Senior Manager, Product Development - Hair

Location: Kenilworth

Kenilworth, New Jersey ;
New York, New York

At Revlon, we create beauty innovations for everyone that inspire confidence and ignite joy every day.

Breaking beauty boundaries is in our company’s DNA. Since its game-changing launch of the first opaque nail enamel in 1932 (and later, the first long-wear foundation), Revlon has provided consumers with high-quality product innovation, performance, and sophisticated glamour. Elizabeth Arden made waves as a woman-led beauty company in the 1920s. In 1931, Almay became the original hypoallergenic, fragrance-free beauty brand.

Today, Revlon resiliently continues its legacy as a leading global beauty company. Our diverse portfolio—which consists of some of the world’s most iconic brands and product offerings in color cosmetics, skincare, hair color & care, personal care, and fragrances—is sold around the world through prestige, professional, mass, and direct-to-consumer retail channels. These brands include Revlon, Revlon Professional, Elizabeth Arden, Almay, American Crew, CND, Cutex, Mitchum, Sinful Colors, Creme of Nature, Christina Aguilera, John Varvatos, Juicy Couture, Ed Hardy and more.

We honor our heritage, embrace change, and applaud diversity. We champion our employees and celebrate our consumers.

We are Revlon, together, transforming beauty.

This role is a Hybrid Role: Employees are expected to work from our New York or New Jersey office 3 days per week and may work remotely the remaining days.

At Revlon, Hair is a core part of our innovation, heritage and future growth. Our portfolio serves highly diverse consumers, hair types, needs and channels, from mass-market hair color and textured hair care to professional beauty and men's grooming. Iconic brands including Revlon Color Silk, Creme of Nature, Revlon Professional and American Crew give us a distinctive platform to translate consumer insight, science and technology into meaningful innovation.

Position

Summary

The Senior Manager, Product Development – Hair will play a key part in identifying emerging trends, unmet consumer needs and breakthrough innovation opportunities across Hair, bringing strong R&D insights and technical perspectives to help inform and shape the long-term innovation pipeline in close partnership with the R&D Category Leader and Marketing.

The role combines upstream innovation thinking with strong product-development judgment, ensuring that concepts are consumer-relevant, technically credible, commercially meaningful and executable from early opportunity definition through launch.

Major Responsibilities Strategic Trend and Innovation Leadership

• Identify and interpret emerging consumer, cultural, scientific, technology, format and competitive trends relevant to the future of Hair.
• Translate macro shifts, digital and social signals, market intelligence and consumer tensions into actionable opportunity spaces for Revlon Hair brands.
• Identify potential breakthrough innovation and provide recommendations.
• Bring an external perspective through active engagement with suppliers, start-ups, and TPMs.

Long-Term Pipeline and Portfolio Contribution

• Bring R&D insights, and emerging technological trends to help inform and shape the long-term Hair innovation pipeline.
• Contribute to the development of a balanced portfolio across near-term business opportunities, renovation, new product developments, and longer-term strategic platforms.

Concept and Product Development Leadership

• Co-create differentiated, insight-led product concepts with Marketing and R&D partners.
• Translate consumer and brand opportunities into clear product design briefs, target product profiles, technical KPIs and success criteria.
• Lead product development activities for assigned projects from ideation through…