Kendo Brands, Inc. Looking for Brand and Marketing Assistant at Ciudad de México, México Full Time

Responsibilities

Brand and Marketing Management

• Assist the Brand and Marketing Manager in building and executing the brands strategies and in ensuring high quality execution.
• Assist with timeline tracking including calendar, creative brief schedule, assets share-out with retailers and all upcoming activations milestone dates.
• Collaborate closely with Retail & Education Team to ensure brand message is cascaded via BAs to consumers.
• Coordinate product samples – track, organize and distribute product to internal and external teams.
• Assist in Planning and executing marketing plans for newness and core in country, in accordance to brand guidelines and Management reco.
• Assist in Monitoring the effectiveness of marketing activities and in refining concepts and strategies into innovating marketing activities that address business objectives: The candidate needs to have a social and digital first mindset.
• Partner with Sephora teams to implement a communication schedule leveraging Sephora platforms and programs and identify new opportunities to reach new and engaged customers.
• Assist the PR and Social Media agencies to ensure that all PR and social media strategies align with overall brand objectives.
• Maintain a professional relationship with key retail partners through effective and timely communication.
• Monitor and follow up expenses and ensure that they are respecting set budgets.
• Collect, organize, and analyze competitive information as required by brand management: Activities, pricing, best sellers…
• Miscellaneous administrative tasks including PO raising, meeting coordination etc..

Planning and operations

• Assist and partner with the Planning and the Brand Managers to ensure product forecasts, inventory and obsolescence plans are all aligned to the brand strategies.
• Assist on the planning and forecasting of new product launches and on the negotiation of visibility placements of new product pipeline with retail partners.
• Assist the Planning and Retail teams to ensure healthy stock levels are maintained at all times, especially on key bets and top SKUs.

Product Merchandising

• Maintain and update channel assortment files that respect the brand strategy.
• Take ownership of providing retailers with the assets and information needed to merchandize products on retailers e-com.
• Propose ideas to optimize VM and dotcom product pages for sales performance while balancing brand vision, client experience and budget.
• Collaborate cross functionally and with the retailer to ensure proper implementation of in-store marketing animation plan/guidelines from Brand Owners

Presentation, Reporting & Analysis

• Assist in presentation preparation for management meetings.
• Provide weekly sales recaps, ad-hoc reporting and analysis as needed.
• Prepare monthly reports and analyses to be used by brand management and ad hoc projects as needed Assist in developing regional presentations and business recaps.
• Be in-tune with the beauty retailer landscape, identify opportunities to further drive the business, and monitor and analyze market trends, competitor activities; provide ideas of action plans and follow up on implementation.
• Maintain effective communication with cross-functional teams and channels: Regional Teams, Marketing, Creative,
• Prepare, support and when needed lead meetings with effective agendas and clear outcomes.

Profile

Requirements

• Preferably 3-5 years of experience with a previous experience in Marketing/ Trade Marketing in the cosmetics industry.
• College degree related to Brand management and Marketing, or equivalent experience required, preferably 1-2 years in retail, beauty, or fashion.
• Passionate about skincare and beauty.
• Autonomous, organized, results-oriented and with a real analytical sense.
• Keen attention to detail
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a deadline-intensive environment.
• Social Media and Digitally savvy is a must.
• Must be fully fluent in English and Spanish.
• Must have proficiency with MS Office, including basic Excel and PowerPoint functions.
• Team player with a positive attitude and curiosity to learn.
• Motivated self-starter; able to be resourceful and work independently.

Additional information

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group. A play on the words “can do”, Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring, and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail, and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

“CAN DO” SPIRIT: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals.

ADVOCACY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces, so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.

STORYTELLING: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It’s our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.

RESILIENCE: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.

PRODUCT EXCELLENCE: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Fragrance, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab and Ole Henriksen.

Position Summary

Looking for beauty addicts with strategic, global mindsets – if you love beauty and are excited to participate in FENTY’s success story, this job is for you!

The Brand and Marketing Assistant will be responsible for assisting the Brand and Marketing Manager in all brand efforts to drive the business. This role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to meet tight deadlines, and creative problem-solving skills. The assistant will have to partner closely with cross functional teams, store staff and retailer partners to bring the Global Brand vision to life and to ensure achievement of targets with respect to budget and KPI targets set for the brand.

This is a 360-degree role, with involvement in all brand management and marketing functions for the brands portfolio.

This person will embody the Kendo values and should have the skills to present credible Beauty and Skincare information.

• Contract type: Permanent Job