Birchbox - Sourcing & Buying Manager - Makeup
Date Posted: Tuesday 3rd October 2017
Date Expires: Friday 3rd November 2017
Overview:
We are looking for an experienced Sourcing & Buying Manager, focused on Makeup / Colour Cosmetics, to join the Brand Partnerships Team here at Birchbox, UK’s # 1 Beauty Box. Our innovative business model brings unique opportunities and challenges, and we need more help to continue growing our subscription and ecommerce business. This role is based in our central London office, with an ideal start date in October.
Key Responsibilities:
- Sourcing large quantities of high-quality, deluxe sample and travel-sized products each month for our subscription beauty box, working toward aggressive sales targets and within a strict budget managing your own sales portfolio / pipeline, brand partner outreach, and deal negotiation
- Cold-calling, emailing, and conducting face to face brand meetings to build strong, long-term relationships with brand partners
- Identifying exciting new brands and products to add to our assortment across both established and emerging brands, prioritising SKUs that are right for the Birchbox “beauty majority” target customer (not the beauty-obsessed)
- Working closely with our Senior Brand Manager and cross-teams (in-house PR, Social, Marketing and Creative) to design compelling and effective 360 degree marketing campaigns for your brand partners
- Working closely with our Merchandising Team to determine strategic full-size assortments and initial orders to buy in for your brands for sale on our ecommerce shop
- Working closely with International teams in other markets to source products from around the world and leading internally on some international campaign opportunities
- Executing legal agreement/contracts and sample orders with brand partners
- Providing admin support such as reporting on sourcing pipeline, team budget, ensuring delivery of sample products from brand partners to our warehouse alongside our Logistics Team
- Keeping a pulse on beauty market trends, up and coming cult brands, new product launches
Your experience qualification should include:
- 5+ years experience in Buying/Brand Manager role in Beauty/Cosmetics industry
- Strong relationship-building, cold-calling, pitching and negotiation skills
- Experience with e-commerce/digital is advantageous
- Salesforce and Excel knowledge is advantageous
- UK work permit required
You also…
… Motivated by a performance based bonus/monthly sales commission
…Have an entrepreneurial spirit and crave a high-growth, fast-paced environment
…Analytical and a numbers junkie! You love using stats and numbers to make decisions and prove your point
…A positive team-player who thrives on challenges and the opportunity to work with your teammates to problem solve
…Motivated to learn and have the mindset that no job is too small
…A sticker for the details – you pride yourself on the quality of your work and don’t send anything out without triple-checking
…A planner and an organizer. You make spreadsheets for everything and are already setting multiple reminders for things that need to get done six months from now
…Have a passion about beauty products and trends
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