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’re looking for a passionate and experienced VM Assistant Manager with excellent people and project management skills who will support the VM Manager to help drive, deliver & execute the UK VM strategy across all UK Own Stores and Department Stores.
You will be responsible for delivering best-in-class retail experiences with global impact, across the UK. Your key deliverables will be VM campaigns, new store openings and promotional projects on time and to budget. We are looking for someone who can manage complexity and pace with strong budgeting and prioritisation skills. This role will work closely with external retailer partners and suppliers, as well as colleagues of all levels across different teams in the business, so collaboration and relationship building skills will be key, as well as management skills to manage one direct report.
As an Assistant VM Manager, you will:
- Strategic support for UK Own Stores and Department doors, driving our strategy to support achieving the overarching UK VM strategy and overall business objectives
- Head up campaign launches from managing global delivery of assets through to execution in store delivery, managing all aspects from business-as-usual updates to Own Store promotional activations
- Support & lead on new store openings and additional distribution. Be the retailer lead on new distribution launches ensuring successful new openings and high VM standards across the UK in collaboration with our UK Store Design team
- Managing CPAs to ensure timely launches with the VM executive as well as constantly reviewing areas of opportunity and improvement to support the distribution strategy
- Be the promotional expert for Own Store activations alongside the VM Manager, executing best-in-class promo projects of all sizes and scope with a futuristic and omni-channel approach
- VM budget guardian: bringing all projects in on time and in budget, with an always on focus on budget management and reporting, with quarterly forecasting reviews
- Building strong relations with Retail partners across multiple regions within the UK estate
- Ability to work on multiple projects at any one time, including new distribution, expansions, business as usual campaigns & promotional activations across multiple retail partners
- Ability to work on complex projects such as expansions and fixture upsizing across retailers
- Manage the UK VM Executive ensuring on time in-store NPD campaigns as well as a supportive and collaborative team environment
- Confident presenting to stakeholders of all levels
- General admin and document management, leading processes and ways of working, POs and budget tracking
Who you will work with
- Reporting into the Senior VM Manager
- One direct report, VM Executive
About you
- Confident in Adobe Creative Suite (specifically Illustrator & InDesign)
- People focused, a strong and inspiring line manager
- Experienced project manager
- Commercial mind set key, with a creative flair
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines
- Strong prioritisation capability
- Forecasting and budget management experience
- Confident managing multiple stakeholders of all levels
Charlotte Tilbury is a fast-paced and dynamic environment where nimble mindsets, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam are key. Even though we have requirements, our experience and background are just a guide, we still love to welcome applicants with more or less experience stated, provided necessary skills can be demonstrated.
Why join us?
- 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 fury 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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Skills Required
- Experience in project management
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator & InDesign)
- Strong budgeting and forecasting skills
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Experience managing a team
Charlotte Tilbury Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Charlotte Tilbury and has not been reviewed or approved by Charlotte Tilbury.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave appears notably generous in eligible regions and roles. This element is frequently highlighted as a standout part of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid holidays and substantial PTO are commonly available for many full-time roles. These allowances meaningfully contribute to overall value when scheduling permits.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Product discounts, periodic gifting, and access to wellbeing resources such as an Employee Assistance Program are emphasized. Learning access and everyday perks like fitness partnerships or office snacks further enhance perceived value.
Charlotte Tilbury Insights
What We Do
With over 27 MAGICAL years in the beauty industry, Charlotte Tilbury MBE - the world’s No1 makeup artist - launched her ICONIC beauty company in September 2013 to record-breaking results and critical acclaim. The success since has been truly phenomenal. The award-winning collection of magic makeup and skincare innovations is adored by supermodels, starlets, entrepreneurs & icons. It is one of the fastest growing beauty companies GLOBALLY, has won countless awards and has broken records across countries, channels and categories. We have SO many exciting opportunities for you to join the Dream Team in our beautiful Central London Head Office. At Charlotte Tilbury Beauty, we love what we do and strive to be the best. Dare to dream it, dare to believe it, dare to do it! Join our team of LIMITLESS THINKERS and RULE BREAKERS and help make beauty dreams come true ALL around the world! We can’t wait to hear from you!
