Category Leader - Skin @ L'Oreal, R&I, Mumbai

Your Mission:

Category Leader, Consumer & Evaluation Intelligence

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'Oréal'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'Oréal 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.
  

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