- Leading the UK&I Prestige Visual Merchandising Team to manage Permanent and Temporary executions instore across all our retailers
- Own UK&I relationships and contracts with key suppliers for Prestige portfolio.
- Responsible for driving thought leadership across the UK&I business delivering best in class retail excellence strategies working with multi-functional stakeholders including the retail excellence director in our CCO team.
- Partner, influence and collaborate with senior global VM teams regarding instore designs, delivering commercial readiness and amplified content of VM guidelines.
- Engage UK&I SLT with new approaches, processes and solutions to drive a retail excellence competitive advantage for Coty UK&I.
- Clear expertise in design and delivery of complex MUP, collection or fragrance counters in flagship/ department store landscape with exemplary leadership skills to manage Fashion houses, senior global contacts and suppliers.
- Provide a 360 approach to launches considering all customer touch points within the path to purchase to build customer centric retail concepts
- Think creatively and develop new design concepts, pushing global guidelines to drive Coty UK&I to be seen as best in class by our retailers and competitors.
- Be externally focused, looking at what direct competition as well as Beauty or outside of Beauty brands are doing in-store to make the shopper experience more insightful & up-to-date.
- Drive a team mindset to ensure 100% projects are managed to deadline, within or below budget and deliver with clear communication across all stakeholders.
- Creating exceptional briefs to enable clear communication with stakeholders at all levels.
- Ensure high quality standards for all sites
- Forge stronger collaboration between temporary and permanent teams in-store to establish a comprehensive 360-degree approach aimed at ensuring brand consistency.
- Meaningfully partner with Retail Director and/or Head of Field to embed feedback and learnings to continue to enhance our executions in-store
- Responsible for the overall VM budget ensuring accurate and efficient management of the A&CP and CAPEX spend.
- Own the AOP CAPEX process and drive clear decision making on final CAPEX budget with brand, finance and SLT sponsors.
- Drive clear assessment of profitability of CAPEX investments with a clear understand on the P&L impact to retailers and brands.
- Drive thought leadership with Global on maximising our CAPEX investments and finding ways to drive scale/ cost savings to deliver a more profitable way to expand MUP / Skincare counters to market.
- Develop / Plan budgets and targets based on financial and long-term goals.
- Collaborate across teams to implement in-store strategies that enhance productivity goals for both core products and new product development (NPD), all while assisting the team in optimizing the customer journey and navigation through our fixtures.
- Drive a clear shopper mindset with fixturisation to maximise door by door productivity, through development of clear shopping principles.
- Implement clear merchandising principles that optimise NPD update process.
- Mange your direct reports within your team, including appraisals, performances reviews and personal development plans.
- Drive a clear ownership mindset, bold creative thinking complemented with commercial pragmatism within the team.
- Prioritize team development and management by offering support, coaching, and fostering an environment of open feedback.
- Build MUP, Skincare, fragrance and collections capability within the team to bring coty experience ahead of market benchmarks.
- Drive an annual review process to ensure Coty is maximising it's cost base with each supplier closely partnering with Procurement to remain competitive in this area.
- Extensive Visual Merchandising experience in Beauty category across make up, skincare and fragrance/ collections.
- Expertise across multitude of retailer types such as flagships, department stores, high street health and beauty and stand-alone retail doors.
- Extensive work and experience with global/ UK merchandising manufacturers.
- Deep knowledge of managing a large volume of CAPEX projects, new installations and managing a matrix of stakeholders.
- Clear expertise in shopper understanding of implementing retail solutions for retail partners and stand alone stores.
- Fluent in English
- Strategic thought leadership
- Strong attention to detail - creative eye / appreciations of aesthetics
- Creative and conceptualisation skills.
- Technical knowledge about materials, production techniques and tooling
- Knowledge about 3D design and technical drawings
- Project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects with a strong level of complexity and a wide range of partners.
- Adobe Creative Suit: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
- Excellence power point skills to create outstanding presentations in short notice
- Able to read and draw Technical/ Manufacturing drawings
- Commercial Excellence - numerical / analytical
- Excel and Budget Management
- Full understanding of CAPEX and amortisation of assets
prestige merchandising director - London, United Kingdom - Coty
Description
Prestige Merchandising Director
As our Prestige Merchandising Director, you are responsible for playing a pivotal role in developing and executing strategies to drive the success of our Beauty products and Brands. You will be responsible for creating best-in-class execution instore and leading the competitive landscape for our UK&I Prestige Brands specialising in Skincare, Fragrance and Make up.
You will be a strong leader, passionate about people development and confident motivating to get the best out of your team. Your excellent influencing skills are required to collaborate and influence multiple stakeholders to ensure that the instore needs are met with assets that will deliver. This role will also require seamless cross-functional collaboration to ensure merchandising alignment with brand strategy, retailer needs and promo guidelines. You must have experience in managing large CAPEX and OPEX budgets, as well as experience in working across key UK Retailers.
The successful candidate will have a positive and flexible solution-oriented approach, focused on quality and attention to detail. You are a real leader, creating a compelling vision and then communicating it with style and charisma. You've always been comfortable defending a point of view and thrive on the challenges that working with a global team environment brings.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The team is made up with specialists in Prestige in Fragrance, make up and skincare. and you will work closely together with several departments such as Sales, Brand, Finance and design. All your colleagues are highly motivated, passionate and experts in their field.
YOU ARE A COTY FIT:
As an experienced Merchandising Director, you will have an "own it, drive it" professional attitude and you get energy from working in a fast-paced, diverse, and international environment. In addition, you should have:
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
OUR BENEFITS:
As our Prestige Merchandising Director, some of the benefits you will receive are:
A salary that matches your knowledge and experience
Life and accident insurance
Medical & Physiotherapy Service
Employee assistance program
RECRUITMENT PROCESS:
A telephone/online introductory meeting.
A first online/in-person interview with the Senior Leadership team
A second interview with a case study
You will receive a proposal with the terms of employment.
ABOUT COTY:
Coty is one of the world's largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skincare, and body care. At Coty, we celebrate the entire human kaleidoscope and cultivate a culture of fearless kindness. Therefore, we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against any candidate or employee and strive to be an open, inclusive and diverse workplace where all employees can be their authentic self. Join us in making over the world of beauty
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