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About the Role
We are looking for a Forecasting Manager - Strategic Projects to join our Revenue Growth Management (RGM) team. This role offers the chance to make a real impact by being the driving force behind sales and margin forecasting for strategic projects, delivering accurate, insight-led predictions to guide trading, financial planning, and operational decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Manage commercial forecasting and analysis across strategic business projects.
- Build sales forecasts by brand by channel, partnering with Retail, Finance and Category teams to align assumptions on traffic, conversion and basket size.
- Build daily, monthly and full-year forecasts, ensuring alignment with trading plans and key business initiatives.
- Translate sales forecasts into operational order forecasts, enabling Supply Chain to plan labor and capacity effectively.
- Present forecasts to senior leadership, outlining sales and margin expectations, key risks, opportunities and required decisions.
- Conduct ad hoc analysis to identify commercial insights and support strategic decision-making.
- Collaborate on margin forecasts by channel, providing guidance on promotional strategy, loyalty offers, redemptions and code usage to ensure targets are achieved.
- Partner with BI to drive a holistic view of campaign performance and optimise trading activity across channels.
- Collaborate with Finance on budgets, strategic planning and in-year forecasting cycles.
- Analyse retail productivity performance and share actionable insights with Category teams.
- Support wider forecasting, reporting and analytical projects as required.
Requirements
- Proven experience in forecasting, merchandising, planning, or a similar commercial analytics role, ideally within an omni-channel retail environment.
- Strong commercial acumen with a deep understanding of trading performance and key business KPIs.
- Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex datasets and translate findings into meaningful actions.
- Experience using forecasting, planning and reporting tools to support commercial decision-making.
- Excellent project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing decisions at all levels of the business.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to clearly articulate insights and recommendations.
- A track record of partnering effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver shared business objectives.
- Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the start of employment and will be asked to provide relevant evidence.
Skills
- Forecasting
- Merchandising
- Planning
- Commercial analytics
- Omni-channel retail
- Commercial acumen
- Trading performance
- Business KPIs
- Analytical skills
- Data interpretation
- Forecasting tools
- Planning tools
- Reporting tools
- Project management
- Organisational skills
- Stakeholder management
- Communication skills
- Presentation skills
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Omnichannel
Experience Level
- Proven experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive pay that grows with you, including annual salary reviews.
Benefits
- Private Healthcare
- Life Assurance
- Private Pension from day one
- Competitive pay
- Annual salary reviews
- Generous employee discount across the world’s best beauty brands
- A paid day off on your birthday
- Access to a wellbeing and perks platform
- LVMH Heart Fund support
- Generous holiday allowance
- Option to buy more holiday
About the Company
- At SEPHORA UK, beauty isn’t just what we sell - it’s who we are. It’s the freedom to express yourself, the thrill of discovering something new, and the power of belonging to a community that celebrates every identity. From our beginnings in France to becoming part of the LVMH family, we’ve always pushed boundaries through creativity, innovation, and inclusivity.
- Today, as we continue our exciting expansion across the UK, we’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to help shape the future of prestige beauty in one of the world’s most dynamic retail markets.
Equal Opportunity
- SEPHORA is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.