Sr. Trend Designer- Essential and Beauty

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $

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Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

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A team within our Essentials & Beauty business leading trend forecasting and driving bold strategies across categories and the enterprise. We seek diverse skill sets and experiences to create compelling and differentiated strategies that shape future business, brand, and product vision, connect to enterprise strategic initiatives, and uncover new opportunities for long-term growth.

As a Sr. Trend Designer in Essentials & Beauty, you will lead the identification, synthesis, and activation of emerging cultural, consumer, and category trends to inform product development, merchandising strategy, and enterprise decision-making. You will translate trend intelligence into actionable insights and strategic opportunities that drive growth, differentiation, and innovation across a broad portfolio of brands and categories.

By Connecting Cultural Shifts, Consumer Behaviors, And Emerging Market Dynamics, You Will Uncover Future Opportunities And Inspire New Ways Of Meeting Consumer Needs—helping The Business Anticipate What Comes Next, Not Just Respond To What Exists Today. This Will Be Accomplished Through

• Leverage multiple sources of intelligence to identify and track emerging trends, cultural shifts, and evolving consumer behaviors across categories and competitive landscapes.
• Lead deep-dive category analyses and deliver actionable insights and trend implications for merchants, product development, brand, and enterprise partners.
• Monitor innovation, emerging markets, consumer behaviors, and macro cultural shifts to identify future opportunities, inform strategic priorities, and drive business growth.

• Synthesize diverse inputs to identify macro trend landscape and emerging opportunity spaces, and future areas of consumer relevance in close partnership with cross-category trend teams.
• Translate macro aesthetics and trends into pyramid-specific guidance across aesthetics, color and sensorial (fragrance, flavors, textures, and other sensorial expressions) to influence a broad portfolio of brands and categories.
• Develop brand and category-specific seasonal and evergreen trend concepts that inform owned brands, product development, assortment activation and cross-category and future innovation opportunities.
• Elevate trend concepts through exceptional visual design and refined aesthetic sensibility, crafting cohesive, inspiring narratives and expressions across color, form, imagery, materials, and storytelling that guide execution across brands and categories.
• Create visually compelling trend reports, mood boards, presentations, and strategic narratives that simplify complex insights and inspire action across all levels of the organization.

• Build trusted relationships and collaborate with partners across the enterprise while influencing through your expertise in trend forecasting, consumer insights, and cultural intelligence.
• Coordinate effectively with partners across trend teams, product categories, brands, and merchandising to maximize impact of work
• Influence leadership discussions by translating emerging…