Commercial Director – L’Oréal Professionnel, Matrix, Biolage, Redken, Kérastase – Professional Products Division (PPD)

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A Day in the Life

As the Commercial Director for our Professional Products Division (PPD) in Kyiv, Ukraine, you’ll lead the charge for some of the most iconic professional haircare brands: L’Oréal Professionnel, Matrix, Biolage, Redken, and Kérastase. Reporting to the General Manager, you’ll oversee a team of 6 direct reports, driving growth and innovation in the professional beauty market.

Here’s what your day-to-day will look like:

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute commercial strategies to achieve sales and market share growth across all brands, leveraging strategic thinking to anticipate market trends and opportunities.
• Data-Driven Insights: Use data literacy to analyze market trends, customer behaviors, and performance metrics, ensuring informed decision-making and agile strategy adjustments.
• Team Empowerment: Lead, coach, and inspire your team, focusing on team building & development to foster collaboration, innovation, and high performance.
• Customer Partnerships: Build and strengthen relationships with key accounts, using negotiation skills to secure win-win partnerships and long-term growth.
• Problem-Solving Excellence: Tackle challenges head-on with a problem-solving mindset, ensuring smooth operations and innovative solutions to drive business success.
• P&L Management: Drive profitability and ensure alignment with business objectives.

We Are Looking For

You’re a great match if you:

• Have a strong background in Strategic Thinking, Data Literacy, and Negotiation Skills.
• Are a proven leader in Team Building & Development, with a track record of inspiring and growing high-performing teams.
• Excel in Problem-Solving and building customer-centric strategies and partnerships.
• Hold a degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• Are fluent in English (at least upper intermediate).

What’s In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!).
• Real responsibility from day 1—there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal.
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender, and sexual orientation, as well as people with disabilities, are accepted, can speak up, will thrive, and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference.

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 €42 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.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.