Are you passionate about beauty and cosmetics? Ready to lead a dynamic team and create unique products at Flying Tiger Copenhagen? We’re looking for someone to build the foundation for our Beauty category!

What You'll Do:

In this new and exciting position as Category Manager for Personal Care & Beauty, you’ll ensure our target consumers, and their shopping needs are central to every decision. You’ll drive commercial growth initiatives, ensuring sustainability and profitability are at the heart of everything we do.

• Shape Our Products: Use your experience in the cosmetics and beauty segment to execute the divisional strategy with actionable category plans. Push for continuous improvements and achieve financial targets and profitability goals through a clear understanding of our consumers across all markets and channels.
• Strategic Foundation: Work strategically to build the foundation for our Beauty category, establishing a strong base for future growth and success.
• Boost Sales: Conduct competitor mapping, identify market growth opportunities by country and channel, including social media. Work with Category Directors and Design to shape future commercial themes and build a cohesive product assortment.
• Project-Based Work: Lead and manage projects that set the foundation for our Beauty category, ensuring strategic focus and commercial growth.
• Communicate: Clearly share strategies within the team and with external partners. Use these strategies to create commercial assortment plans that match store grading and price architecture.
• Innovate: Attend fairs, check trend sites, and monitor competitors to ensure we build the best assortments for core and campaign collections. Continuously test and trial new ideas to capture trends and opportunities.
• Optimize: Simplify operations and ensure all deadlines are met. Collaborate with the Product Procurement team to secure delivery of products within cost targets and conduct weekly sales reviews to assess performance.
• Support: Lead, support, and develop a passionate team of Product Managers and Coordinators. Foster cross-functional collaboration to streamline operations and speed up processes.

What You Bring:

• Experience: Proven experience in a buying or category management role within the cosmetics and beauty sector.
• Product Sense: Ability to identify and create commercial winners.
• Business Savvy: Strong analytical skills, business acumen, and a thorough understanding of sales analysis.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to create commercially effective assortment plans based on data analysis and market trends.
• Team Leadership: Capability to support and develop high-performing teams, manage effectively through change, and take responsibility for team performance.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal skills, able to analyse data, interpret it, and present confidently and effectively.
• Organized: Structured approach, able to prioritize and work effectively in a fast-paced environment, showing resilience when faced with challenges.
• Trend Spotter: Forward-thinking with a knack for anticipating consumer trends to identify gaps and opportunities.
• English Fluency: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

What We Offer:

As part of the Product team at Flying Tiger Copenhagen, you'll join nearly 40 dedicated colleagues motivated by developing the most unique, quirky, fun, and relevant products you didn’t know existed. We are a highly international department, always in close collaboration with key stakeholders in Denmark, our Shanghai office, and the global retail organization.

Flying Tiger Copenhagen is a company with strong values founded in Scandinavian culture. We aim to be fun and relevant, putting our hearts into everything we do. Here are some of the perks we offer:

• Great Location: Our vibrant head office is in the heart of Copenhagen.
• Flexibility: Enjoy a flexible work environment with options to work from home.
• Perks: Special discounts in our Danish Flying Tiger Copenhagen stores, an attractive pension plan, and private health insurance that also covers children.
• Delicious Food: Enjoy tasty meals in our canteen every day, with cake on Thursdays.
• Fun Environment: A social, fun, and informal workplace with parties, Friday bars, staff clubs, and more.
• International Culture: Be part of a dynamic, international team that values Scandinavian culture and strong company values.
• Unique Benefits: Delicious restaurant food in our own canteen every day, including cake on Thursdays, and many other occasions to celebrate and enjoy sweet treats together.

We will be talking to candidates on an ongoing basis, so hurry up and show us what you’ve got – we can’t wait to meet you!

Did you know?

We take climate change very seriously and work very hard to minimize our carbon footprint. We do this by buying less plastic and more renewable materials – and we also want to make sure that all stores are run on renewable energy. We walk the talk – and make sure that what we do is validated by external experts, in the Science Based Targets initiative. You can read more about our work with climate action here.