Senior Manager Growth & Planning - Entry to Prestige

Description

The Growth & Planning Senior Manager supports regional Go-to-Market planning based on Europe & Emerging Calendar, priorities & initiatives, and ensures operational excellence across the region, coordinating commercial planning, assortment strategy, and cross-functional alignment between marketing, demand planning, supply chain, finance and retail teams.

​Drive Regional GTM Planning​ across all channels (online and offline)

• ​Support the Brand VP / GM (and the Growth & Planning Director when relevant) in defining regional growth ambitions and plans, Go-to-Market and channel choices (innovation side by side and building blocks)​
• ​Support the definition of regional marketing calendar priorities based on Global strategy and regional growth plans (including online priorities)​
• ​Define assortment choices and differentiation strategies across channels to maximize commercial opportunities​

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​Drive Commercial Planning and Operational Alignment​

• ​Ensure demand planning (DP) sufficiency and robustness, providing strategic market insights to the Demand Planning team​
• ​Support with RS/SP/LE reconciliation ​
• ​Review and challenge affiliate New Product Launch (NPL) forecasts for key “5-star” programs to ensure realistic and impactful plans​
• ​Collaborate with Supply Chain on stock arbitration to balance supply constraints and market priorities​
• ​Coordinate visual merchandising (VM) decisions with the RDDC team to ensure consistent and impactful retail execution. ​
• ​Ensure operational alignment across brands, demand planning, and supply chain teams​

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​Support IBP process and financial planning​

• ​Prepare content for monthly IBP with Brand VP / GM (and the Growth & Planning Director when relevant) including selection of key topics at hand​
• ​Coordinate IBP process with regional stakeholders (Finance, Supply Chain)

Experience

• ​​​Experience in the luxury cosmetics or beauty industry
• ​Strong strategic and analytical thinking with a broad view of the business, market, and consumer landscape
• ​Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to build strong cross-functional relationships
• ​Expertise in multi-market and international marketing environments
• ​Commercial experience
• ​Experience in budget planning, forecasting, and performance analysis
• ​Experience in product marketing and/or online management
• ​Results-driven with a bias for action and excellence in execution
• ​Entrepreneurial mindset with creative and innovative problem-solving abilities
• ​Fluent in English; additional languages a plus