ASSISTANT BRAND MANAGER COLOR COSMETICS (6 MONTHS INTERNSHIP)

– EXPORT EUROPE
 

ABOUT COTY  

We’re Coty, one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care. Coty is the global leader in fragrance and number three in color cosmetics. Coty’s products are sold in over 150 countries around the world. Coty and its brands are committed to a range of social causes as well as seeking to minimize its impact on the environment.

In Consumer Beauty, we are currently in process to drive turnaround and value creation on our most Iconic brands under the leadership of our incoming CEO Sue Y. Nabi. This transformation effort includes re-centering our innovation program on strong consumer centricity, leveraging emergent needs and trends to drive Brand value creation and fixing what is limiting growth. Max Factor, Rimmel, Bourjois transformation journey in Europe will be pivotal to fuel growth in years to come. A once in a lifetime opportunity which you could now be part of!

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

The Export Distributor Markets teams (EDM) is responsible for the full portfolio of Coty Consumer Beauty brands, including Make-up, Scenting and Body Care categories in 35 markets across Europe.

This team offers a great opportunity to build experience in regional management, brand portfolio management and involves collaboration with multiple stakeholders across countries and functions.

THE ROLE

Are you a keen junior marketer with creative flair and collaborative spirit?

Are you looking to develop your career in a dynamic regional marketing environment?

If so, we’d love to hear from you! Our Coty Export Europe team is looking for an Assistant Brand Manager to work on Color cosmetics brands: Max Factor, Rimmel and Bourjois.

In this role, you will report into the Senior Marketing Manager and support her in creating and implementing 360 local marketing strategies to drive growth across the Export Europe markets.

You will also work closely with cross-functional departments such as Demand Planning, Sales, Trade, and Finance.

This role is a great opportunity to discover the full process of in-market product launch & many different aspects of local marketing focusing on both long-term brand building, as well as shorter-term business drivers like trade activations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Marketing projects management

• Provide support to the Marketing Team in the management of the product life cycle
• Products launches adaptation and activation in Export Europe
• Deployment of Strategy and Assets to brand stakeholders
• Assortment management (product catalogues)
• Support in creation and execution of marketing campaigns
• Distributors requests, price lists updates, discontinuations follow up, registration process, etc.

Analysis and Monitoring:

• Develop category knowledge and analytics capacities:
• Monitor and analyze market conditions to proactively identify key competitor and consumer trends.
• Work closely with Brand & Product Manager to develop analytical skills analyzing periodically sell-in and sell-out of assigned brands as well as the competition.

MISCELLANEUS

• Support the Marketing Manager in their daily tasks 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Min qualification

• Recently graduated or currently studying (MBA or Masters in Business, Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain)
• Languages: fluency in English
• Passion for beauty and our brands
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong organizational, analytical and time management skills.
• Solutions and results oriented
• Creative and interruptive way of thinking
• Proactive
• Team player
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivated

PERIOD & ALLOWANCE

This internship is full-time (38 hours per week), for a duration of 6 months running from +/- February 15th 2025 up to +/- July 15th 2025.

You will receive an internship allowance.

The internship can be combined with a thesis. Be aware that this will largely have to be done in your own time.

CONCLUDING

Our people make us who we are. They are the brightest minds bringing the boldest ideas to life every day. If you’re the kind of person who refuses to settle, if you want to think bigger, learn faster and go further than you ever thought possible – we’d love to hear from you.