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About the Role

We are seeking a strategic, flexible, and creative individual with proven Indirect procurement experience, ideally from the Luxury Cosmetic or Personal Care industry, with a strong global e-commerce focus. This role involves a global remit for sourcing and cost reduction across IT/Tech, Marketing, PR & events, Professional Services, and Store Design/Visual Merchandising categories, requiring demonstrated delivery of significant savings.

Responsibilities

Responsibility for development and delivery of key Indirect category sourcing strategy and plans.
Identify risks and consolidation opportunities within the supply base.
Challenge specification 'needs' vs. 'wants'.
Spend Mapping of all associated spend data to support sourcing strategy.
Forecasting, monitoring, and reporting on all assigned cost initiatives monthly.
Ownership for full justification business cases for team expansion.
Provide critical challenge to the current supply base with key operational stakeholders.
Present alternate solutions that optimize business growth and improve business efficiencies.
Develop and own aggressive Cost Initiative reduction targets on a 12-month rolling annual basis.
Set budget cost targets.
Manage new supplier sourcing and tendering programs.
Develop and monitor a 24-month sourcing pipeline.
Ownership for Indirect team development, including identification of gaps and needs, upskilling, and Personal Development Plans (PDPs).
Ensure contracts are in place for all spend above £100k.
Ensure compliance with the use of Globality tendering solution.
Establish and manage QBR process across identified key category suppliers.
Implement and monitor KPI/SLA for key suppliers.
Build SLAs into legacy supplier agreements.
Own Indirect procurement finance tracker, including team annual budgets.
Ensure all Opex/Capex required for the team is captured and monitored.
Identify and implement Indirect Category synergies.
Develop and implement procurement processes to minimize 'maverick' spend.
Consolidate multiple similar vendor set-ups.
Own risk management policy and supplier monitoring.
Own Supplier Categorisation hierarchies and taxonomy.

Requirements

Must be able to demonstrate building and leadership of strategic Indirect procurement/sourcing team.
Must be able to think ‘outside the box’, constantly bringing new ideas and process evolutions.
Capability to quickly take on board and disseminate new data/info around operational business needs.
Able to work at an extremely fast pace, without making unchecked errors across a wide range of cost initiative projects.
Ability to commit to and deliver against deadlines where multiple priorities need management.
Must be conversant with both sourcing tenders/RFP processes as well as VAVE project management.
Strong management of both external and internal stakeholders to deliver projects on time with significant savings.
Must have strong negotiation skills with clear demonstrable consistent cost saving achievements.
Must be able to take responsibility for own resource time, prioritizing ‘biggest bang for your buck’ and ownership of delivery with minimal direct support.
Thorough knowledge of supply markets, supplier capabilities and competitor activity.
Thorough subject matter expertise in at least two of the Indirect categories mentioned.
Previous procurement experience within Luxury Cosmetic or Personal care business.
Previous experience supporting e-comms tech and performance marketing solutions.
Some experience within third party logistics fulfilment and B2C couriers.
Must be able to demonstrate having developed and implemented Indirect category strategy reviews and plans.
Strong data analysis capability to support category strategy development.
Sound legal contract knowledge and experience.
Confident in ownership of legal compliance for contracts less than £100k.
Must be comfortable working with ambiguous and/or incomplete information to achieve significant cost benefit results.
Demonstrated use and implementation of ‘source to contract’ e-sourcing tools is a distinct advantage.
Must have experience and worked within a ‘Source to Contract’ system previously.

Skills

Indirect procurement
Sourcing
Cost reduction
IT/Tech procurement
Marketing procurement
PR & events procurement
Professional Services procurement
Store Design/Visual Merchandising procurement
Negotiation
Project management
Data analysis
Legal contract knowledge
E-sourcing tools
Source to Contract systems
Vector databases
Retrieval strategies
Recommender systems
Ranking models
LLM evaluation tools
Cloud networking
Platform infrastructure

Location

Global

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

CIPS accreditation (preferred)

Benefits

25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
Additional day off 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
Product gifting

About the Company

Founded in 2013 by Charlotte Tilbury CBE, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty aims to empower everyone to look and feel their most confident.
The company has transformed the global beauty industry with easy-to-use, easy-to-gift beauty icons.
It is a global beauty phenomenon scaling in over 50 markets with over 3,000 employees.
The company operates globally across London, Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, and APAC.
Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is described as bold, disruptive, and powered by creativity, innovation, and industry-leading tech.
The company is breaking records across countries, channels, and categories.

Equal Opportunity

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty welcomes people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, identities, and perspectives into its global team.
A workforce that reflects the world around us helps the company better serve its communities, customers, colleagues, and candidates.
If support is needed or to apply through an alternative method, contact recruitment@charlottetilbury.com.