Manager, Skincare and Haircare Food & Club, LDB Category Development

Job Title: Manager, Skincare and Haircare Food & Club, LDB Category Development

Division: L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty

Location: Hudson Yards, New York

Reports To: Director, Category Development Haircare

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business:
Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L’Oréal Dermatological Beauty, our mission is to help everyone in their quest for healthy and beautiful skin. Our division is the world leader in dermo-cosmetics by adding health to beauty.
Our brands portfolio includes Cera Ve, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Skin Ceuticals and skin better science offering a range of skincare and haircare products to respond to all expectations linked to beauty and health of the skin.

The Manager of Category Development, under the guidance of Director, Category Development Skincare is responsible for leading identified categories for the Commercial category team to leverage shopper insights and category analysis to establish strategies and enhance the shopping experience to accelerate the growth of dermatological skincare and haircare and our brands at Strategic Food and Club. The Manager will help develop and execute the dermatological skincare and Haircare category vision at Strategic Food and Club.

• Help lead the strategic vision and development of identified categories at Strategic Food and Club.
• Build and maintain true understanding of market trends and omni-channel category insights.
• Partner with Sales team in developing strategic account objectives and executional plans.
• Be the channel insights expert internally with key stakeholders in particular Marketing and Trade marketing.
• Use all category and shopper tools, such as NielsenIQ, Market
  360, Amazon Tech/Profitero, Scintilla, Numerator, Spate, Suzy panel research, Ipsos panel research, social engagement tools, Retailer loyalty systems, bespoke shopper studies (CDJ’s, Shopper Perception, UX studies, Merchandizing Studies and external market research (ex. Euromonitor, Kantar, Kline, Mintel).
• Attend high-level customer engagement meetings in partnership with sales to present LDB as category expert and thought leader.
• Lead development of holistic solutions that advance all pillars of traditional category management (assortment, category insights, on site merchandising, etc.) and work through the buying team to implement.
• Exhibit a constant sense of curiosity, be highly motivated to gain insight/understanding of the business and proactively come up with opportunities/recommendations to move the business forward.
• Consistently aspire to bring additional sophistication, improvement & efficiency to the analysis of the commercial business.
• Utilize and adapt all central category thought leadership (Quarterly Market Assessments) and research to Strategic Food customers and the Club Channel.
• Contribute to the evolution from Category Management to Category Development, focusing on long‑term growth and innovation.

• Requires a national perspective of the consumer-packaged goods and beauty industry as well as experience in the mass retail environment.
• Requires strategic thinking skills, creative and original in terms of new or improved methods, procedures or ideas regarding processes. Responsible for all assigned projects and objectives; works in collaboration with all internal departments and Field Sales.
• Performance based on meeting the organization’s objectives and schedules. Ability to handle multiple projects at one time and…