Senior Manager Growth & Planning - Make-up
Date: Oct 15, 2026
Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine, J, FR
Company: ELC Beauty LLC
Description
The Growth & Planning Senior Manager supports regional Go-to-Market planning based on Europe & Emerging Calendar, priorities & initiatives, and ensures operational excellence across the region, coordinating commercial planning, assortment strategy, and cross-functional alignment between marketing, demand planning, supply chain, finance and retail teams.
Drive Regional GTM Planning across all channels (online and offline)
- Support the Brand VP / GM (and the Growth & Planning Director when relevant) in defining regional growth ambitions and plans, Go-to-Market and channel choices (innovation side by side and building blocks)
- Support the definition of regional marketing calendar priorities based on Global strategy and regional growth plans (including online priorities)
- Define assortment choices and differentiation strategies across channels to maximize commercial opportunities
Drive Commercial Planning and Operational Alignment
- Ensure demand planning (DP) sufficiency and robustness, providing strategic market insights to the Demand Planning team
- Support with RS/SP/LE reconciliation
- Review and challenge affiliate New Product Launch (NPL) forecasts for key “5-star” programs to ensure realistic and impactful plans
- Collaborate with Supply Chain on stock arbitration to balance supply constraints and market priorities
- Coordinate visual merchandising (VM) decisions with the RDDC team to ensure consistent and impactful retail execution.
- Ensure operational alignment across brands, demand planning, and supply chain teams
Support IBP process and financial planning
- Prepare content for monthly IBP with Brand VP / GM (and the Growth & Planning Director when relevant) including selection of key topics at hand
- Coordinate IBP process with regional stakeholders (Finance, Supply Chain)
Experience
- Experience in the luxury cosmetics or beauty industry
- Strong strategic and analytical thinking with a broad view of the business, market, and consumer landscape
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to build strong cross-functional relationships
- Expertise in multi-market and international marketing environments
- Commercial experience
- Experience in budget planning, forecasting, and performance analysis
- Experience in product marketing and/or online management
- Results-driven with a bias for action and excellence in execution
- Entrepreneurial mindset with creative and innovative problem-solving abilities
- Fluent in English; additional languages a plus
Qualifications
Master's Degree or equivalent