Category Leader - Skin @ L'Oreal, R&I, Mumbai L'Oral

8.0 - 12.0 years

0 Lacs

maharashtra

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As a global leader in beauty, driven by science and deep consumer understanding, L'Oral is seeking a strategic leader like you to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of a key product category. In the role of Category Leader, Consumer & Evaluation Intelligence, your mission will be to serve as the critical bridge between Researchers, scientific evaluation data, and consumer insights. By translating complex scientific data into compelling consumer narratives and leveraging consumer understanding, you will inspire breakthrough innovations that resonate deeply with consumer needs. Your key responsibilities will include developing and executing a vision for the assigned category, identifying growth drivers and innovation opportunities. You will synthesize market trends, competitive intelligence, and L'Oral"s scientific capabilities to drive strategic planning. Acting as the primary interface between Consumer Insights, Evaluation Intelligence, and key "Metiers" such as Research & Innovation, Marketing, and Product Development, you will drive collaboration to embed consumer understanding across the product lifecycle. Your role will also involve championing the "voice of the consumer" to influence strategic decisions and foster a consumer-centric culture. Collaborating with Evaluation teams, you will interpret complex scientific and performance data to transform technical findings into clear, compelling, and consumer-relevant insights and communication messages. Ensuring that all product claims are rigorously substantiated by scientific evaluation and resonate with consumer desires will be a key aspect of your role. Leading primary and secondary market research to uncover consumer motivations, behaviors, and unmet needs, you will develop consumer segmentation and profiling to enable targeted product and marketing strategies. In terms of innovation and future-proofing, you will catalyze breakthrough innovation by combining consumer insights and scientific evaluation for novel product concepts. You will also contribute to the long-term innovation pipeline, ensuring that L'Oral remains a pioneer in beauty. To be successful in this role, you should have a Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Marketing, Business, Science, or a related field, along with 8-10+ years of experience in Category Management, Product Marketing, Consumer Insights, or R&D, ideally in the Beauty, FMCG, or Pharma industry. You should have a proven track record of translating complex data into actionable strategies that drive innovation and growth. Extensive cross-functional collaboration experience, exceptional strategic and analytical acumen, outstanding communication and influencing skills, curiosity, proactiveness, and strong industry knowledge are some of the core competencies required for this role. L'Oral Competencies that are critical for success include acting with sensitivity to the Mtier, innovating, connecting with the brand, engaging and developing teams, achieving results with integrity, managing complexity, and demonstrating entrepreneurship.,

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