VM Executive - Travel Retail

About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Founded by British makeup artist and beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the face of the global beauty industry by de-coding makeup applications for everyone, everywhere, with an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range. Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty continues to break records across countries, channels, and categories and to scale at pace.

Over the last 10 years, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth and is one of the most talked about brands in the beauty industry and beyond. It has become a global sensation across 50 markets (and growing), with over 2,300 employees globally who are part of the Dream Team making the magic happen.

Today, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a truly global business, delivering market-leading growth, innovative retail and product launches fuelled by industry-leading tech — all with an internal culture of embracing challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic. The energy behind the bran­d is infectious, and as we grow, we are always looking for extraordinary talent who want to be part of this our success and help drive our limitless ambitions.

About the role

As VM Executive for Charlotte Tilbury Travel Retail, you will support on VM artwork and production for all TR EMEA regions and retailers. Working closely with the TR VM team, you will adapt and align Global guidelines to the TR instore strategy, delivering strong instore activations that amplify campaign and brand codes while supporting our commercial vision. 
 
Your role encompasses both creative artworking and project management responsibilities, ensuring all doors are supported with the correct VM delivered on time and on budget across all campaigns and new launches. You will also have the opportunity to support in delivering exciting concept animation pop-ups for priority NPD campaigns throughout the year. 
 
You will support with on-site installs when necessary, which will require occasional travel across the EMEA region. 

The strongest candidates will have beauty and/or Travel Retail experience, and be equipped to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. 
 

As a VM Executive – Travel Retail you will 

• Support VM production and End to End POS process for campaign and new door openings by creating and issuing artwork, briefing suppliers, communicating dates to the wider team and ensuring deadlines are being met internally and externally.
• Deliver VM that uplifts the brand image, ensuring sign off by the appropriate leadership teams are obtained including General Manager & Global brand partners.
• Ensure all working documents are kept up to date and prepared for the following year (production trackers, budget trackers, databases etc). Share the information with the relevant stakeholders in an appropriate time frame.
• Work closely with the TR VM Manager to ensure budget is tracked and monitored appropriately. Raise and receive in all Purchase Orders.
• Internally ensure transparency on deadlines and budget to support business expectations.
• Develop a close working relationship with external partners and suppliers to ensure synchronised ways of working.
• Work closely with the internal teams (Marketing, Commercial, Global VM, Finance, Procurement & more)

Who you will work with

Reporting to VM Manager – Travel Retail and collaborating with:

• TR VM team
• TR Store Design team
• Wider TR team
• Global VM
• Regional VM teams
• Finance

About you

• Project Management and multi-tasking
• Commercial Awareness – Numerical
• Attention to detail, creative eye and highly organised
• Design software skills (Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup)
• Comfortable with working under pressure and autonomously
• Flexible and agile in approach
• Budget Management
• Experience in Head Office VM for cosmetics or similar and/or Travel Retail

Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.

Benefits

• 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 everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves. We celebrate and support this by encouraging and hiring people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives into our growing global workforce. By doing so, we better serve our communities, customers, employees - and the candidates that take part in our recruitment process.

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