Job Description

As a Travel Retail Marketing Specialist, you are responsible for the development of the global Travel Retail marketing plans. As a true brand expert, you know exactly how to convert the central Marketing campaigns and activations into successful Travel Retail campaigns and activation by connecting with the traveller on each leg of their journey and understanding their needs. Together with your colleagues from CHO and LHO you will create, execute, and evaluate campaigns and activations monthly. This means you need to be creative, have strong stakeholder management skills, have an eye for detail, and work efficiently and structured.

Next to that you will be responsible for all Marketing activities in our Standalone stores connecting closely with the commercial team, the program management team, and the global marketing teams. Furthermore, as a true brand specialist you will be the organiser and gatekeeper of all the Global Travel Retail Events and Conferences, such as TFWA WEC in Cannes, and TFWA APEC in Singapore.

You are energetic, result-driven, have a hands-on mentality and know how to convince others of your plans. Next to that you have a strong affinity with our brand and beauty, and a clear vision on the right commercial deployment for Rituals in Travel Retail.

For 40 hours per week, you:

• Manage all marketing activities in our Standalone Stores by connecting closely with the commercial team, the program management team, and the global marketing teams.
• Manage our innovation-marketing Travel Retail calendar to build omni-channel brand awareness and drive sales at our travel retail partners and airports.
• Lead the extensive analyses of Travel Retail data and Rituals sales, grasp trends, being closely connected with the commercial teams, and getting best practices from the markets to develop a clear Travel Marketing vision and use these insights to support business choices.
• Monitor the marketing budget for your Travel Retail partners and marketing activities (prepares yearly budget request, routes invoices and report on actuals vs budget throughout the year)
• Are part of the Travel Retail marketing team (4FTE) and greater Travel Retail team (35FTE) / Marketing head office team (60FTE)

We will put a lot of focus on your personal characteristics and your values. We are looking for a person with passion, energy, and a great deal of self-leadership. Someone that can take own initiatives and has an ability to prioritize. You are driven by a fast-paced work environment and are motivated to continuously improve and constructively question our way of working. The road to achieve our goals can be created in different ways, we do it together and we do it without prestige.

Qualifications

Building a global wellbeing beauty brand, Travel Retail is the channel to drive international trial and brand awareness in high exposure locations – connecting with the traveller on each leg of their journey. We are rapidly expanding our presence of standalone stores, shop-in-shop and hotels across the world, with a presence in over 100 countries we are growing our footprint in exploit and explore markets, like APAC and Americas.

Working together in a culturally diverse team spread across various international (office) locations, you will be based in Amsterdam and report to the Head Marketing of Travel Retail. Just like you, the team has a result-oriented way of working together and is passionate about travel and the beauty industry.

High on energy, low on ego and with a little bit of humor. As part of the Travel Retail & Marketing team, you are the connection between the CHO teams and the Travel retail team and partners, shaping a commercial and customer-centric roadmap; you are flexible, data-driven and a real connector proclaiming the Travel Retail dream to our internal and external stakeholders together with the team. And on top of it, you:

• Speak and write fluently in English;
• Have 2-4 years of relevant experience working in Travel Retail and/or (Trade) Marketing;
• Excellent communication skills with a talent for stakeholder management;
• Knowledge of Miro is a plus;
• Structured, result-oriented, energetic and have an eye for detail.

Grow with us as and show your ambition by applying via the website! The next steps are:

1. Caroline Blok (Talent Acquisition) will contact you within 10 working days for an introductory meeting via teams ;
2. You have a first and second interview with the business/team at the office, including online assessment ;
3. You will receive a proposal with the terms of employment .

We're not here to sell you beauty; we are here to make you feel good." Raymond Cloosterman, CEO Rituals.