Retail Media Manager - 12 month FTC | Cult Beauty

Life at THG Beauty 

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader. 

Who is Cult Beauty?

Well, we’re a beauty-obsessed team who share a common goal — to become the most trusted beauty retailer in the world! We’re all about intelligent beauty, from the way we pick our ever-lusted-after brands to how we talk to our exceptionally savvy customers. Our Cult Community values transparency and so do we. That’s why we only sell the products that truly blow us away and publish every review on our site. To achieve this goal, we want to collaborate with individuals who have the same vision. As part of the Cult Beauty team, you’ll be encouraged to share ideas and empowered to aim for the skies. We’re a team so if we fail, we fail together and try again. We’re not just here to sellthe most unbelievably amazing beauty products in the world, we also want to challenge the definition of what ‘beauty’ is and use our platform to challenge the status quo — both in our industry and society.

This is a fixed-term contract to provide maternity cover, offering an exciting opportunity to make an impact in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

As a Retail Media Manager, you’ll: 

• Develop, own and implement retail media and partnership marketing strategy across digital platforms for a portfolio of brands, aligned to the Cult Beauty Brand marketing calendar and ecommerce goals
• Execute and manage end to end tenancy media campaigns across creative, display, email CRM, organic social and content aligned brand objectives, JBP, seasonal campaigns, and promotional calendars
• Oversee and manage offsite/ 3rd party media deliverables and corresponding budgets to these campaigns i.e sponsored product, programmatic media, paid media Optimise campaigns based on KPIs for your brand portfolio such as ROAS, CTR, conversions, traffic, NTB and RTB.
• Accountable for securing income from portfolio of brands to achieve fiscal targets set inline with budget of your category and overall retail media dept budget.
• Work cross-functionally across core performance marketing channels, brand marketing, buying and merchandising to align media with trade and shopper marketing efforts.
• Analyse campaign data and insights to produce actionable recommendations to report on campaign effectiveness, providing insights to key stakeholders.
• Use attribution tools and dashboards to measure online impact.

What skills and experience do I need for this role? 

• Strong understanding of the retail media landscape, including on-site and off-site media.
• Strong understanding of multiband, ecommerce infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with ability to forecast and work to budget.
• Intermediate understanding of programmatic digital advertising platforms (e.g. Criteo, Liveramp, META, TikTok).
• Strong communication, relationship building and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint, and media analytics skills.
• 5 years experience in a related role- retail media/ digital advertising

What’s in it for me? 

Career Development 

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team. 

• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider. 

Enhanced Leave 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. 

• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us! 

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.  

• Up to 10 days compassionate leave. 

• Buy back up to 3 days each year. 

• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months. 

Wellbeing Support 

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP. 

• Access our in-house CBT therapist. 

• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.  

• State-of-the-art on-site gym. 

• Access to our on-site physio. 

Other Perks 

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme. 

• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.  

• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands. 

• On-site staff shop. 

• Access to on-site barber. 

• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation. 

• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.