Senior Category Manager

The Opportunity

As the Senior Category Manager, you will act as the custodian and champion for your nominated category / categories.

You’ll shine here if you enjoy…

• Category Performance Tracking & Reporting: Monitoring omni-channel category performance across sales, margins, productivity, conversion, and inventory KPIs, providing insights to drive category growth and strategy execution.
• Trading Terms Negotiation & Review: Managing brand partnerships, contract renewals, commercial negotiations, annual brand plans, sales targets, and assortment strategies to maximize profitability.
• Brand / Product Launch Management: Leading end-to-end product launches, including sell-in processes, forecasting, stakeholder coordination, and launch execution across channels.
• Animation & Promotional Planning: Planning and executing promotional campaigns, sampling programs, and in-store activations to increase brand visibility and drive sales performance.
• Brand Portfolio Management: Evaluating brand performance, managed new brand onboarding, and conducted assortment rationalization and delisting initiatives to optimize portfolio productivity.
• Floorplan & Planogram Management: Overseeing merchandising, floorplan execution, and planogram development to maximize space productivity and enhance the customer experience.
• Inventory & Supply Chain Management: Partnere with supply chain teams to optimize inventory levels, improve stockholding KPIs, and ensure product availability for launches and campaigns.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• At least 10 years of Account / Brand Management experience - ideally from the beauty/fashion industry
• Bachelor’s Degree in business or Marketing
• Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to influence
• Strong analytical skills, and is result-oriented
• A keen interest in the beauty industry with a flair for trends and style

Sephora is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace for all. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, or other employment practices. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.