PERMANENT CONTRACT - Strategy and Performance Manager – North Europe (M/F/X)

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Since its inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, Sephora has been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, Sephora continues to break with convention to drive its mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

With 56,000 employees in 35 countries, including 15,000 in Europe & Middle, we connect customers and beauty brands within the world's most passionate beauty community. With a curation of nearly 500 brands, and our own label, Sephora Collection, we offer the most unique and diverse range of products: fragrances, makeup, hair care, skincare... and much more.

As Strategy and Performance Manager, you will serve as the strategic and operational right hand to the Head of North Region, member of the EME Executive Committee of Sephora. Your core mission is to orchestrate, accelerate and deliver the execution of the region's new strategic cycle across highly dynamic and challenging markets. The role combines two dimensions:

• Steering the region: Act as a central tower ensuring seamless alignment between Sephora's global functions, the Head of North Region's vision and the country General Managers (GMs). You will clarify and cascade EME strategic shifts across the hubs, ensure that strategy is translated into actionable business KPIs and successfully executed, and provide the necessary support to the hubs.

• Delivering strategic projects: Act as a transformation enabler and operational project leader, ensuring that strategic initiatives are translated into concrete action plans, measurable milestones and sustainable business impact.

You will excel and enjoy this position if you are ready to actively handle the following missions:

1. Decision support & performance steering

• Business Intelligence: Synthesize and evaluate regional performance metrics (P&Ls, market shares, retail KPIs), and deliver proactive, data-driven insights and actionable recommendations to support the Head of North Region in decision-making.

• Financial Oversight: Partner with Region Management Control to track P&L consolidation, monitor budget variances and identify cost-optimization levers supporting business acceleration plans.

• Key Deliverables: Orchestrate high-quality strategic presentations and business reports for the EME Executive Committee and the LVMH Group (Strategic Plans, Budget cycles, Steering Committees).

1. Governance & network animation

• Leadership Governance: Structure, prepare and facilitate governance meetings (EME CODIR, North Region CODIR, GM seminars, performance reviews, project steering committees), ensuring rigorous follow-up of decisions, action plans and milestones.

• Cross-Border Collaboration: Act as a central facilitator to foster synergies and knowledge-sharing between hubs, ensure consistency in retail management and managerial best practices, and secure strong alignment with key external entities (Europe, South Region, UK and France).

• Representation: Stand in for the Head of North Region in key internal meetings when required, confidently representing and defending the strategic interests of the region.

1. Strategic execution & project leadership

• Project Structuring & Governance Support: Translate strategic ambitions into actionable roadmaps, governance models, timelines, deliverables and clear success metrics. Prepare and coordinate the related governance routines, including project reviews, steering committees, follow-up meetings and data-driven executive updates.

• Operational Execution: Lead the implementation of cross-functional strategic projects across the hubs, ensuring they are delivered on time, within scope and with strong stakeholder alignment on objectives, timelines, responsibilities and expected business outcomes. Ensure rigorous follow-up of key decisions, action plans and project milestones.

• Prioritization & Problem Solving: Anticipate execution risks, bottlenecks and dependencies, and proactively propose operational solutions.

• Performance Monitoring & Reporting: Monitor project performance indicators, implementation progress and transformation impact across the hubs.

• Change Management: Support hubs and local leadership teams in adopting new ways of working, processes and organizational changes linked to transformation projects.

Do not hesitate to apply if you have… or if you are…

• Education: Master's Degree from a Business/Engineering School or University.

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Strategy ou Strategy execution roles, with a proven track record of delivering strategic missions and a demonstrated ability to structure and run complex, cross-functional projects (roadmaps, governance, KPIs, change management).

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to read a P&L and synthesize complex topics into actionable recommendations.

• Sector Background: Experience in Retail, Beauty, Luxury, FMCG or other fast-paced consumer environments; a strategic and operational background in the beauty sector is highly preferred.

• Languages: Full professional proficiency / bilingual in English is mandatory. Knowledge of other languages within the region is an asset.

Here, you will find:

• Community, in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.

• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.

• Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

Join us and belong to something beautiful.

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