Global E-retail Marketing Assistant

The Davines Group, founded in Parma in 1983, specializes in professional cosmetic products under the brands Davines for haircare and [ comfort zone ] for skincare. Led by Chairman Davide Bollati and CEO Anthony Molet, the Group is headquartered in Parma at the Davines Group Village, alongside which stand the Scientific Garden and EROC - European Regenerative Organic Center - a research center focusing on regenerative organic agriculture stemming from a partnership with the Rodale Institute. The Group became a B corp in 2016, and today has 8 subsidiaries, operates in 90 countries, and employs around 900 collaborators globally. Since 2019, both the Italian and US subsidiaries have been Benefit Corporations.

**ROLE OVERVIEW**:
We are looking for a culturally curious and sustainable beauty advocate to join our fast-growing brand and energetic results-driven team. We’re looking for someone with experience supporting managing e-retailers to join our team on a fixed-term up to 1 year contract to support in covering Maternity while also developing a comprehensive expansion strategy to grow the brand in Asia (specifically South Korea, Japan and China). You’ll work directly with some of the biggest beauty e-retailers and marketplaces in the world to ensure we’re delivering engaging content, activating paid and organic opportunities and meeting commercial targets.

This is a highly collaborative role, which involves partnering with the local markets and e-retailers and working alongside our talented global e-commerce and digital community and global marketing colleagues.

We’re looking for someone with3+ years experience in account management in the digital space, preferably within the Beauty space, Fashion or FMCG experience will also be considered. Luxury or marketplace experience would also be preferred.

The team is location-free but reports into the Global office which is based in Parma, Italy. We’re looking for someone based remotely in London where we also have the UK Davines House and Academy in Kings Cross which is a great base for working together. We’re looking for someone who is open to frequent travel, mainly to the Davines global office in Parma, Italy and Asia.

**JOB MISSION**: This role’s mission is to execute the our global e-retailer strategy while developing a strategy for a successful and sustainable launch in Asia.

DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Account Support for E-retailers
Assist the EM in executing the centralized e-retailers strategy, determining where Davines can be found online and supporting partners in ensuring the brand is represented in a consistent way in priority markets.
Assist with briefing specific e-retailer digital/social content, in collaboration with creative/comms teams and help to share e-retailer toolkit with partners or via the Digi-Davibook (product launch support, brand building content, promotional content).
Work with local market contacts and global teams on forecasting for promotion and GWPs.
Collate Quarterly reports for department.

Responsible for leading, executing and managing Davines’ direct online sales globally with e-retail partners such as Sephora, Cult Beauty and Amazon.
Responsible for managing the relationship and marketing for Davines’ indirect online sales via our global distributor partners to e-retailers.
Build relationships and develop Joint Business Plans with strategic e-retailers.
Leverage Davines’ e-retail ‘scorecard’ to determine appropriate online partners and accelerate the sales growth and ensure appropriate brand representation.
Lead the merchandising strategy and track execution with our e-retail partners to ensure consistency of product mix globally.
Ensure a globally aligned and consistent marketing message which is aligned to all of our channels.
Lead weekly status calls and monthly planning meetings with e-retailers to ensure alignment and on-time execution of key initiatives to drive towards joint sales targets.
Work with global marketing and comms teams to ensure 360 brand approach to all activations online and in store. Work closely with cross-functional teams on new retailer launches.
Build marketing activation strategies for each retailer site, develop new programs and content plans in order to deliver sales targets.
Work with Finance team to track sales and report sell-in and as much sell-out data as possible for this channel globally.
Lead development and briefing of specific e-retailer digital/social content, in collaboration with comms team and share the e-retailer toolkit with partners (product launch support, brand building content, promotional content).
Work with local market contacts and e-retailers to liaise on logistics, forecasting andstock requirements.
Analyze the global e-retailer channel monthly, reviewing performance against targets and discuss performance with markets.
Share global guidelines for onboarding new e-retailers efficiently (covering logistics through to brand guidelines).
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