Category Executive, Franchise Markets

**Position**:
Category Executive, Franchise Markets (12 Months Contract)

**Profile**:
At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the ExtraOrdinary in each of us.

We are united by a common goal - **to reimagine the future of beauty.**

**The opportunity**:
The Category Executive, Franchise Markets play a key supporting role in many aspects of category management including effective planning for brand and product launches, assortment, pricing, and inventory management.

**You will shine here if you enjoy...**

Performing the following for all categories (Makeup, Skincare, Haircare & Fragrances)
- Liaising with brand partners & Franchise Partners (FPs) to facilitate the registration process for new brands, newness & registration renewal process of existing SKUs
- Work closely with marketing team to understand the promo plan, liaising with brand partners, FPs, and Finance to plan & execute the markdowns
- Liaising with brand partners to receive planogram, grid/endcap updates for new brands and newness
- Launch NIF management on brand portal for all brands, liaising with Brand portal team & new brands for initial launch setup

Managing the Makeup category (inclusive of Sephora Collection) which includes:

- Attending market week, sharing the market week summary with FPs, and liaising with FPs to share forecast for newness
- Help FPs with sales forecast for new brands and newness
- Purchase order management: Analyze the purchase orders received by FPs to ensure ordering is done basis the forecast, captures the newness, additional forecast incase of any new promo
- Assistance in preparing monthly sales review deck for brands covering various aspects such as MTD sales review, sub-category wise ranking, analysis of top natures viz a viz category, collating performance feedback from FPs, any other qualitative/quantitative insight, registration review etc.
- Assistance in pitching for new brands for markets for the Makeup category.
- Brand relationship management for the franchise markets
- Liaising with Sephora Indonesia, Sephora India & Brands to review the shipment status for brands on a weekly basis
- Spot trends in Franchise Markets and assist in planning brand pipeline, newness accordingly
- Reporting/MIS
- Liaising with analytics team for data management on DOMO for Franchise Markets

**We would love to hear from you if you possess/are**
- Min. 3 years Account/Brand Management experience, ideally from the beauty/fashion industry
- Bachelor's Degree in Business/Marketing
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Able to work well in a team and independently
- Able to perform under pressure and in a fast-paced environment

**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 you to be your best. You can **be yourself,** because you are what sets us apart. **_This,_** is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.**

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.