Role: Assistant Manager
- Global Brand Partnerships
Brand: NYX
Location: El Segundo, CA
Role summaryThe Assistant Manager, NYX Brand Partnerships helps create culturally relevant collaborations that connect the brand with fandoms, communities, and emerging trends. The role supports partnerships from concept through launch-translating cultural insights into compelling product ideas and working closely with partners and internal teams to bring them to life.
Key responsibilities- Stay on top of brand culture, fandoms, entertainment, beauty, and social trends to identify timely partnership opportunities.
- Research potential partners and communities, translating cultural insights into relevant collaboration and product concepts.
- Support partnership briefs, proposals, presentations, product concepts, and go-to-market plans.
- Partner with Product Development on product direction, shade development, samples, and approvals.
- Work with Operations to track products against the approved concept, specifications, timelines, and launch requirements.
- Partner with Finance and relevant teams to develop and monitor product margins
- Coordinate timelines, deliverables, approvals, and communications across partners and internal stakeholders.
- Collaborate on packaging, campaign assets, and activations across relevant channels, ensuring they reflect both the partner's world and NYX brand culture.
- Prepare partner materials, meeting notes, status updates, and post-launch reports.
- Ensure work follows brand guidelines, approval processes, and applicable compliance requirements.
Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, product development, or a related field-or equivalent experience.
- Experience in marketing, product development, or project coordination; beauty, entertainment, fashion, or lifestyle experience is a plus.
- Strong understanding of fandoms, pop culture, and digital and social trends, with the ability to spot emerging opportunities.
- Strong organizational and project-management skills, with close attention to detail.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and confidence working with multiple stakeholders.
- Proficiency with presentation; comfort working with product
Salary Range: 77k-110k Base + Bonus 
