Visual Merchandising Executive

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

We’re looking for a Visual Merchandising Executive with excellent attention to detail and organisational skills who can relish a challenge – whether it be executing on a tight deadline or heading up a project working cross- functionally with colleagues of all levels on our amazing VM creative projects.

This role is primarily focused on the implementation of high quality VM elements into stores for campaign launches – on time and to budget. You will be working across a wide range of VM formats and elements so we’re looking for someone who can manage complexity and pace, with strong prioritisation skills!

As a Visual Merchandising Executive you will

• Be the campaign lead to drive the campaign agendas and work cross-functionally with other departments, to deliver 360 plans.
• Collaborate with the Global and local Visual Merchandising teams to fully immerse in the detail of campaigns & their VM elements.
• Plan future campaigns ahead of time, execute current campaigns and review past campaigns to ensure we are effective.
• Be present at installs and on launch days to ensure highest quality is delivered correctly and follow up any snagging efficiently.
• Support the VM Assistant Manager, global and local store design teams to immerse in the detail of new stores & their VM elements.
• Create the store launch guidelines for sign off and communicate to all teams to support set up and opening.
• Work as part of a project team to deliver exciting and record-breaking 360 projects. Be the lead for the VM team on ad hoc projects. Types of projects may include: Artworking/digital content plans/events/pop ups/ promotional activity etc.
• Partner with the commercial and marketing teams to conduct analysis to inform decisions and ensure we are optimising VM for maximum impact and productivity.
• Conduct regular store visits to support teams, mentor, and guide to ensure VM standards and met across the retail estate.
• Visit stores on key event or launch days to support teams and ensure plans are implemented correctly. You will be the VM contact for store teams.

Who you will work with

• Reporting to our wonderful Assistant Visual Merchandising Manager (UK) you will work closely with the Store Design & VM team as well as the wider UK & global functions.
• You will work closely with the retail operations and maintenance team, collaborating on VM guidelines and communication to stores, supporting VM standards.

About you

• You will have gained some Head Office experience in Visual Merchandising and ideally, you have experience within Beauty/Retail industries.
• You have experience working with VM suppliers and you are confident working with retailers.
• An excellent communicator: confident and comfortable building relationships with different stakeholders and you are able to effectively articulate your point of view. You have exceptional organisational skills and can manage multiple stakeholders with ease!
• You thrive working to pace, you are able to ruthlessly prioritise and can manage multiple deadlines at anyone time with ease.
• You love to work with others, you collaborate confidently but also can work effectively on your own.
• You have a natural curiosity and a positive mindset, with the ability to think creatively to produce new ideas and concepts that fit within the Charlotte Tilbury brand.
• You have experience across Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Office, and Outlook. You may also have some exposure working with Adobe creative suite.

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.

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 fury 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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