forecasts accurately reflect any planned promotional activity and that all activity is communicated well in advance for optimum supply.
• Administration: Manage all brand assets and ensure these are shared in a timely manner to 3rd parties; Retail Marketing and Digital team as well as internal Marketing, Education, Operations and VM teams. Respond to and follow up on all enquiries from brand teams, sales team, training team, PR and accounts team.

Knowledge and Skills: Core understanding and experience of the relationship between Sales and Marketing within a retail, brand or trade marketing role. Must have sound knowledge of high-end UK department store trade, ideally within the beauty arena. Strong interpersonal skills with proven reputation of establishing and maintaining professional business relations including retailer relationships. Strong commercial acumen with experience on determining return on investment for promotional activity, budgets, stock management, pricing and distribution. Proficiency in MS Office programmes: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook. Educated to degree level preferably in Marketing or Business. Ability to speak French would be advantageous.

Key Competencies: Proactive, assertive and autonomous with an enthusiastic, positive outlook, e.g. willingness to accept new responsibilities in a growing market. Strong verbal and written communicator with great presentation skills. Good balance between analytical thinking and creative flair. Excellent attention to detail. Highly organised team player, flexible and able to handle multiple activities, establish priorities, meet deadlines and work efficiently and effectively. Ability to build relationships to support team members and collaborate with others to achieve goals. Ability to empathise with customers and have a high standard of etiquette befitting a luxury business. Dynamic, confident and assertive with the ability to work with people at all levels.

This role reports directly to the Head of Marketing. This role is London Office based (EC1) at least three days per week with flexibility to work from home – one to two days per week. Role includes travel across the UK and Ireland.