Job Title: Director – Finance, A&P HQ Media, Digital & Marketing
Division: PPD
Location: Hudson Yards, NY
Report to: AVP, A&P HQ Finance
Who We Are:
For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.
At L’Oréal Professional Products, our mission is to support hairdressers and develop the hair industry sustainably and lead the digital transformation of our industry with a customer-centric approach. Our brands portfolio includes L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, Matrix, Biolage, Pureology, Mizani, L’Oreal Technique and Shu Uemura.
What You Will Do:
As a Finance Director within L'Oréal's Professional Products Division (PPD), you will play a crucial role in the financial planning, reporting, and analysis across all brands within the portfolio. This high-visibility leadership role is dedicated to optimizing Media, Digital & Traditional Marketing investments, requiring strong collaboration with various internal teams and stakeholders. Acting as the primary financial partner for the VP’s of Marketing/Digital and the PPD CDMO, you will ensure there is strong financial collaboration. You will lead a team who each manage the day-to-day operations across all PPD brands for digital, media and marketing. The team will also have a transversal focus overseeing Total A&P spend Redken, Pureology, Matrix, Biolage & Pulp Riot, and will be a key partner to the brand controller and total business on multiple different projects.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage Total Consumer Engagement & Shopper Experience Budgets total $250M across all 10 PPD Brands, identifying risks and opportunities through proactive budget management and regular business partner meetings.
- Serve as a key business partner to PPD CDMO, PPD Digital Team & Brand VP’s of Marketing/Digital and collaborate effectively with brand controllers to optimize spend.
- Lead NEO Implementation amongst all Digital and Marketing Teams, acting as a catalyst for the new ways of working
- Align with VP’s of Marketing and Brand Controllers on fuel budgets across all PPD brands, encompassing Media, Brand Engagement, DDX, Ecomm & traditional Marketing expenses.
- Oversee total Brand A&P Consolidation for Redken, Pureology, Matrix, Biolage & Pulp Riot and ensure alignment with team and Brand controller on all A&P Investments.
- Accountability for the successful implementation of critical projects focused on optimizing divisional spending and strategic investment. This includes: BetIQ ROI analysis, marketing & influencer investment optimization, and implementation of Marketing / Digital Dashboards
- Directly manage the PPD centralized digital marketing (CDMO) budgets and amortization analysis across the brands. Ensure strong collaboration with the brand controllers regarding CAPEX investments.
- Consolidate Total Digital & Marketing investments for all PPD brands, providing analysis and presenting recommendations to management.
- Preferred experience leading a team and nurturing young talent, through coaching and development, fostering professional growth and development to continuously improve ways of working
- Ensure accurate expense classification according to L'Oréal Finance Norms. Track financial performance of strategic projects against the business plan.
Required Qualifications:
- Experience: 7-10 years of experience in finance or accounting. Prior experience within A&P Investments is preferred.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Accounting.
- Skills:
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Organizational skills to meet several deadlines
- Demonstrated business acumen and leadership capabilities.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); expert-level Excel skills required. Experience with Power BI and data visualization dashboards a plus.
Salary range: $138K-$200K