Are you a strategic commercial powerhouse with a passion for driving growth in the beauty industry? L'Oréal's Professional Products Division (PPD) is seeking an exceptional National Account Manager to spearhead our in-store and online execution, unlock exciting new distribution opportunities, and forge powerful partnerships with key luxury retailers like Sephora. If you're ready to make a significant impact, grow our PPD sales, and establish L'Oréal as the go-to supplier, this is your chance to shine!

A DAY IN THE LIFE

No two days are exactly alike as a National Account Manager for L'Oréal's Professional Products Division, but every single one is packed with strategic thinking, dynamic collaboration, and the thrill of driving significant business growth!

Your day might kick off by reviewing performance dashboards, delving into the latest sales data, and analysing KPIs for your key accounts like Sephora. You'll use these insights to refine your strategy, anticipate budget needs, and identify new opportunities to elevate L'Oréal's PPD brands.

Mid-morning could see you in a crucial virtual meeting, negotiating joint business plans with a leading luxury retailer. This isn't just about sales; it's about building strong, lasting relationships, aligning on ambitious goals, and ensuring L'Oréal is their first-choice partner for professional haircare. You'll champion our brands, leveraging your commercial acumen to secure prime discoverability and visibility for our products, both in-store and online.

Later, you might collaborate with our internal Marketing and Digital teams, brainstorming innovative omni-channel activation plans. You'll work closely with content teams to ensure our products are showcased beautifully, bringing the "professional difference" to life through engaging videos, consumer reviews, and compelling imagery. This often involves coaching internal colleagues, sharing best practices, and ensuring our online/offline strategy is seamlessly integrated across the business.

Your afternoon could involve diving into a new account opportunity, mapping out a strategy to establish L'Oréal as a best-in-class supplier and setting PPD up for sustainable long-term growth. You'll work across various functions – from supply chain to legal – ensuring every aspect of your launch plans for new luxury retailers is meticulously executed.

Ultimately, your day revolves around driving turnover, activating sell-out plans, and using your creativity to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes for L'Oréal and our esteemed partners. You'll be the expert, the collaborator, and the driving force ensuring our professional haircare brands achieve unparalleled success in a competitive market.

WHO YOU ARE

• You have:
  • A proven ability to network quickly, identify relevant stakeholders, and keep them informed in a timely manner.
  • Strong analytical skills, enabling you to draw accurate conclusions from data and communicate key messages succinctly.
  • Robust P&L understanding and a track record of delivering profitable, sustainable growth.
  • Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with a demonstrated ability to build effective relationships with complex senior leadership teams.
  • Previous experience working directly with Senior Leadership teams.
  • Experience with both "bricks and clicks" retailers, with luxury store experience being a bonus.
  • Demonstrable experience working effectively within a complex, matrix organization.
• You show:
  • Ambition: You think and dream big, are self-driven, proactive, and thrive on achieving exceptional performance, seeing problems as challenges.
  • Judgement: You skillfully balance operational and strategic thinking, challenge the status quo, and manage confrontation. You efficiently navigate complexity and ambiguity, making sustainable, future-oriented decisions.
  • Resilience: You approach your work with purpose and an ownership mindset, manage your energy effectively, and maintain positivity. You persist through obstacles, bouncing back with determination, while also recognizing and respecting limits.
  • Empathy: You excel at cooperation and networking, building genuine and trusting relationships with diverse individuals. You are sensitive to beauty and emotions, supportive of others, and always benevolent, respecting others' feelings and motives.
  • Learning Agility: You are a self-motivated learner, self-aware, and openly curious. You're willing to experiment, learn from mistakes, and step out of your comfort zone, actively supporting a learning culture.

Our industry-leading award-winning benefits package shows how much we value our people. We know they're at the heart of L'Oréal's success, so we offer a fair and competitive package to help you thrive.

Enjoy perks like money-saving offers, free mortgage advice, share options and an enhanced pension plan. Love our brands? You'll get up to 60% off iconic names like YSL, CeraVe, Armani, Kiehl's and Garnier! Because health matters, we offer private medical and dental insurance, discounted gym memberships, and onsite mental health support. We also provide enhanced family leave for all and up to 4 weeks of paid fertility leave, so you can prioritise what matters most.

Learning is in our DNA at L'Oréal. We'll help you master your role, build skills, and access top-notch leadership programs and monthly expert talks. And there's lots more too!

WHO WE ARE

L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €29 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty; where diversity and purpose come together to create meaningful impact. 
 
In the Professional Products Division, our mission is to be the partner of choice for the professional hair industry. Inspiring stylists and creating desirability amongst consumers with meaningful brands. We’re the founding Division for the L’Oréal group, with a rich history over 110 years. The 8-brand portfolio includes the likes of L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken and Matrix and the division is universally known for exclusively supplying salons and other professional customers with the most advanced technologies in hair and beauty products. 
 

HOW WE RECRUIT

At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.