Category Manager

Job Description

Job Description: Seoulista Beauty® Category Manager
Permanent Position, Immediate Start
Location:

Victoria, London
Salary:

£40,000 + bonus

The Role

You will be responsible for directing and executing the marketing plan across a diverse range of retail channels to drive customer growth for your categories. As a key member of the marketing team, you will work closely with the cross-functional teams to deliver long-term sustainable growth across the product portfolio.

Using your consumer centric approach and analytical skills, you’ll maximise category performance, driving the most appropriate retailer distribution, ranging, pricing and promotional decisions. You’ll be responsible for conducting regular analysis to help influence category decisions and commercial strategies. You will also be responsible for reinforcing the Seoulista Beauty® brand voice that is consistent and cohesive across all platforms.

You will be a proactive self-starter and problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment and are as interested in storytelling as you are in analytics. You are knowledgeable of the beauty industry and have a passion for a lean and fast-growing founder-oriented company.

Reporting to: Head of Brand

What are we looking for?
You will need 2-3 years’ experience as a brand, category or marketing manager, ideally with a FMCG background. You will be a proactive self-starter who is both creative and analytical, and happy to work independently and as part of a team, and with a proven ability to work towards commercial targets.

The candidate must have:
Proven brand or category management experience (min 2 years) working on a consumer brand. Working across International markets is an advantage.
Excellent commercial awareness and proven ability to deliver results.
Strong analytical skills to measure activity and drive performance.
Creative thinker with a positive approach to problem resolution.
Product focused mindset, with a strong interest and passion for the beauty industry.
Good time management, attention to detail & ability to multi-task.
A self-starter, show high levels of initiative & intuition.

Responsibilities:
Drive growth within and manage the hair, sustainable cleansing and body categories.
Be the voice of your categories and proactively own and execute category marketing plans.
Support the sales function with channel plans for lead markets, UK and Ireland.
Develop customer marketing initiatives, build the relationships with different customers and programs that help improve sales and profitability.
Manage the promotional calendars alongside the commercial team and ensure all related activities are aligned for launch.
Create business cases for new opportunities and seek to review processes and make recommendations for improvements.
Support the sales function across category insights and adapting sell-in presentations as and when required.
Competitor analysis – keep track of our competitors’ performance so you can research, and action change based on emerging trends.
Attend key retailer meetings for your categories, whether new business development or key range reviews/line review meetings.

Qualification & Education Requirements:
Marketing / Business Degree
Minimum of 2-3 years’ experience
Excellent organisational and communication skills
Experience in digital marketing / marketing analytics

The Brand

Seoulista Beauty® is a globally-award winning, dermatologist-led beauty brand. Launched in 2016 by CEO and Founder Una McGurk, Seoulista Beauty® was born from a desire to bring hassle-free beauty to the routines of the busy, modern-day lifestyle. By combining the power of cryo technology with the convenience of at-home use, we have developed a niche of cult, high performance daily and weekly beauty rituals.
Unlike other beauty brands, Seoulista Beauty® focuses on self-care and wellbeing within our beauty rituals, encouraging our customers to enhance their routines with prescriptive solutions suited to their skin, and their mood.
Seoulista Beauty® retails in over 1,200 stores including prestige department stores, pharmacies, lifestyle stores, and online. The brand sells internationally in 12 markets including the USA, Europe, Hong Kong, and the Nordic region. The culture of Seoulista Beauty® is corporate yet entrepreneurial, with a small team of 12. Seoulista Beauty® has received over 50 awards since launch and as a make-up artist, influencer, and celebrity favourite, can frequently be spotted in the UK and Ireland’s top magazines, newspapers and supplements as well as on TV.

Seoulista Beauty® is the trading name of Revive Express Beauty Limited .