Responsibilities

• Translate professional insights, cultural trends, and consumer behavior into differentiated product concepts, positioning, and global campaigns
• Partner with Marketing Director, shaping brand strategy and long-range innovation pipeline in close collaboration with senior brand leadership
• Own select product strategy including new launch forecasting, sizing, and business case development
• Present clear recommendations to leadership and sharpening facts to drive confident decision making
• Lead end to end new product development, building strong product briefs and data driven business cases aligned to brand, performance, and financial targets
• Own stage gates for cross functional alignment to deliver high performance, margin accretive innovation
• Partner with R&D and Supply Chain to manage development timelines and ensure on time launches meeting cost of goods benchmarks (COGs)
• Communicate project status, risks, and key decisions clearly to internal and external stakeholders
• Partner with Consumer Market Research to brief, test, and validate concepts with professional stylists, consumers and research partners
• Craft market-leading product positioning marketing concepts and compelling claims for new launches

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with a focus in professional haircare or beauty
• Strong understanding of professional and consumer needs
• Bachelors' degree or relevant experience in new product development
• Strong strategic thinking, ability to deduce conclusions from market research to develop and execute effective brand strategies
• Proficient in utilizing data to make informed choices
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and project management abilities
• High attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Financial acumen (budget management, business cases, P+Ls)
• Advanced presentation skills and storytelling for senior level audiences
• Leadership capabilities to foster a collaborative work environment

Benefits

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
• Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: diverse national and international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skills development courses, and tuition reimbursement