TEMP Associate Manager, Brand Profit - Fenty - Kendo Brands

Job Description

ABOUT KENDO

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world's largest luxury group. A play on the words "can do", Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.

Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative. A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone's voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $68,155 - $85,193 based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks in the summer and July and December wellness/shutdown weeks for applicable positions.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab, Ole Henriksen.

Kendo Brands has a hybrid work model with three days in office and two days remote each week.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Brand Profit is the strategic project-based team that identifies and drives key projects that will lead to major ROI, profit, and uplift team morale.

The Associate Manager, BP will support all brand profit activities to improve Kendo OP. They will report to the Associate Manager, BP and will deliver solutions to operational problems, finding creative ways to drive efficiency with best-in-class processes. The ideal candidate is eager to roll up their sleeves and take on new challenges and will be inspired by the possibility of "what could be" at Kendo!

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Transform fundamental business processes to enable continuous improvement and improve OP

• Assist with the implementation of our global pricing process
• Support the roll out of a revised disco process and all related elements
• Drive enhancements of our product assortment process on Smartsheet for all brands
• Help implement a new sampling process for all brands across the company

• Oversee pricing and data integrity for all brands (pricing documents, hierarchy, etc.)
• Support and coordinate strategic presentations & meetings
• Additional profit-driving projects that will help improve company profitability

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree required
• 3-4 years of related business experience, color cosmetics experience preferred but not required
• Previous exposure to Process Improvement and Project Management a strong plus
• Strong understanding of retail math and comfortable manipulating large data sets

• Highly detail oriented with strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communicator and team player; able to build strong partnerships with brand, operations, and merchandise planning
• Proficient in using Excel to build reports, PowerPoint and Smartsheet
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Thrives in an environment that is fast-paced, rapidly changing, and client service-oriented
• Highest level of professionalism; calm under pressure