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Beauty Category Manager

2 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom THG Full time

About THG Beauty

We're a fast-moving, global technology group that specialises in taking beauty brands direct to consumers. Our diversified portfolio of leading brands and sites includes Myprotein, ESPA, LOOKFANTASTIC, and Cult Beauty, all of which are powered by our fully integrated digital commerce ecosystem, THG Ingenuity.

At THG Beauty, we handle everything in-house, from technology and content creation to e-commerce, marketing, manufacturing, new product development, and logistics. This comprehensive approach ensures we can fully realise our vision and maintain our leadership in the rapidly evolving global beauty industry.

Life at THG Beauty

As a key player in the beauty industry, we're home to market-leading websites such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Skinstore, Dermstore, and Cult Beauty, as well as the luxury beauty subscription box brand Glossybox. Our portfolio of premium brands includes ESPA, Ameliorate, and Grow Gorgeous, all of which are loved and trusted by millions of fans worldwide. We partner with over 19,000 influencers to ensure our brands can reach their target audience globally.

Our Mission

At LOOKFANTASTIC, our mission is to empower people globally to look and feel fantastic every day. To achieve this, we have offices across the UK, Europe, America, and Australia, staffed by passionate beauty enthusiasts who are committed to delivering rapid growth in this exciting industry. We work with over 800 of the world's greatest beauty brands, including MAC, Kerastase, GHD, Tom Ford, and YSL, to bring our customers the widest offering of beauty products from around the globe.

Why be a Buying and Sourcing Assistant at THG Beauty?

You will join a multi-brand, dynamic team of true beauty enthusiasts, with the opportunity to work cross-functionally with the wider category-led Buying team. You will also have the opportunity to work with market-leading brands and internal teams across the LOOKFANTASTIC business to drive continued sales and profit growth. By driving strong joint business plans with each of our brand partners, you will have the opportunity to grow and develop your category with ample opportunity for progression and development.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Junior Buyer / Buyer to build, manage and deliver brand budgets and build best in market joint business plans to achieve business benefits including market-leading promotions, first-to-market launches, exclusives, and investment into promotional and marketing support to maximise performance.
  • Communicate key joint business plan activations by brand to site managers and marketing teams to ensure the successful execution and coordinate joint business plan activations, including the set up and ordering of NPD and gift with purchases, setting live and taking down brand promotions, providing clear guidance to trading teams around the time, strength, and included SKUs of any promotions, and actively providing teams with marketing assets to promote brands across site.
  • Work in close alignment with the LOOKFANTASTIC and boutique site managers to ensure brands are well represented on site.
  • Be responsible for continuous monitoring and review of category performance to analyse sales patterns, taking into consideration competitor activations in the market. Advise relevant teams and ensure appropriate action is taken to unforeseen sales reactions.
  • Attend brand meetings alongside Junior Buyer / Buyer to offer support in meeting notes and feedback.

Requirements:

  • Financial and analytical ability – ability to budget and review performance.
  • Excellent communicator – able to give clarity and set direction.
  • Commercial awareness of the beauty industry.
  • Strong knowledge of your brand partners.
  • Ability to form good working relationships with internal teams and external clients.
  • Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
  • Project management skills.
  • Negotiation skills.

What's in it for you?

Career Development

  • Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team.
  • Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider.

Enhanced Leave

  • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
  • Don't want to work on your birthday? We don't either. Enjoy your day off on us.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.
  • Up to 10 days compassionate leave.
  • Buy back up to 3 days each year.
  • Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months.

Wellbeing Support

  • Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP.
  • Access our in-house CBT therapist.
  • Access our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.
  • State-of-the-art on-site gym.
  • Access to our on-site physio.

Other Perks

  • Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.
  • Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands.
  • On-site staff shop.
  • Access to on-site barber.
  • Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation.
  • Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.

THG is proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you are invited to interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to the recruitment process that will enable you to perform to the best of your ability.

THG is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and hence welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

Because of the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it sometimes takes us time to review and consider them all. We endeavour to respond to every application we receive within 14 days. If you haven't heard from us within that time frame or should you have any specific questions about this or other applications for positions at THG please contact one of our Talent team to discuss further.