# Senior Category Manager - EU

**Company**: Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
**Location**: London, England
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full-time
**Category**: Marketing
**Industry**: Beauty

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## Description

We are looking for a Senior Category Manager to join our EU team! In this role, you will lead the development and delivery of European product marketing plans across Colour, Complexion, Skincare, and Fragrance.

Responsibilities:

- Develop integrated EU product marketing plans with the Head of Marketing EU, aligned with Retail and Gross sales, market share, and commercial priorities.

- Lead Category Managers in developing category visions, growth plans, and portfolio architecture, balancing global and regional hero products with new product development (NPD).

- Consolidate category recommendations and align strategic priorities with the Head of Marketing EU, supporting wider alignment with global partners and the senior leadership team.

- Lead cross-category NPD and promotional prioritisation with commercial and global teams; evaluate category business cases for new products and sets addressing European opportunities.

- Coordinate cross-category launch and promotional planning, resolving competing priorities and ensuring category plans support a coherent regional product offer.

- Oversee portfolio and lifecycle performance across NPD and core; challenge demand and supply assumptions with Category Managers and Supply Chain to optimise availability and productivity.

- Develop differentiated channel portfolio priorities across Specialty, Department Stores, and Online/Pure Players, ensuring regional consistency while addressing local sub-category opportunities.

- Consolidate pricing, positioning, and lifecycle recommendations, reviewing pricing ladders, competitiveness, value perception, and margin implications with the Head of Marketing EU.

- Use market, competitor, and portfolio analysis to identify and size growth opportunities; partner with Global NPD teams on relevant regional product needs.

- Review cross-category performance using shared analytical reporting; agree corrective actions with Category Managers and escalate material risks or trade-offs to the Head of Marketing EU.

- Partner with Go-To-Market, VM, Sales, REOPS, and Communications to align product priorities, launch readiness, and execution across European markets.

- Lead, coach, and develop both Category Managers; align priorities for the shared Category Analyst and resolve competing requests across the team.

Requirements:

- Demonstrable marketing experience, preferably in beauty, with proven category or portfolio ownership.

- Strong strategic, commercial thinking; ability to translate global strategy into regional plans and manage cross-market complexity.

- Strategic thinking and strong cross-category prioritisation, with strong analytical capability and commercial acumen.

- Strong people leadership, empowerment, coaching, and development of high-performing teams.

- Experienced managing multiple stakeholders, influencing cross-functional and senior stakeholders with ease, and articulating your point of view effectively.

- Strong collaborator, agile thinker, results-driven, and striving for success.

- Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines in a timely manner, and ruthlessly prioritise.

- Strong communicator, translating insight into action.

- Knowledge of European markets is favourable.

Benefits:

- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday

- Inclusive parental leave policy

- Financial security and planning with pension and life assurance

- Wellness and social benefits including Medicash, Employee Assist Programs, and regular social connects

- Dog-friendly workspace

- Generous product discount and gifting

## Skills

### Required
- strategic thinking
- commercial thinking
- analytical capability
- cross-category prioritisation
- people leadership
- stakeholder management
- communication

### Nice to have
- beauty industry knowledge
- European markets knowledge

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