About the Role
The Senior Trade Marketing Manager will lead the UK & ANZ trade marketing strategy across physical retail, retailer.com, and owned stores. This role translates brand, category, and commercial priorities into integrated marketing plans to enhance customer experience, accelerate sell-out, and drive profitable growth. The manager will act as a regional brand guardian, setting retail excellence standards, building partnerships, and managing the Trade Marketing team.
Responsibilities
- Lead the annual UK & ANZ Trade marketing strategy and integrated channel plan, aligning retailer, brand, category, and commercial priorities across store and digital touchpoints.
- Develop 360 marketing strategies with retail partners, integrating digital, in-store, out-of-home, and pop-up activations.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Trade Marketing team, setting priorities and ensuring deadlines are met.
- Lead the ongoing development of the Trade Marketing function, ensuring appropriate processes, capabilities, tools, and operating rhythms are in place.
- Translate Brand and Category strategies into customer-led plans for NPD launches and core franchise acceleration.
- Partner with Commercial to shape Joint Business Plans and retailer strategies, negotiating always-on and campaign support.
- Build senior relationships and ensure clear communication of Trade marketing strategies.
- Develop strategic partnerships with key retailers, influencing joint business plans and unlocking opportunities.
- Lead retailer marketing strategy sessions, using insights to align priorities and agree on actions.
- Set the approach for retailer channels, onsite search, content, and conversion, ensuring activities are insight-led and measurable.
- Own performance reporting across the Trade marketing portfolio, defining success measures and translating results into future plans.
- Identify emerging Trade, consumer, and competitor trends and develop innovative activations.
- Own the UK & ANZ Trade marketing budget, including planning, phasing, forecasting, and actualisation.
- Create a collaborative, accountable, and inclusive team environment with regular feedback and coaching.
- Champion a connected omnichannel customer journey by partnering with cross-functional teams.
- Represent the UK & ANZ markets in regional and global forums, adapting global direction for local retail needs.
Requirements
- Extensive trade, channel, or retail marketing experience gained within beauty, premium retail, luxury, or a fast-paced consumer brand.
- Strong record of developing and delivering strategic omnichannel plans across physical retail and ecommerce.
- Proven people leadership, including coaching, performance management, and capability development.
- Excellent retailer relationship management, Joint Business Planning, and negotiation skills.
- Strong digital commerce and retail media capability, with a clear understanding of drivers for traffic, conversion, and sell-out.
- Commercially astute, with experience managing significant budgets and using ROI, P&L, and performance data for investment decisions.
- Highly analytical and able to translate customer, campaign, and sales insight into clear actions.
- Credible and persuasive communicator who can influence senior stakeholders and represent the brand externally.
- Strategic and creative thinker with high standards of execution, attention to detail, and ability to prioritise in a fast-moving environment.
- Proactive, solutions-focused, and comfortable leading through ambiguity and change.
- Excellent written and verbal English.
Skills
- Trade Marketing
- Channel Marketing
- Retail Marketing
- Omnichannel Strategy
- Digital Commerce
- Retail Media
- People Leadership
- Coaching
- Performance Management
- Relationship Management
- Joint Business Planning
- Negotiation
- Budget Management
- Analytical Skills
- Communication
- Strategic Thinking
- Creative Thinking
- Execution
- Attention to Detail
- Prioritisation
Location
- London Head Office
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Additional day off for birthday
- Inclusive parental leave policy
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Medicash
- Employee Assist Programs
- Dog friendly days and spaces
- Generous product discount and gifting
About the Company
- Founded by Charlotte Tilbury MBE in 2013, Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has revolutionised the global beauty industry.
- The company offers an easy-to-use, easy-to-choose, easy-to-gift range of makeup.
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty has experienced exceptional growth, becoming a global sensation across 50 markets.
- The company has over 2,300 employees globally.
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty is a global business delivering market-leading growth and innovative launches fuelled by industry-leading tech.
- The company culture embraces challenges, disruptive thinking, winning together, and sharing the magic.
- The company's mission is to empower everybody in the world to be the most beautiful version of themselves.
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty encourages and hires people with diverse backgrounds, cultures, voices, beliefs, and perspectives.
Equal Opportunity
- Charlotte Tilbury Beauty celebrates and supports diversity 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.
