Overview
Join us to create the beauty that moves the world! As a global leader and Beauty-Tech pioneer, we are looking for passionate talents who want to actively shape our success story. In a constantly changing world, we identify the latest trends, act data-driven, and develop innovations that merge beauty with technology. Over 86.000 employees in over 150 markets commit themselves every day to turn our vision of a sustainable and forward-looking beauty industry into reality. At L’Oréal, we live a culture of learning, personal development, and entrepreneurship. We offer our employees numerous opportunities to expand their skills, take responsibility, actively shape their careers, and thus have a positive impact. With our long history of innovation and our commitment to sustainability issues, we set standards for responsible entrepreneurship. Are you ready to shape the beauty world of tomorrow? Then become part of our team.
The Role
As a Category Manager (m/f/d) you are the preferred category partner for our key clients and drive category growth for our partner & brands.
Your Tasks
* Cultivate Strong Retailer Relationships: Build robust relationships with all relevant stakeholders, conduct regular meetings to review performance, share shopper insights, and provide accountability for distribution and performance analysis.
* Tailor Category Growth Strategies: Cascade the overall category growth strategy to specific key retailers and develop customized strategies and tactics to maximize their unique category growth opportunities.
* Enhance Category Presence & Shopper Experience: Create compelling category planogram visions, including CPD brand visions, and lead co-creation projects with retail partners to elevate the shopper experience.
* Leverage Shopper Insights: Support and conduct in-depth shopper studies in collaboration with CMI (Consumer & Market Insights) to gain valuable consumer understanding.
* Drive Internal Alignment & Risk Management: Ensure aligned communication strategies through regular exchanges with the retailer's sales team and proactively inform the organization about CPD growth opportunities and potential business risks based on data analysis and customer feedback.
Your Profile
* Completed university degree
* Professional experience, especially in Category Management, Key Account Management, Marketing, or similar fields
* Very good knowledge of Excel and Nielsen, ECR Category Manager certification is an advantage.
* Structured and analytical way of working, strong communication skills, assertiveness, and negotiation skills, enthusiasm, creativity, and commitment.
* Very good written and spoken English and French or German skills.
Our Offer
* A permanent employment contract in a crisis-resistant, growing market with a comprehensive range of social benefits.
* An attractive and competitive remuneration package as well as a voluntary profit-sharing scheme.
* Individual personal and professional development, a strong learning curve, strong team spirit and an open, cooperative corporate culture.
* Diverse national and international development perspectives.
Diversity & Inclusion
L'Oréal is an employer that is committed to equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, origin, disability, gender identity or other protected characteristics. Diversity & Inclusion is very important to us and is fully lived.
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