# Sephora Partnership Lead

**Company**: Marks & Spencer
**Location**: United Kingdom
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As our Sephora Partnership Lead, you’ll be at the heart of the relationship between M&S and Sephora, bringing together commercial strategy, trading performance and cross-functional teams to grow our concession business.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a major beauty partnership and turn commercial plans into an outstanding experience for our customers.

**Key Accountabilities:**

- Lead and manage the relationship with Sephora, including senior stakeholders, through structured monthly and quarterly business reviews that track performance and identify opportunities.

- Shape, refine and execute the end-to-end partnership strategy and ongoing trading plan with Sephora, aligning internal teams and external partners to deliver sustainable commercial growth.

- Own the full concession P&L and key KPIs, including weekly trading performance, annual budgets, reforecasting and long-term strategic planning.

- Influence and align cross-functional teams across Commercial, Finance, Store Operations, Supply Chain, Online and Marketing to deliver the business plan.

- Lead the planning, prioritisation and delivery of future Sephora rollouts and refresh programmes against agreed timelines, budgets and commercial return targets.

**Requirements:**

- A strong understanding of end-to-end retail trading and operations, with knowledge of Property, Online, Marketing and Loyalty.

- Experience leading large projects or a functional area with significant cross-functional dependencies, ideally involving external partners.

- Strong stakeholder and partner engagement skills, with the ability to build credible relationships and galvanise support across indirect teams.

- Commercial acumen, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data and insight into executable plans.

- Confident decision-making, influencing and communication skills, with the ability to deliver at pace through ambiguity and complexity; Beauty brand management experience is desirable.

**Benefits:**

- 20% colleague discount on all M&S products and many third-party brands for you and someone in your household, available once you’ve completed your probation

- Competitive holiday allowance with the option to buy more

- Discretionary bonus schemes linked to your performance and ours

- Strong pension and life assurance to help plan for the future

- Tailored induction and training to support your development from day one

- Exclusive perks and savings through our M&S Choices portal

- Market-leading family policies, including parental, adoption and neonatal leave

- 24/7 wellbeing support, including virtual GP access and mental health services

- One paid volunteer day a year to support a cause that matters to you

## Skills

### Required
- retail trading
- operations
- commercial strategy
- cross-functional teams
- partnership strategy
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- communication skills
- Beauty brand management

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