Beauty Industry Buyer Assistant

3 weeks ago

Manchester, United Kingdom THG Full time

About THG Beauty

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

We handle everything in-house, including technology, content creation, e-commerce, marketing, manufacturing, new product development, and logistics. This comprehensive approach ensures we can fully realise our vision and maintain our leadership in a rapidly evolving global industry.

Life at THG Beauty

We're home to market-leading websites like Lookfantastic, Skinstore, Dermstore, Cult Beauty and the beauty subscription box brand Glossybox. And our portfolio of premium brands includes the likes of ESPA, Ameliorate and Grow Gorgeous – all of which are loved and trusted by millions of fans worldwide. We also partner with a network of more than 19,000 influencers to ensure brands can reach their audience anywhere in the world. It's an incredibly exciting time to be joining the team.

LookFantastic

Lookfantastic is Europe's No1 Online Destination for Premium Beauty. Our mission is to empower people globally to look and feel fantastic every day. To enable us to do this we have offices across the UK, Europe, America and Australia filled with passionate beauty fanatics who are committed to delivering rapid growth in this exciting industry. We work with over 800 of the world's greatest beauty brands such as MAC, Kerastase, GHD, Tom Ford and YSL to bring our customers the widest offering of beauty products from around the globe. Passion, innovation and commitment are key characteristics in this ever expanding team as we strive to become the Worlds No1 Online.

Job Responsibilities

You will be working closely with the Buying team to build, manage and deliver brand budgets and joint business plans to achieve business benefits. This includes market leading promotions, first to market launches, exclusives and investment into promotional & marketing support to maximise performance.

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 & 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. Advises relevant teams and ensures appropriate action is taken to unforeseen sales reactions.
  • Attends 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

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