Julie Winchester

General Manager @ Capital Hair & Beauty

About

Experienced General manager working for both leading and small omnichannel/DTC businesses in Consumer Beauty, Professional Beauty and Pharmaceuticals. EMEA SME experience, skilled at strategy development, organisational leadership and design, financial management and complex business transformations. End to end general management; 360 brand building, DTC/ecom, Commercial, Finance, HR, Operations.

Country

United Kingdom

City

Brighton

Industry

Retail

Skill

Marketing Strategy, Pharmaceutical Industry, Marketing, Sales Effectiveness, Strategy, FMCG, Management, Consumer Products, Business Planning, Sales, Key Account Management, Product Launch, Business Strategy, Account Management, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Customer Insight, Coaching, Market Analysis, New Business Development, Trade Marketing

Experience

General Manager

Capital Hair & Beauty

2025-2 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

General Manager

Kao EMEA & Americas

2019-5 - 2025-2 · 5 yrs 10 mos

London, United Kingdom

Sales Director

Dermalogica UK

2017-1 - 2019-3 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Leatherhead

Trade Marketing Director

Coty

2016 - 2017 · 1 yr

Wimbledon

Indirect Channel Leader & Corporate Market Strategy & Planning Leader

Procter & Gamble - Salon Professional Division

2012 - 2016 · 4 yrs

Weybridge, Surrey

Managing the UKIrl sales and merchandising team and the commercial go to market strategy for the Wella Indirect channel. Working closely with indirect Customers to develop joint business plans and maximising joint value creation. Leading the Corporate Market strategy and Planning Wella team with ownership for the Direct and Indirect business, including; trade terms, pricing, sales force reward and recognition, sales force efficiency and organisational structure, sales force support, sales force capability development and the Wella digital sales force strategy.