Job Description

LUXASIA is the leading beauty omnichannel distribution platform of Asia Pacific that has successfully enabled brand growth for more than 120 luxury beauty brands. Our integrated brand-building capabilities include luxury retail, online commerce, consumer marketing, and supply chain management. Since 1986, the company has partnered the world\xe2\x80\x99s finest brands, such as Aveda, Bvlgari, Calvin Klein, Diptyque, Hermes, La Prairie, Montblanc, and SK-II. We have also established Joint Ventures with the likes of LVMH Group, Elizabeth Arden, Puig, Yves Rocher, and By Terry. At the core of our business is a diverse and dynamic #OneTeam of 2000 talents which shapes the face of luxury beauty, and delight consumers daily across our growing footprint of 15 markets. Come join us now.

Position Purpose:
This role as Brand Manager of a leading luxury brand will be accountable to develop, plan and execute marketing, public relations, sales and promotional strategies within the brand\xe2\x80\x99s guidelines to support and achieve the sales plan. Together with the Lead Manager, this role will oversee, orchestrate and execute the brand\xe2\x80\x99s CRM, digital marketing, PR, social media, and retail execution, creating a consistent and engaging brand experience that is consumer focused.
You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand their problems and find innovative solutions for the broader market.

You will be fully responsible for driving all marketing planning and all communications, activations of the brand. To succeed in this role, the candidate is a strong marketing professional with a clear understanding of consumer marketing in the channel, and the communications and media landscape across Malaysia, with a high sensitivity to beauty. The ideal candidate also has retail/commercial experience, and has past experience managing a full brand P&L. A strong knowledge of CRM strategy and analytics will be an added advantage.

The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial & independent, possesses the ability to think strategically and analytically, and is personable.

Your Responsibilities:
1. Channel & Retail Marketing

• Be the key marketing liaison - Develop and implement a go-to-market channel marketing plan including promotion, animation partnerships and consumer activations.
• Ensures timely and perfect execution of all marketing activations offline and online at all times.
• Key Role in new POS openings \xe2\x80\x93 including boutiques and SIS
• Analyse potential partner relationships for product range, positioning strategy, pricing and promotions.
• Communicate effectively with all channel partners to align, plan and execute all product and trade marketing objectives, plans and activations before, during and post animation.
• Deepen channel customer development through CRM program activations.
• Initiate and coordinate ad-hoc corporate assignments, where required

2. Product Management

• Consolidate and update marketing team of post campaign reports and provide sales results and analysis monitor. Report all ROI of all programs for management reporting and feedback.
• Responsible for all forecasting and sampling management for product launches and trade and retailer activities.
• Management and tracking flow of product registration in Malaysia to ensure timely registration.
• Conduct market trend analysis, monitor competitors\xe2\x80\x99 moves and plan proactive actions
• Responsible for the seamless execution of all product launches and trade marketing activities following the Marketing Calendar in collaboration with marketing services, sales and training team, with the aim to build brand awareness, recruit new customers, retain existing customers and increase purchase consumption.
• Business and channel sales performance tracking and analysis, launch follow-up and action plan development.
• Implement Door-by-Door Marketing plan (CRM, events and promotions)
• Budget Management: Responsible for full P&L

3. Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)

• Defines the Brand\xe2\x80\x99s local CRM campaign priorities.
• Builds CRM campaign calendar.
• Ensures that customer segmentation remain up to date and relevant for each campaign.
• Develops relevant and engaging brand communications behind the right product mix.
• Master, improve and maximize the usage of customers information (purchase history) in developing relevant marketing program. Defines & executes CRM analytics.
• Strategize, develop and execute CRM programs for the brand.
• Evaluates CRM campaigns against target KPIs and shares learnings.

Who we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for:

• Have a tertiary qualification in Business Management, Finance or relevant specialisation.
• More than 4 years of brand management and/or marketing experience in beauty and/or FMCG industry.
• Good business insights to the industry and strong business acumen.
• Good analytical skills, problem solver, self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Strong understanding of the P&L of the business.
• Strong people management experience with the ability to motivate, inspire, coach and develop people.