Requirements

• 5–7 years of brand management, innovation, or NPD experience in CPG - beauty or personal care strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of an innovation pipeline or NPD initiative from concept through launch. Excellent leadership skills
• Strong financial acumen: comfortable building and defending business cases, P&L modeling, and margin analysis.
• Fluency with consumer research methodologies (qual, quant, IHUT, concept and claims testing).
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives on aggressive timelines.
• Strong written and verbal communication; able to develop and present clear strategy and recommendation to leadership.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent experience a plus.

Preferred

• Background in beauty/personal care formulation for curly, coily tight textured hair & ingredient trends.
• Experience with channel-specific innovation strategy (prestige, Curly, Coily, textured hair).
• Agency, creative, or design brief management experience.