Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy & Development
Drive high-impact commercial strategies, work closely with senior leadership, and turn customer insights into profitable growth across a growing consumer service business.
About Emax Beauté
Emax Beauté operates a growing portfolio of beauty salons, slimming centres and aesthetic clinics. We are looking for a commercially driven Senior Manager, Commercial Strategy & Development to identify growth opportunities, develop profitable commercial strategies and turn them into results across our outlets.
This is a hands-on commercial role for someone who enjoys combining customer insight, data, financial analysis and business execution. You will work closely with the General Manager and senior leadership, with exposure to the CEO on strategic decisions.
What You’ll Do
Commercial Strategy & Business Growth
Identify commercial opportunities through customer insights, transaction data, market trends and outlet performance.
Develop commercial plans covering target customers, offers, pricing, acquisition channels, sales conversion and retention.
Evaluate business opportunities and recommend strategies that improve revenue and profitability.
Offer & Pricing Strategy
Develop and optimise service packages, entry offers, bundles, payment structures and repeat-purchase propositions.
Evaluate pricing, customer value, conversion, margins and operational requirements before recommending changes.
Partner with Marketing, Sales, CRM, Finance, Operations and clinical teams to bring new propositions to market.
Commercial & Financial Analysis
Build and maintain practical commercial models covering customer acquisition cost, conversion, discounts, commissions, fulfilment costs, refunds and repeat purchases.
Analyse customer cohorts, contribution, payback and customer lifetime value.
Work with Finance to validate profitability, cash requirements and commercial assumptions.
Pilot & Implementation
Turn commercial recommendations into structured pilots with clear objectives, budgets, timelines and success measures.
Coordinate with relevant department heads on campaign preparation, sales execution, training and operational readiness.
Review pilot performance and recommend whether to scale, improve or discontinue initiatives.
Customer Retention & Growth
Analyse customer behaviour by cohort, offer and acquisition source.
Develop strategies to increase repeat purchases, customer retention and reactivation.
Identify opportunities to improve the customer journey from first purchase through repeat visits and long-term engagement.
Commercial Capability & Expansion
Develop practical tools, models and decision-making frameworks that can be used across the business.
Assess whether successful initiatives can be replicated across multiple outlets.
Consider demand, outlet capacity, customer economics and cash requirements when evaluating expansion opportunities.
Coach management teams and stakeholders to make stronger commercial decisions.
What We’re Looking For
8+ years of relevant experience in commercial strategy, business management, growth, revenue management or a related field.
Proven track record of personally leading and implementing commercial initiatives with measurable results.
Experience developing or improving pricing strategies, customer offers, purchase journeys or revenue models.
Strong experience in consumer-facing businesses, preferably involving multiple locations, appointment-based services, memberships, packages or recurring customer relationships.
Strong financial and analytical skills, with hands-on experience using Excel or Google Sheets to build commercial models and analyse business performance.
Able to understand and explain key commercial metrics such as customer acquisition cost, conversion, contribution, payback, customer lifetime value and repeat purchase rates.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work through department heads and drive execution at outlet level.
Commercially minded with sound judgment when balancing customer value, profitability, service quality and operational capacity.
Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with senior management as well as outlet teams.
Good command of English, both written and spoken.
Experience in beauty, aesthetics, slimming, wellness or fitness is an advantage. Candidates from other consumer service industries with strong commercial results are also encouraged to apply.
A degree or professional qualification in Business, Finance, Economics, Marketing or a related field is an advantage.
Your First 90 Days
First 30 Days – Understand & Diagnose
Understand the selected brand, customer journey and outlet economics.
Establish the commercial baseline and identify key growth constraints.
Agree on priority opportunities with the General Manager and Finance.
Days 31–60 – Develop & Pilot
Develop and compare commercial strategies and alternatives.
Recommend a pilot with clear objectives and success criteria.
Coordinate approvals, tracking, team preparation and implementation.
Days 61–90 – Review & Scale
Analyse initial results against assumptions and identify key learnings.
Recommend whether to scale, adjust or discontinue the initiative.
Establish practical models and routines for ongoing tracking of customer cohorts, repeat purchases and commercial performance.
How Success Will Be Measured
Success in this role will be measured through:
Improved commercial contribution and profitability.
Better customer conversion and repeat-purchase performance.
Successful implementation of commercial initiatives at outlet level.
Proven ability to replicate successful initiatives across multiple outlets.
Stronger commercial decision-making and analytical capability within the management team.
Why Join Us?
Work directly with senior leadership on high-impact commercial initiatives.
Opportunity to influence strategy across a growing portfolio of consumer service businesses.
Take ownership from customer insight and analysis through to implementation and results.
Gain broad exposure across Marketing, Sales, CRM, Finance, Operations and clinical functions.
Make a visible impact on how our customers discover, purchase and continue engaging with our services.
- Department
- OPERATION - BD & PM
- Location
- ELIT HQ
- Employment type
- Full-time