About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious, passionate, and driven EU Media Manager to join the Europe Marketing team on a fixed-term contract. In this role, you will be fully accountable for the end‑to‑end media strategy across Total EU. You will shape, own and evolve the regional media strategy across priority EU markets, driving an optimal media mix and testing innovative new formats in close collaboration with the media agency. This is a people leadership role, with 2 direct reports, requiring proven management experience and the ability to inspire, coach and develop high‑performing talent.
Responsibilities
- Own the development and implementation of the full‑funnel media strategy across Total EU, in collaboration with the marketing team, digital teams and media agency.
- Act as the media lead for key focus markets (France, Spain, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Ireland), ensuring market‑specific nuances are reflected while maintaining regional consistency.
- Lead, manage and develop 2 direct reports, setting clear objectives, coaching performance and fostering a collaborative, high‑engagement team culture.
- Demonstrate an exceptional understanding of the EU media landscape, identifying the best channel mix to reach target customers both online and offline, delivering on brand funnel, retail sales KPIs and maximum ROI.
- Bring thought leadership and an entrepreneurial spirit, testing innovative new formats and shaping the future of Charlotte Tilbury’s EU media plans.
- Strive for efficiency and effectiveness by reviewing media performance during and post campaigns, using insights to inform future optimisation.
- Closely collaborate with the digital team to deliver a fully integrated, omni‑channel media approach, with a strong focus on DTC.
- Partner with PR to integrate paid and earned media and develop both micro and macro media partnerships.
- Own accurate EU media budget forecasting and manage actualisation in line with regional sales targets.
- Build exceptional relationships with category marketing, digital, PR, creative and the external media agency.
Requirements
- Extensive experience owning online and offline media buying (in‑house or agency), ideally within beauty, fashion, luxury or retail.
- Strong leadership experience, including leading and developing high performing teams.
- Exceptional understanding of the EU media landscape across multiple markets.
- Experienced in devising and implementing strategic plans with creative flair.
- Highly analytical, results‑driven and commercially minded with a consumer‑centric mindset.
- Ability to adapt to changing customer behaviours.
- Strong collaborator with cross-functional experience.
- Ability to pivot with ease and bring a positive attitude.
- Excellent communicator, comfortable presenting, able to influence and effectively articulate your point of view.
- Ability to work well under pressure, ruthlessly prioritise and influence upwards.
- Ability to work in an agile environment with ease.
- Flexible and professional attitude, hungry to learn and welcome challenge.
- Exceptional organisational and prioritising skills, with great attention to detail and results-driven.
- Nimble mindset, striving to deliver the best and wanting to be part of a global #dreaamteam.
Skills
- Media strategy
- Media mix optimization
- Team leadership
- Coaching
- Talent development
- Stakeholder management
- Campaign activation
- Media planning
- Creative development
- Performance reporting
- Full-funnel media strategy
- Channel mix identification
- Online media
- Offline media
- Thought leadership
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Performance review
- Media optimisation
- Integrated media
- Omni-channel media
- DTC focus
- Paid media
- Earned media
- Media partnerships
- Budget forecasting
- Budget management
- Relationship building
- TV
- VOD
- OOH
- Paid digital
- Analytical skills
- Results-driven
- Commercial acumen
- Consumer-centricity
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Agile working
- Communication
- Presentation skills
- Influencing skills
- Organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills
- Attention to detail
Location
- EU
Work Type
- Fixed-term contract
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Extensive experience owning online and offline media buying
- Proven management experience
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Additional day to celebrate your birthday
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Medicash
- Employee Assist Programs
- Regular social connects with colleagues
- Dog friendly days and spaces
- Generous product discount and gifting
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
