Senior Products group Manager - cosmetics

Contribution

In this mission, you will drive the international strategy and product developments of body care, home & limited editions categories, representing 60% of total business.

You will bring together the aspects of being an individual contributor and those of managing and developing people & projects

Responsibilities

· Manage a team of 2-4 products managers & manage cross-functional collaboration with all departments (activation, digital, commercial, training, countries & franchisees)

· Drive products vision, strategy and full operational developments on relevant categories and appraise new products ideas to ensure brand’s uniqueness & differentiation, based on key consumer insights & business requirements.

· Develop product concepts, positioning and messaging that differentiates and reinforces its uniqueness.

· Drive product, consumers & market research, competitor analysis, product objectives & manage appropriate go-to-market plans.

· Translate product strategy into detailed requirements & briefings to all development stakeholders.

· Effectively communicates with all stakeholders and drive collaboration with laboratory, project managers, production, business units, communication, digital & retail, countries to ensure success of new launches for the entire organization.

· Drive the dynamic of the product assortment & all necessary improvements required on existing products (Reformulations, quality…).

Requirements

· 7 to 10 years’ experience in beauty area: marketing, development (Retail knowledge as a plus ) with excellent knowledge in cosmetics.

· Familiar with international environments to address complexity of developments, country needs & multiple consumer targets.

· Experience in managing people ( 2 to 3 )

· Strong experience in a dynamic product management role.

· High effectiveness in working with cross-functional teams & transverse projects.

· Understand both the business & the cosmetic industry.

· Proven success in overseeing all elements of the product development process and management.

· Personal leadership to motivate all stakeholders on new ideas, process, and challenges.

· Comfortable in uncertain environment & experience in solving crisis topics.

· Fast decision making

· Open minded to challenge status quo and improve the efficiency of the eco-system

· Fluent English.