Your role at Sephora: The Marketing Strategy, Senior Manager has the opportunity to help shape the future of Sephora’s marketing campaign strategy and annual marketing calendar. This position offers a birds-eye view of our multi-functional, omni-channel marketing team and helps ensure coordination against our strategic goals and key marketing levers that drive Sephora’s business. He/she/them/they will help identify, refine, and communicate our marketing priorities ensuring seasonal alignment across all channels including in-store, digital, and social. Your position at Sephora: - Marketing Strategy and Calendar Alignment:
- Lead annual, quarterly, and monthly planning process and meetings with senior executives to define and align Sephora’s marketing priorities
- Leverage quantitative/qualitative research and analysis to answer key business questions around the organization and deliver a compelling customer focused story
- Contribute to the total effectiveness of the department, communicating openly, solving problems proactively, offering creative ideas and working as a positive, engaged team member
- Develop key presentations such as brand health reports and annual marketing strategy and own cross functional communication
- Own the Sephora marketing calendar and tools. This includes owning inputs, accuracy, and tool/calendar oversite.
- Annual Strategic Planning Process Management:
- Own analyses, business cases, and storytelling for key strategic opportunity areas.
- Partner with leadership on content development and cross-functional partners on business case development.
- Trend and Competitive Analysis:
- Stay abreast of and communicate to team marketing and retail industry trends, technology developments and emerging business models relevant to Sephora’s future.
- Continually benchmark Sephora against retail and marketing leaders.
- Support key organizational activities.
- Coordinate and plan efforts for key organizational processes, meetings and milestones (e.g. All Hands meetings, facilitating offsites, etc.
We’re excited about you if you have/are: - 6+ years of experience in consumer marketing or marketing strategy
- Profile is likely someone who has a blend of hands-on marketing experience and consulting or strategy training
- Experience in retail
- MBA is preferred but not required
- Self-starter who can manage through ambiguity
- Excel skills are mandatory; strong detail orientation is essential
- Fluent in telling business stories through PowerPoint
- Note: This is role is a marketing strategy position; while corporate strategy would be a relevant complement to a candidate’s experience, we’re looking for candidates who are grounded in consumer-facing marketing
You’ll love working here because: - The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented, supportive, smart, and kind leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
- The product. Employees enjoy a product discount and receive free product (“gratis”) various times throughout the year. (Think your friends and family love you now? Just wait until you work at Sephora!)
- The business. It feels good to win – and Sephora is a leader in the retail industry, defining experiential retail with a digital focus and creating the most loved beauty community in the world…with the awards and accolades to back it up.
- The perks. Sephora offers comprehensive medical benefits, generous vacation/holiday time off, commuter benefits, and “Summer Fridays” (half-days every Friday between Memorial and Labor Day)…and so much more.
- The LVMH family. Sephora’s parent company, LVMH, is one of the largest luxury groups in the world, providing support to over 70 brands such as Louis Vuitton, Celine, Marc Jacobs, and Dior.
Working at Sephora’s Field Support Center (FSC) Our North American operations are based in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District, but you won’t hear us call it a headquarters – it’s the Field Support Center (FSC). At the FSC, we support our stores in providing the best possible experience for every client. Dedicated teams cater to our client’s every need by creating covetable assortments, curated content, compelling storytelling, smart strategy, skillful analysis, expert training, and more. It takes a lot of curious and confident individuals, disrupting the status quo and taking chances. The pace is fast, the fun is furious, and the passion is real. We never rest on our laurels. Our motto? If it’s not broken, fix it. |
