General Manager - EMEA Sales

Location: London, Hybrid

Salary: Up to £150,000 + Package

Industry: Retail/Beauty

The Company:

Do you want to be part of one of the fastest growing cosmetics brands in the world? Now is your opportunity to do just that! We are on the search for a General Manager, EMEA to lead the EMEA sales function, ensuring consistent annual, quarterly, and periodic delivery of sales growth targets and channel profitability. You will be part of a dynamic and enthusiastic team with huge ambition. Your strategic influence will be instrumental in strengthening brand presence across key wholesale accounts in EMEA. If you are a strategic, results-driven sales leader with a proven track record in beauty industry sales, this opportunity could be perfect for you!

General Manager, EMEA - Responsibilities:

• Ownership of account relationships
• Complete responsibility and delivery of the UK, Europe and Middle East revenue and contribution targets
• Optimise regional opportunity in partnership with global brand team and strategies
• Drive regional expansion strategy
• Ensure best in class forecasting across the sales function, ensuring key deadlines are met
• Work closely with operations and finance to ensure customer satisfaction
• Provide sales and profitability forecasts to ensure sustained commercial viability
• Work closely with marketing to build and execute channel plans
• Lead various commercially-led internal projects to support company value-creation
• Support DTC international expansion strategy
• Support weekly trade meetings and report any issues that arise
• Track sales goals and report results as necessary
• Oversee the activities and performance of the regional sales function

General Manager, EMEA - Requirements:

• Experience in commercial leadership/management with solid experience in beauty/cosmetics.
• Strategic thinker who can conceptualize, coordinate, and project manage the execution of commercial strategies to deliver required results.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across the functions internally and externally.
• Ability to think strategically while being detail-oriented in order to solve complex problems and optimize trading.
• Understand the financial impact of decisions. Able to leverage financial metrics (Sales, Profits, ROI, etc.) to help make business recommendations.
• International experience or knowledge required.