Market Insight Manager - CDMO (Chief Digital & Marketing Office)
As part of the CDMO team at L'Oréal UK & Ireland, the CMI (Consumer & Market Insights) team works cross-functionally with all of our divisions. Our mission is to leverage market and consumer insights to drive sustainable, ethical growth for L'Oréal and its retail clients, creating a powerful competitive advantage in the UK & Ireland.
Reporting directly to the Head of Market Insights, L'Oréal UK & Ireland, you will play a pivotal role in supporting various business functions—including marketing, sales, e-commerce, and media—to manage brand and category performance, track competitor activity, and identify strategic growth opportunities within the UK market.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
As our Market Insight Manager, your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Market & Consumer Analysis: Analyzing complex data from distributor and consumer panels (such as IRI and Nielsen) to deeply understand the UK Health & Beauty market dynamics, competitor performance, key retail landscapes, and evolving consumer trends.
- Strategic Recommending: Translating intricate data analysis into clear, actionable decision-making tools and strategic recommendations for brand teams and top management to implement across the UK.
- Ad-Hoc Business Partnering: Responding to agile business requests by providing fast, detailed, and customized analyses to solve strategic challenges for different cross-functional teams.
- Data Mastery: Building absolute expertise in UK market data. You will champion autonomy in learning new methodologies, utilizing data consolidation tools, and designing advanced dashboards with the technical backing of external partners.
- Analytics & Automation Projects: Partnering closely with IT and global data teams to lead data management and analytics projects, ensuring optimal UK market coverage and automating key business reports.
- Key Stakeholder Collaboration: Serving as the main point of contact for UK market data providers (IRI, Nielsen, etc.), managing and challenging partner research institutes, and collaborating daily with Finance, Sales Forecasting, and commercial teams to align sell-in and sell-out data.
WHO YOU ARE
- An Analytical Expert: Prior experience in market research or marketing data analysis (either in-house within a Marketing/Insights department or from a Panel Research Institute), with a strong focus on the UK market.
- A Strategic Business Partner: You possess deep expertise in business analytics, a strong understanding of UK sales and marketing practices, and a proven track record of tackling strategic brand and product challenges.
- A Collaborative Leader: You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, allowing you to influence, lead, and energize cross-functional teams with a highly collaborative and enthusiastic spirit.
- Tech & Data Savvy: You are passionate about new technologies. You have hands-on experience in Data Management (governance, deploying and leading projects) and Data Analytics (BI, dashboarding, machine learning) applied to commercial environments.
WHAT WE OFFER
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.
Our Corporate Division supports the 4000+ strong workforce in the UK & Ireland. It’s a fast-paced and dynamic environment where you’ll have visibility over our 4 Divisions (Luxe, Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, and Professional Products) and play an integral role in moving our business forward. Our founder Eugène Schueller once said that “a company is not walls and machines, it’s people, people, people”. Joining our corporate teams means joining the world leader in beauty, at the cutting edge of innovation. But above all, it means becoming part of a team of talented and inspiring people.