Senior Marketing Manager - Beauty

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Company Description

At Frasers Group we're rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we're serving our consumers with the world's best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we're elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Why join us?

Our mission - we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem.

Our purpose - we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world's best brands and experiences.

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you.
• Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results.
• Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet.

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Marketing Manager for Beauty who can elevate and drive the category across the group, with a focus on our FRASERS and FLANNELS fascias. Building out 360 in-store and online partnerships with our beauty brands, the Senior Marketing Manager will deliver market-leading campaigns, reporting into the Group Head of Marketing - Luxury & Premium, and working closely with the Beauty Commercial team.

This opportunity would suit an entrepreneurial marketeer looking to develop their marketing skills in a fast-paced, agile culture. At Frasers Group you will lead, have autonomy and make a personal difference from the day you step in the business.

Working with the Group Head of Marketing - Luxury and Premium and Head of Beauty, alongside key commercial stakeholders, this opportunity is for a fearless leader to drive the Beauty category and marketing.

You will have the scope to shape marketing campaigns, both for our fascias as well as our brand partners, devise strategies as to how brands show up across FLANNELS' and FRASERS' touchpoints using your marketing and industry expertise and with that in mind, create and implement exciting offline & online marketing plans that speak to our customers.

As a key figure within the marketing team, you will be the category guardian for Beauty and how it shows up across channels, and your work will inspire the wider marketing and commercial teams.

As part of this role, you will be a key contact for our beauty brand partners across the group (FRASERS and FLANNELS), working with them to create commercially successful marketing campaigns which meet both ours and the brand's objectives. You will lead supplier funding negotiations and measure the success of all campaigns based on pre-agreed commercial and marketing KPIs, implementing learnings for future campaigns to ensure the category is always developing.

• Delivering the Marketing strategy and objectives for the Beauty division to drive brand and commercial growth.
• Overseeing and driving the seasonal marketing calendars for FLANNELS and FRASERS, ensuring all channel teams have the assets, information, and guidelines to deliver effective campaigns across their respective channels. Initiating ideas to implement to ensure we deliver exciting and engaging moments for our Beauty customers.
• Partnering with commercial teams to act as the conduit between Marketing and Commercial. You will attend key appointments with strategic brand partners to maintain and grow relationships, understand the brand's calendars, opportunities and launches, and to ensure clear integration of campaigns into our calendars and on-point execution across channels.
• Managing all brand partner marketing relationships and supplier funding negotiations, working to an annual target. Ensuring brand buy-in and associated investment into each campaign by proactively pitching to brand partners and identifying commercial opportunities. You will prepare all necessary presentations for brand pitches.
• Partnering and working cross-functionally with key channels such as Commercial, Social, Retail, PR/Talent, Campaign & Content and E-Commerce etc to ensure alignment and seamless implementation of marketing campaigns and messaging.
• Managing the category marketing budget including funding from brand partners.
• Working closely with our Retail teams to ensure all physical touchpoints are filled at key calendar moments with compelling activations and takeovers to surprise and delight our Beauty customers.
• Using data and analytics to review, report and assess performance of all campaigns. Ensure all campaigns are delivered and reported on in a timely manner, on budget and that all key learnings are shared with key stakeholders in the business and brand partners where necessary.
• Dissecting the Beauty and competitor landscape to identify opportunities and trends in the market for Frasers Group to maximise upon.

Qualifications

• Extensive marketing experience gained within the Beauty sector.
• To be culturally aware and have a knowledge of what's going on within the macro environment. With that, you will have an unrivalled love of Beauty brand and products.
• To hold strong relationships with Beauty brands across the industry.
• Excellent online & offline marketing expertise.
• A degree is preferable but not essential. We are looking for solid experience in the industry and experience of creating and implementing strategic plans with creative flair.
• To be a natural leader with the ability to inspire and to always bring the team with you.
• Strong communication and people skills.
• Experience managing teams and budgets.
• Flexibility and enthusiasm, with the ability to work under pressure and sometimes to tight timelines, always maintaining a professional attitude.
• Have exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills, showing remarkable attention to detail whilst also being results-driven.
• Excellent English written and verbal skills.
• You must be open to travel (where required).

What's next?

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focused and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful we anticipate two further interview stages with the Hiring Manager/wider team which will be more technically focused and could include a presentation/task so we can see your skills in action.