About the Role
Product Marketing holds responsibility to be the core of business at CHANEL Japan Fragrance & Beauty Products Division, driving both brand equity and sustainable business growth. This requires a deep understanding of the skincare business in Japan, strong brand-building capabilities, and the ability to drive engagement and sales. Collaboration with internal stakeholders, leading local marketing mix strategy, and providing insights to the global marketing team are also essential.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead mid-term strategy to enhance brand image and sales
- Analyze the competitive landscape to identify growth opportunities and gaps
- Lead new product launch planning and demand forecasting, and supervise execution
- Manage product lifecycle, assortment and pricing
- Oversee VMD, SPM, merchandising guideline and visual asset
- Ensure brand image, tone and positioning are consistently represented at every touch point
- Support execute plan in partnership with Event, CRM, PR, Digital, Education, and Retail teams to ensure unity and execution quality
- Manage/validate promotion expense and optimize return on investment
- Elevate services and collaborate with key stakeholders
- Creating and implementing presentations internally and to HQ
- Manage and guide skincare marketing planner to align and engage in brand vision
Requirements
- Experience in beauty product marketing for 5+ years
- Prior experience in leading a team
- Experience in product development or R&I is a bonus
- Leadership that convinces many people and leads them toward a goal
- Strong sense of responsibility and judgment
- Ability to think analytically and holistically, fast-learning and flexible to deal with ambiguity
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong project management capabilities
- Skilled in presentation and negotiation in both Japanese and English
- Familiarity with digital marketing is preferred
Skills
- Product Marketing
- Brand Building
- Sales
- Marketing Mix Strategy
- Market Analysis
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Demand Forecasting
- Merchandising
- Visual Merchandising
- Digital Marketing
- Project Management
- Presentation
- Negotiation
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Skincare is the biggest and important category in Fragrance and Beauty markets in Japan, where domestic brands have successively built the trust and now are becoming more competitive with new product technologies constantly updated.
- At Chanel, Skincare products embraced a holistic vision of beauty by Gabrielle Chanel since 1927. Our mission is to elevate the luxury frontier of Skincare market, redefining excellence and sophistication to honor the profound impact of beauty in all the forms, and to build long-term relationship with customers over short-time growth.
