Trade Marketing Manager

Our client, a prestige beauty company, is seeking a Trade Marketing Manager, North America to join their New York City team in a hybrid capacity (3 days in-office). This role will provide strategic guidance across launches, seasonal programming, and market execution, while ensuring alignment with global brand standards and timelines. A strong understanding of market dynamics, retailer expectations, and competitive landscape is essential to strengthening brand presence and performance globally.

Job Duties Include:

• Own and manage global marketing calendars to ensure consistency across regions and key retailers, while delivering market-specific assets, promotional tools, and launch materials within deadlines
• Partner with international markets to collect quarterly business reviews and remain closely informed on brand performance
• Ensure consistent implementation of global brand guidelines across international retail partners
• Collaborate with global trade marketing and marketing teams to tailor programming by market, including in-store activations, GWPs, sampling, merchandising, and seasonal initiatives
• Partner with distributors and global retail partners to support both new launches and core business
• Support international launch planning, including asset timelines, order cut dates, and launch toolkits (PR, education, and marketing materials)
• Track launch readiness across markets to ensure smooth, on-time execution
• Lead competitive research across pricing, promotions, and holiday programming
• Collaborate with international partners to gather and analyze forecasts for new launches, core assortments, and key programs throughout the year
• Monitor forecast changes and recommend actions aligned with market needs
• Share forecasts and reporting files with international markets on a monthly basis
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure inventory readiness, appropriate launch quantities, and alignment on forecast adjustments
• Work closely with international markets and global marketing partners on market-specific visual merchandising needs, including displays, testers, visuals, and collateral
• Ensure timely delivery of style guides and visual assets for new product launches
• Prepare annual and quarterly business reports and support international business reviews
• Partner with markets to gather comprehensive post-launch recaps, including retail performance, in-store execution, e-commerce activations, and social support

Job Qualifications Include:

• 5 years of experience in trade marketing, brand marketing, or retail marketing, ideally within beauty, fragrance, or consumer goods
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field; MBA preferred
• Strong understanding of international markets and global retail dynamics
• Proven experience managing global product launches
• Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and analytical capabilities

Salary: $120K-125K bonus

The description above is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required.

While PCG appreciates all applicants, only those qualified will be contacted. Thank you for your application. We look forward to hearing from you!

If you believe you are a great candidate for this position, and the salary listed does not meet your expectations, we would still love to speak to you! PCG, in good faith, believes that this posted range of compensation is the accurate range for this role at this location at the time of this posting. PCG and our clients may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range depending on candidate qualifications. This range may be modified in the future. This role may also be eligible for additional compensation including incentive pay, discretionary bonuses, and a comprehensive benefits package, details of which will be provided during the hiring process.

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