Assistant Brand Manager

Job Title: Assistant Brand Manager
Reports To: Brand Manager
Job Type: Full-Time, Overtime Non-Exempt

About The Crème Shop:

The Crème Shop is a leading beauty brand based in Los Angeles, known for blending the best of K-Beauty innovation with playful, creative designs. We offer a wide range of products, ranging from thoughtful skincare to colorful cosmetics, all crafted with quality ingredients and a commitment to cruelty-free practices. Our mission is to make beauty fun, inclusive, and accessible to everyone. We invite professionals who share our passion for beauty and innovation to join our team, where creativity meets expertise.

About the Role:

This position is ideal for someone eager to gain well-rounded experience in the beauty industry, as it combines marketing, product development, and extensive cross-functional collaboration. The ABM would support primarily their direct manager and track their own projects, but would also support the senior manager with holistic, integrated marketing and development functions.

Responsibilities:

Product Development: Partner with the manager and senior manager to brainstorm and ideate new product concepts, contributing to portfolio expansion. The ABM will own approximately 30% of category product development. Responsibilities include:

• Market Research on future beauty trends & top products with competitors.
• Execute external briefs for vendor submissions.
• Product code and material request & tracking.
• Design inspiration and CAD request for new product developments.
• Track process of product development from product idea to the purchasing order stage.
• Ensure licensor product approvals or feedback in collaboration with the creative team.
• Write all product information for packaging and review with regulatory.
• Write product claims and review with regulatory.
• Track product stability and compatibility testing with regulatory.
• Partner with project manager to ensure launches are meeting timeline milestones.
• Evaluate and provide feedback on development samples and formulas.
• Update Product development tracker as new information is provided with cost, price, master and unit cartons, final legal name, delivery date, etc.
• Create product 1-sliders for retailer pitches and integrated marketing decks.
• Collaborate with multiple vendors on product ideation.

Integrated Marketing: Assist in campaign strategy by developing activation ideas, photography mood boards, and messaging concepts.

• Market research to understand top brand’s activations and campaigns.
• Mood board development for photography.
• Product messaging for ABM’s specific product launches.
• Activation ideas such as events, collaborations, retail activations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing and/or management.
• 1-3 years of experience working in marketing and/or product development fields.
• Experienced with Excel and PowerPoint is necessary.
• Project management skills.
• Marketing Research Experience.
• Must be comfortable presenting.
• Must have strong social and collaborative skills.

Benefits:

• 15 days of PTO, 10 Paid Holidays!
• Eligible for benefits on the first of the month following 30 days of hire
• Company-sponsored voluntary vision and dental plans
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Wellness incentive programs
• 50% off employee discount programs
• Monthly catered lunches

Salary Range: $65-$85K per year, depending on experience.

The Crème Shop is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, religion, citizenship, national origin/ancestry, physical/mental disabilities, military status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Education

Preferred

• Bachelors or better in Marketing or related field

Skills

Preferred

• Brand Marketing

Behaviors

Preferred

• Innovative: Consistently introduces new ideas and demonstrates original thinking
• Detail Oriented: Capable of carrying out a given task with all details necessary to get the task done well
• Dedicated: Devoted to a task or purpose with loyalty or integrity

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