Job Description

L'Oreal is a global leader in beauty, driven by science and deep consumer understanding. We seek a strategic leader to connect our Researchers, cutting-edge scientific evaluation, and profound consumer insights to shape the future of a key product category.

Your Mission:

As the Category Leader, Consumer & Evaluation Intelligence, you will be the critical bridge, translating complex scientific evaluation data into compelling consumer narratives and leveraging consumer understanding to inspire breakthrough innovations. You will champion consumer-centricity across Research & Innovation, Marketing, and Product Development, ensuring our products are scientifically superior and deeply resonate with consumer needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Category Leadership: Develop and execute a vision for your assigned category, identifying growth drivers and innovation opportunities. Synthesize market trends, competitive intelligence, and L'Oreal's scientific capabilities to drive strategic planning. Cross-Functional Integration: Act as the primary interface between Consumer Insights, Evaluation Intelligence, and key "Metiers" (R&I, Marketing, Product Development). Drive collaboration to embed consumer understanding across the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch. Champion the "voice of the consumer" to influence strategic decisions and foster a consumer-centric culture. Translating Science to Consumer: Collaborate with Evaluation teams to interpret complex scientific and performance data. Transform technical findings into clear, compelling, and consumer-relevant insights and communication messages. Ensure all product claims are rigorously substantiated by scientific evaluation and resonate with consumer desires. Deep Consumer Understanding: Lead primary and secondary market research to uncover consumer motivations, behaviors, and unmet needs. Develop consumer segmentation and profiling to enable targeted product and marketing strategies. Innovation & Future-Proofing: Catalyze breakthrough innovation by combining consumer insights and scientific evaluation for novel product concepts. Contribute to the long-term innovation pipeline, ensuring L'Oreal remains a pioneer in beauty.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's degree (Master's preferred) in Marketing, Business, Science, or related field. Experience: 8-10+ years in Category Management, Product Marketing, Consumer Insights, or R&D, ideally in Beauty, FMCG, or Pharma. Proven experience at the intersection of consumer insights and scientific/technical evaluation. Track record of translating complex data into actionable strategies that drive innovation and growth. Extensive cross-functional collaboration experience (R&D, Marketing). Core Competencies: Exceptional strategic and analytical acumen, outstanding communication and influencing skills, highly collaborative, curious, proactive, and strong industry knowledge.

L'Oreal Competencies:

Acts with sensitivity to the Metier, Innovates, Connects with the brand, Engages and develops teams, Achieves results with integrity, Manages complexity, Demonstrates entrepreneurship.