Category Executive

Position

Category Executive

Profile

Sephora is the world’s leading global prestige beauty retail brand. With 56 000 passionate employees operating in 35 markets, Sephora connects customers and beauty brands within the world’s most trusted and dynamic beauty community. We serve a highly engaged community of hundreds of millions of beauty followers across our global omnichannel network of more than 3 200 stores and iconic flagships, and our e-commerce and digital platforms, offering personalized and immersive seamless experiences across every touchpoint. With our curation of more than 500 brands and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most unique and diverse range of prestige beauty products, tailored to our customers’ needs from fragrance to make-up, haircare, skincare and beyond, as we constantly reimagine the world of prestige beauty.

Since our inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, we have been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, we continue to break with convention to drive our mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

Sephora has been active in Turkey since 2007, with 42 stores and online in 10 different cities. As Sephora Turkey, we are looking for a “ Category Executive ”

Mission:

Contribute & execute category strategy with most curated and balanced offer and maximize the business with efficient & strategic action plan to maintain the leadership as an omni-retailer.

You will be responsible for :

• Oversee vendor selection, negotiation, and performance management, ensuring Coordination & implementation of multi-brand category strategy & action plan with the relevant stake-holders both inside and outside the company.
• Full responsibility for the KPI’s of: Sales, Margin, Inventory, Market share and growth.
• Actively take role on budget process and monitor the realization of sales and margins.
• Brand management of exclusive brands
• Monitoring of assortments, merchandising updates & provide max. efficiency on store layouts
• Management of transversal projects: brand productivity-assortment optimization
• Managing OMNI trade plan: product and POS orders, local adaptations and online/ offline implementations
• Close collaboration with Europe Catman team to bring feedback to HQ of local specificities & opportunities, exchanging best practice and proposing action plan.
• Bring constant supports to stores/ identifying problems /bringing corporate solution.
Identify the opportunities of sales and margin development

Do not hesitate to apply if you have… or if you are …

• Bachelor’s degree in related fields
• At least 5 years of experience in Category Management.
• Strong knowledge multi-brand and omni-channel category strategies, and experience in managing exclusive brand portfolios
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with marketing, merchandising, supply chain, and store teams
• Strong analytical mindset, commercial acumen, and problem-solving ability.
• Ability to synthesize complex information and communicate effectively across multiple levels and functions.
Fluent in English (spoken and written); French is a plus.

While at Sephora, you’ll enjoy…

• The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams – people you can be proud to work with.
• The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
• The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. At Sephora we are a community of 56,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores.
• Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We pledge to create a beauty community where everyone ’ s uniqueness is celebrated, respected, and honored. Sephora recruits and recognises all types of talent, and is committed to both prevention of all discrimination and the respect of individuality.

You can unleash your creativity , because we’ve got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself , because you are what sets us apart.