Marketing Project Manager at L'Oréal

Job description

THE CANDIDATE SHOULD

• Demonstrate a strong engagement and be able to manage the relationships with key senior executives
• Be able to operate in an environment where s/he will have to work with different functions and deal with different teams

THE LEADERSHIP TEAM IS LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH THE BELOW SKILLS

• Collaborative leadership
• Operational excellence
• Market & consumer insight of Sub Saharan Africa beauty market
• Ideally already has 2 years experience in Marketing Development

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES – 50% DMI

• Local product development (Mizani)
• Define the sense of international purpose and distinctive positioning of the brand (or category) to the market
• Identify need gaps based on SSA consumer and hairdresser insights, competition benchmarks
• Develop 2017 & 2018 marketing plans for local prod, with key milestones (in coordination with zone Action Plan).
• Building the 3-year development plan in line with the Mizani DMI and local needs
• Guide the entire development process (concept, formula, claims, packaging, and quantities). Liaison with DMI, R&I, Industry, Zone
• Assure that all developments respond to market needs, are high-quality, are developed on budget and produced on time
• Manage local digital content creation for Mizani SSA
• Manage SSA-specific merchandising vision & POS (Salon Expert & Salon Emotion) in coordination with DMI
• Manage budget for Product development, POS, & Digital content creation costs

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES – 50% ZONE SSA

• Local Marketing & Education tools development (Mizani & LP)
• Create Education/Technical Tools artworks* for Mizani
• Create Education/ Technical Tools artworks* for LP Color SSA
• Create Marketing tools artworks* for Mizani
• Create Marketing tools artworks* for LP Color SSA
• All Artworks are to be created by the HUB and validated with local technical resource (& DMI where necessary). But the production of these tools is still TBD

Travel requirement: 25% of time (one week per month) is to travel to other Key SSA markets –

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya , Ivory Coast