Description:
BROADER RESPONSIBILITIES & SKILLS:
- Support product innovation and execution across treatment and color categories in alignment with brand strategy objectives
- Drive development in partnership with program leads, adhering to established timelines while ensuring optimal quality
- Evaluate and provide recommended technical direction across product forms and categories
- Oversee communication to R&D teams across disciplines (formulation, fragrance, testing, etc.) to move innovation forward with precision and agility
- Conduct on-site development work at laboratory level, leveraging strong skillset with base and active compositional elements – translating to pilot and production levels with on-site travel to global in-house and partner facilities for approvals as needed
- Inspire new ideation and drive creativity, providing new product conceptualization in assigned categories to ignite growth
- Translate consumer, competitive and industry trends, applying knowledge to fuel new and unique La Mer innovation - reporting with presentation of recommended potential actions for La Mer
- Leverage strong understanding of luxury market to build unique, multi-faceted experiences and reasons to believe
- Attend beauty and cross-industry events, including trend/trade shows and key conferences
- Apply expert formula knowledge to build distinct, high-performance luxury textures that deliver high performance benefits
- Recommend new ingredient, testing, claims and storytelling opportunities, executing with internal and external partners across regions, with superior relevancy
- Ensure superior formula quality, setting and maintaining standards for new developments and reformulations
Key Skills:
- Strong organization skills required with self-motivated attitude required; action- and results-oriented with demonstrated ability to work both independently and in collaboration with cross-functional teams
- Conceptual thinker, able to translate diverse technical and trend inspiration into consumer-relevant storytelling and claims
- Ability to embrace change and demonstrate agility to meet evolving demands of fast-paced market and consumer shifts
- Passion and energy for new challenges, with strong demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and drive resolution of questions, concerns, and issues
- Highly flexible and responsive, with ability to effectively manage multiple, changing priorities
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences (R&D, Marketing, Creative, Education)
- Strong applied creative, business and strategic thinking skills
- Outstanding organization, follow-through, and attention to detail
- Knowledge across diverse categories – Role encompasses projects in Skincare, Makeup and specialized categories