Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features. Si assicuri che tutte le informazioni della sua candidatura siano aggiornate e corrette prima di cogliere questa possibilità. Rome, Milan, or Manchester-based • Full-time • Reports to: General Manager This role requires relocation to Manchester, UK Package: Competitive base + performance bonus + equity potential Own the market. Build the business. We design effective, habit-forming hair growth solutions and the experiences that keep customers coming back. Clear routines, measurable results, products that earn a permanent spot in the bathroom. Today you'll find us in Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett, on marketplaces and DTC, backed by a loyal community of over 1 million customers. The Growth Studio brings brand, creative, performance, CRM, data, retail and marketplace into one room. Weekly working sessions. AI accelerates the testing and sharpens the targeting, so you get campaign-ready ammunition without waiting for decisions from HQ. Regional teams with real ownership. It won't be the last. Why this role, why now Italy is a €1m business today with potential to reach €5-10m in 18‐24 months. We're established in retail and marketplaces, but there's significant headroom: stronger DTC, subscription economics, creator partnerships, and proper localisation across beauty and wellness. We need someone who can run it like it's theirs. Full P&L; ownership, clear commercial mandate, real freedom to build the business properly for this market. You'll be based in Manchester, UK, embedded with the Growth Studio and leadership team. This gives you faster decisions, better support, and direct access to the specialists who'll help you win. We're looking for someone with deep knowledge of Italy (the market, the language, the culture) who's ready to relocate to scale it from here. We're open to operators who have run regions, channels, or categories in consumer brands, and to top‐tier consultants looking for their first shot at ownership. The question isn't your background.



It's whether you know this market and can show us how you'd build it. This isn't a country manager role where you execute plans from head office. You set the strategy, make the commercial calls, own the results. The Growth Studio backs you with specialists, but you run the market. Own the P&L.; Full commercial ownership: revenue, margin, cash. You set targets, allocate spend, make trade‐offs. Market positioning, channel priorities, pricing, promotional calendar, partnerships. Drive commercial momentum. Build velocity across DTC, marketplaces (Amazon, local platforms), retail (negotiate listings, promotional plans, in‐store activation), and subscription. Make the market work. Localisation: product, packaging, claims, content. Market‐specific activations, creator and influencer strategy, PR, partnerships. Weekly trading reviews, monthly forecasts, clear dashboards. Fast decisions with the Growth Studio, not through layers. Demand planning, inventory health, working capital. No surprises, no stock‐outs, no dead inventory. Hire key people when needed (marketplace lead, brand manager, retail coordinator). Partner with the Growth Studio. Weekly sessions with brand, creative, performance, CRM, data, retail and marketplace specialists. New channel or retail partnerships secured and performing. Market‐specific activations driving measurable brand lift and velocity. inventory health strong; Clear dashboards by channel and product; commercial decisions made fast. At least one structural improvement others can learn from. Commercial operator. You make trade‐offs without agonising. You don't need perfect conditions to win. Market instincts.



You don't just copy head office plans. Comfortable reviewing a weekly P&L;, negotiating with a retailer, briefing creative, analysing cohort data. You test, learn, scale. You kill what doesn't work and double down on what does. You work well with the Growth Studio to get better outcomes faster. AI‐literate. Already using AI to brief faster, analyse deeper, test smarter. You see it as leverage. You tell the truth early, keep your promises, and protect the brand while driving growth. Language: Fluent in Italian and English. P&L; ownership, channel leadership, or regional management (beauty, wellness, consumer goods, D2C brands). ~ A before/after story: market/channel/category was here, you did this, now it's there (with numbers). ~ Evidence you've launched or scaled something (new market, channel, product). ~ Proof you've made commercial calls (pricing, promo, mix, partnerships) that balanced growth and margin. ~ 0→1 or turnaround experience is a strong plus. The Growth Studio Most Country Managers are alone. Brand, creative, performance, CRM, data, e‐commerce, retail and marketplace specialists, all around the same table. Weekly working sessions. You set commercial priorities; AI accelerates testing, targeting, creative scoring, reporting. This is founder‐speed execution with the infrastructure of a scaled business. Apply CV + 300 words total answering TWO prompts: What's the single biggest opportunity to grow Hairburst in Italy, and what's your 90‐day plan to capture it? Describe a time you made a commercial call (pricing, promo, mix, partnership, channel) where you had to balance competing priorities. Diagnose what's broken and outline the three commercial levers you'd pull in the first 90 days to turn it around. Add your responses as an appendix to your CV (single document) and submit via LinkedIn, or email to Plain English. We're looking for your thinking, not AI‐generated answers. It'll be obvious in the conversation if you've just used ChatGPT.

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