Global Category & Portfolio Manager
We are seeking a Global Category & Portfolio Manager to influence and inform strategic decision making within the Transitions Category & Insight Team.
The penetration of dynamic lenses among total lenses is still undeveloped versus this category potential, making it crucial to raise awareness of consumer needs and to preserve and protect the premiumness of Transitions' brand and products.
Main Responsibilities:
* Develop category assets to digest strategic insights and analysis to inform the category and product development.
* Work collaboratively with other teams to integrate their insights into the category assets (e.g. clinically proven claims from the R&D Sciences and Innovation team).
* Coordinate with different stakeholders at Transitions and at EL group level (e.g. R.&D. and GMT) the dissemination of the category strategy and assets.
* Lead key transversal CID projects – one or two per year with the CID team (CI & BI) and external partners.
* Be a key stakeholder in the development of the product brief (in collaboration with the Product Managers).
* Ensure to maintain regular contact with stakeholders during the product development phase and product launch preparation.
Main Requirements:
* Master's degree in marketing or business.
* 3 years of experience (minimum) in marketing.
* Strong set of presentation skills and proven first-hand experience with marketing assets.
* Proven ability to create marketing assets.
* Proven project management leadership experience.
* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts to a variety of audiences, confident public speaker.
* Ability to integrate and synthesize learnings and concepts into high quality assets for a wide range of audiences.
* Strong visual communication and data visualization skills.
* Creative - Show real initiative and bring new ideas. Precision and obsession with details.
* Business acumen – Result-oriented.
This is an excellent opportunity to gain significant experience working within a high impact global team of internal leadership advisers composed of consumer insights and business intelligence experts, and to make a significant impact within the wider EL group.