Assistant Manager, Brand Partner Marketing

**Sephora**, a division of LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton global luxury leader, is a global leader in beauty retailing. It successfully operates more than three thousand points of sale across Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia. Its aim is to animate the most loved beauty community in the world.

**Sephora Southeast Asia Oceania** is a high growth division of leading global beauty retailer, Sephora. Our teams run omni-channel retail businesses in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand, franchise operations in India & Indonesia and we run ecommerce only businesses (the first in the world globally for Sephora) in Philippines. Our success is built on innovation, a unique product portfolio, market leading digital capability, and our exceptional peo-ple With ambitious growth plans we are always looking for talented people who are passionate about building businesses and developing themselves and our customers’ experience.

**The opportunity**:
Our Marketing organization aims to** inspire and connect people through meaningful storytelling, always pushing the norms and boundaries, one person, one community at a time**.

We are a strategic team of big thinkers and creatives who truly work interdependently to stimulate demand and driving traffic to our network. From developing marketing strategies, designing toolkits, connecting local consumer insights to our expertise & selection, planning our loyalty program, writing copy to building exciting in-store experiences, we are constantly finding ways remind beauty lovers why Sephora is extra-ordinary and cement our place as an authentic beauty expert.

**Your Role at Sephora**

As **Assistant Manager, Brand Partner Marketing**, you will be responsible **for establishing marketing plans for all of Sephora brand partners across your assigned categories, that drive sales and keep Sephora competitive and beloved by clients, including new brands marketing strategy**. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Brand Partner Marketing, you will partner with brands to optimize programs using Sephora’s marketing levers. In addition, you will serve as:

- Brand Marketing Advisor
- Drive and deliver brand partner marketing strategies that unlock more business value to both brands and Sephora, across the Makeup & Fragrances categories.
- Develop a keen understanding of the brands’ businesses, priorities, and products, working alongside the Merchandising department.
- Advise the respective brands **on how to win at Sephora** from an omni-channel marketing standpoint, including sampling strategy, social media strategy, co-op advertising, and con-sumer messaging to achieve mutually beneficial business objectives.
- Drives and owns the relationship with brand partners.
- Collaborative and Marketing Programs
- Develop strong partnerships, securing brand participation in relevant Sephora marketing programs.
- Analyse and report on Sephora and brand ROI for collaborative marketing programs and sampling investments. Utilize data to make recommendations to deliver win-wins for both the brands and Sephora.
- Identify opportunities for new co-op marketing programs and partnerships. Build the business case to develop new ideas and innovations.
- Cross-Functional Stakeholder Influence
- Build reciprocal partnerships cross-functionally in a highly matrixed organization: merchandising/brands, e-commerce, growth marketing, retail operations, training, and education, creative, CRM & loyalty and analytics teams.
- Employ a strategic approach to process; organize and divvy up work effectively.

**We’re Excited About You If You**
- 3-5 years related experience in brand marketing/advertising, ideally loyalty or retail with some digital experience.
- Ability to both think big picture and be a visionary/idea generator - leading program vision and planning while also getting involved in the details of program execution.
- Experience working with cross functional partners or clients to meet their business needs.
- Ability to organize and manage multiple detail-oriented projects and to meet deadlines.
- Willingness to approach projects with a can-do attitude and create process where there is not one.
- Proficiency in Word, Excel, and Power Point.

**While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy...**
- ** The people.**You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams - people you can be proud to work with.
- ** The learning.** We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
- ** The culture.** As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000 stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.

You can **unleash your creativity**, because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can** learn and evolve**, because we empower yo