L'Oréal, the world leader in cosmetics, is synonymous with beauty, innovation and scientific excellence in more than 130 countries. As the leader in the beauty industry, our success is a direct result of our unequaled employees. L'Oréal is always looking for talented and ambitious minds to help build our beauty into something even better. Leadership also means innovation and quality. We offer the most technologically advanced products to our customers and a portfolio of brands in every product category. L'Oréal USA fully encompasses all aspects of beauty for everyone, everywhere.
As the Project Performance Manager for Make Up, you'll be responsible for the following with respect to projects/programs led from the US for Brands such as L'Oreal Paris, Maybelline and essie:
- Strategic inputs to build project ambition and product experience discovery and performance evaluation plans
- Integrate cross functional programs to deliver strong performance insights
- Lead communication of key project performance results
Key job responsibilities: - To be a strategic partner to Make Up Metier on a strategic platform to shape strategy and project ambition
- To define and lead evaluation plan at an international level and contribute to evaluation architecture work
- To partner project leaders to define project briefs, product performance pyramids, consumer targets and key competition for key technology projects
- To propose robust evaluation plan to provide strong body of evidence for product performance in collaboration with labs, innovation direction/consumer market insights, cross functional PPE expertise teams and worldwide Category Performance Leader (CPL)/Skin Project Performance Manager (PPM) network
- To maximize technology potential by building a worldwide evaluation plan working closely with Category Performance Leader (CPL)/ Make up PPM network
- To synthesize and communicate key project performance as representative for Product Performance Evaluation (PPE) at top management and international meetings
- To continuously build make up category/product knowledge
Experience: - Bachelors with 10 years of relevant working experience or Masters with 8 years of relevant working experience in a strategic function
- Strong collaborator and team builder with a cross-discipline team
- Experience working in an international, multi-cultural environment
- Deliver clear insights through analyzing multiple/complex data sets
Key skills and Qualifications: - Preferred area of study include Psychology, Social Sciences, Business, Marketing, Communications
- Excellent interpersonal, communication (written/oral) and organizational skills
- Dynamic personality
- Strong diplomacy, influencing and leadership skills
- An understanding of how to excite and motivate across multi-discipline, mostly importantly, with labs
- Strong communication and analytical skills a must
- Ability to create aesthetic & succinct powerpoint presentations summarizing project learnings, status and next steps
- Knowledge of innovation development, market and consumer insights, sensory & instrumental protocols
- Knowledge and passion in beauty, cosmetic, skincare an advantage
- Must be proficient in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Experience in social media analytics, design thinking, visual and motion communication
- The ability to think global is essential
- Must be legally eligible to work in the US on an on-going basis
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
