Senior Product Manager – PPD

Overview

As Senior Product Manager, you own a brand portfolio within L’Oréal’s Professional Products Division, driving strategy, activation, and local execution to fuel growth. You collaborate with local and international teams to nourish brand strategy and deliver 360 activations, while onboarding cross-functional partners to meet objectives. You balance creativity with business focus, manage launches and ROI analysis, and champion a data-driven, consumer-first approach in a fast-paced environment.

Pay / Benefits

• industry-leading benefits package
• money-saving offers
• free mortgage advice
• share options
• enhanced pension plan
• private medical and dental insurance

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute brand plans and strategies using market, consumer, and competitor insights to engage B2C and B2B audiences
• Lead local launches and activations from forecasting to asset localization and sell-out activations
• Define media strategy with agencies to plan and execute brand communications
• Collaborate with commercial activation teams to drive growth and recruit new customers with category understanding
• Lead digital transformation initiatives to build seamless B2B online activation with LPS and education teams
• Coordinate with multi-channel PPD stakeholders across UK&I and brand teams (Comms, Education, Commercial, Digital, Finance)
• Forecast launches sizing, manage A&P, build launch P&L with Finance, monitor ROI/PA of activations
• Develop a marketing education strategy to amplify advocacy and drive sell-in/sell-out in professional channels
• Represent local market insights to international teams and defend local interests

Key requirements

• Strong understanding of consumer trends, shopper psychology, and retail journey
• Strong analytical and data-first approach
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Passion for beauty, marketing trends and innovation
• Proven commercial sensitivity and business acumen
• Strong multi-tasking and proactive mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment under pressure
• Strong relationship-building and networking skills
• Highly organized and disciplined, able to manage workloads under pressure
• Entrepreneurial spirit and initiative
• Creative thinking and problem-solving mindset
• Proven agility and adaptability to change
• Experience presenting to senior stakeholders
• Ability to coach and develop others

• communication
• stakeholder management
• multitasking
• Microsoft Excel
• PowerPoint
• data analytics

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