Retail Project Manager - 12 month FTC

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 are looking for an exceptional Project Manager with experience in retail or beauty distribution to join our expanding EMEA team. This is not an IT or technology project management role, it focuses on store launches, retail operations, and cross-functional business projects. You will be critical to the organisation, leading execution of new distribution expansion and projects involving cross functional teams (from commercial, marketing, finance, legal, people, supply chain and tech, to retail teams on the ground). You will help plan, monitor, and deliver a variety of projects, always keeping stakeholders informed throughout the project cycle. The EMEA Project Manager will work closely with the UK Project Manager to establish best in class ways of working and be responsible for the creation of tool kits to support process at Charlotte Tilbury for the regional and global teams.


Communication, collaboration, critical thinking, operational excellence and creativity will be at the fore front of everything you do.

As a Retail Project Manager, EMEA, you will

• Leading all stages of Retail project management, from scoping through to execution. Identifying timelines, dependencies, and management of the CPA via Monday.com.
• Lead regular project updates with cross functional teams and regularly updating stakeholders on progress.
• Creating, monitoring and continuous improvement of regional and global processes relating to new distribution expansion.
• Identifying risks and opportunities within day-to-day ways of working in the context of new distribution expansion.
• Holistic overview and management of promotions, store roll outs and ad hoc projects.

Who you will work with

• You will report directly into our wonderful Head of Project Management, EU.
• You will work cross functionally across the business, including Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Legal, People, Supply Chain and tech, to our amazing retail teams on the ground. As well as the wider EU team and UK PM team!

About you

• You have proven experience within a Project Manager role, within retail, beauty, or consumer goods project management (essential). Ideally, including experience launching new stores, in new markets. You have a natural curiosity, passion and love for the beauty industry!
• You have good, demonstrable experience using PM tools, such as Asana, Monday.com, MS Projects, Trello etc.
• Organisation: The EMEA Project Manager needs to be acutely detailed orientated, able to create a plan to achieve the vision, using appropriate tools to support themselves and the project team to deliver.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines in a timely manner, creative and solution oriented, with a keen eye for detail.
• Expert Communicator: You will need to be able to clearly articulate your ideas, as well as receive feedback from your team and stakeholders and be able to find creative solutions.
• Thinking ahead: Spotting risk before they happen, and propose solutions before they compromise deadlines, budgets, or deliverables.
• People centric: You need to LOVE PEOPLE, working with a variety of functions throughout the global business. You are empathic, able to listen and understand the concerns of all team members and support them in finding resolutions rapidly, where appropriate.
• You can create an open and collaborative environment to work in, be flexible, adaptable and have a willingness to learn.
• You are able to navigate and negotiate around obstacles, you can influence up and know how to manage difficult conversations.
• Hands on practical approach, willing to get 'stuck in' when necessary!
• Please note, you need to be flexible and able to travel across the EU region!
• Please note: This role is focused on retail and commercial projects, not IT or technology project management.

Benefits

• 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 furry 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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