WHAT ON EARTH IS DECIEM?

We are a collective of disrupters and doers, of creatives and scientists, with a mission to reimagine the world of beauty.

Since inception, our vertically integrated structure, including our own laboratories, manufacturing, retail stores, and brand infrastructure, have enabled us to rapidly identify opportunities and deliver quality. Home to The Ordinary, NIOD, AVESTAN, and other emerging brands, our goal is to create with purpose. We were founded on the principle of doing everything that others don’t. Because normal gets you nowhere.

We are DECIEM, The Abnormal Beauty Company.

We are growing rapidly and we’re looking for someone who shares this vision and wants to grow with us!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Director, Commercial – Global who will play a pivotal role in accelerating and operationalizing the global commercial agenda. Operating as a senior partner to the VP, Commercial – Global, this role translates strategic priorities into actionable global commercial plans, ensuring visibility, consistency, and excellence in execution across markets and channels. The role requires frequent interaction with SLT (DECIEM’s Senior Leadership Team), regional commercial leads, senior brand stakeholders, cross-functional executives, finance partners and supply chain teams—often acting as the connective tissue that unifies global commercial direction. This is an individual contributor role.

PAY RANGE

The anticipated base salary for this position is $137,000 to $170,000.

Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location.

WHAT YOU’D BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

  • Design commercial frameworks, deep-dive analyses, and formulating cross-regional processes that drive growth and enhance decision-making
  • Analyze market data and research to develop informed business plans, focusing on commercial opportunities such as expansion and business development that align with Deciem’s global brand strategy, enabling DECIEM to achieve financial targets
  • Create a comprehensive commercial excellence framework supporting VP Global Commercial’s strategy across APAC, EMEA, UK, and Americas regions
  • Elevating the New Product Development (NPD) and launch pipeline through global insight integration and the creation of a sustainable launch framework centered around best practice
  • Driving global alignment and coherence in commercial activities across regions including governance structure and enhanced ways of working with affiliate markets
  • Implement a formalized go to market playbook that encompasses pricing, promotional strategy, emerging markets, NPD and Icon campaigns, commercial innovation etc.
  • Drive enterprise-wide commercial transformation initiatives that fundamentally improve DECIEM's go-to-market capabilities
  • Foster global commercial alignment by building cross-regional relationships, sharing best practices, and guiding markets in the localized implementation of global strategies while ensuring adherence to overall standards
  • Enhance end-to-end commercial processes and systems —forecasting, NPD readiness, launch planning, post-launch analysis—ensuring greater global coherence and executional excellence
  • Compile comprehensive global analyses, such as updates on a brand's commercial strategy and performance
  • Lead global commercial workstreams/project teams supporting global commercial initiatives
  • Represent the global commercial function in leadership forums, planning meetings, and cross-functional reviews as delegated by the VP

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE

  • 8-12+ years of progressive experience in Commercial Operations, Strategy Consulting, or Business Leadership within beauty/CPG industry
  • High level of comfort operating in a fast-paced, matrixed global organization with evolving priorities
  • Exceptional written and oral communication and presentation skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clear, action-oriented insights
  • Strong project management ability with experience overseeing multiple concurrent commercial initiatives
  • Results driven leader, with the ability to bring new ideas to improve current practices and processes
  • Flexibility to work outside of regular work hours when needed due to this being a global role

WHAT YOU’LL BE GAINING BY JOINING OUR TEAM

There’s a lot of good stuff that comes along with being a DECIEM team member. Here’s a few of our favourite perks and benefits, in no particular order…

  • Generous Vacation & Personal Days, plus additional time off for volunteering in your community, voting, peaceful protesting, celebrating your birthday, and more.
  • 6 months of paid time off for new parents (inclusive of all genders).
  • Work from anywhere 4 weeks per year.
  • A hybrid work model (for applicable roles).
  • Summer Friday’s - get off at 1pm all summer long! (for applicable roles).
  • Unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Program that includes mental health care, mindfulness programs, and more.
  • Access to Development Grants & a LinkedIn Learning membership to help you keep growing and learning.
  • A generous discount on DECIEM products for you, your family, and your friends.

BUILDING GROWTH TO POWER GOOD

We are a People first company that lives by our core values to…

  • ✨ Defy Convention.
  • ✨ Make it real.
  • ✨ Play in the grey.
  • ✨ Build Bridges.
  • ✨ Be the rabbit.

These values continue to guide us in all that we do. Along the way, we’ve been honoured to win some pretty incredible awards, including a CEW Achiever Award, Best Skincare Brand at Sunday Times Style Beauty Awards, and Most Popular Sustainable Brand by The Cosmetify Index Global. We’re still blushing!

SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT

DECIEM’s objective is to build growth and do good things while prioritizing people, animals, and the Earth.

Our Sustainability strategy is focused on fighting climate change, improved waste management, responsible packaging, responsible sourcing and product lifecycle, and water conservation.

In 2020, DECIEM established the Good Fund to support both large and grassroots charities in response to global events.

CREATING A HUMAN WORLD OF BEAUTY

DECIEM is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by creating meaningful, measurable change in the lives of our team members and in the communities where we operate. Achieving equality is critical to DECIEM and our future. You can learn more about our DEI commitment in our open letter, "Belonging is the Destination, Change is the Journey".

DECIEM is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws. We are also committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted to be part of our recruitment process and require accommodation, please let us know.

WANT TO JOIN US?

Thank you for reading the whole thing! If you liked what you heard, kindly send us your resume. We really appreciate your effort in applying for this position. However, only those who have been shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. <3

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