L’Oréal strives to win over another one billion consumers around the world by innovating and creating products that meet the infinite diversity of our consumer’s needs, and we want you to help us reach this goal! We want to hire great people with unexpected ideas, the ability to challenge the status quo, and are ready to shape and disrupt the future of beauty. “Run it as you own business” is our mantra. Got what it takes? We are currently looking for a Retail Brand and Visual Merchandising Manager to be based in Oslo.
We are hiring for an exciting new position in the L’Oréal LUXE team that will be a crossing between a retail brand manager position and a visual merchandising position.
As Retail Brand and Visual Merchandising Manager you will manage the day-to-day marketing activities on LUXE key growth drivers,Kiehl’s and IT Cosmetics, and it is your responsibility to drive a long-term local retail marketing strategy and a short term execution for these brands in-line with the Nordic strategy. At the same time, you will be in charge of maintaining, developing, and implementing merchandising material for several L’Oréal Luxe brands, and support the Norwegian Commercial team in growth. It is your responsibility to map and fully understand the local consumer journey, together with driving the 360° marketing plan and strategy across our omni-channel distribution. The tasks are varied and require both strategic thinking as well as a logistic and project management.
You will work hand in hand with the Nordic Brand Leaders and the Nordic Merchandising team as well as the rest of the brand teams to execute outstanding marketing and merchandising initiatives and drive the success of these brands in Norway.
Your key job accountabilities:
- Drives and adapts the Regional Brand marketing and trade strategy to maximize local relevancy
- Translates local consumer insights into marketing and selling opportunities and drives continuous improvement of in-store consumer experience
- Defines the launch and promotional calendar across our clients, working closely with Commercial Teams, Product Marketing and Brand Leaders
- Adapts plans throughout the year depending on sales performance, lately observed trends, competitor campaigns and successes
- Drives campaign performance analysis
- Ordering and implementing the merchandising solutions for all permanent, launch and activation merchandising, answering local marketing plan needs
- Co-undertaking the conception, development and follow-up of flagship stores and perfumeries with Nordic brand and category teams
- Coordinating the conception, production, delivery, installation and follow-up of any kind of local specific materials, launch materials such as visuals and POS (point-of-sale) material + budget follow up
- In collaboration and alignment with Nordic brand teams and Category Managers, planning and executing demo stands and customer events
- Ensuring efficient coordination and flawless communication between Nordic brand marketing team, Category management teams and Retail Sales Coordinators.
Your profile:
- For you to be succesful in this job, we expect you to have a relevant educational background on Master level and +3 years of experience from a comparable job in an international marketing department.
- Great communication skills and enjoy building strong relationships to various stakeholders – external as well as internal
- Creative
- Effective, structured and hands-on approach, with close attention to details
- You are native in Norwegian and fluent in English
- Strong digital marketing skills and business acumen
- You thrive in a dynamic and complex environment
- You are self-driven, solution-orientated and wants to challenge status quo
- You are consumer behavior focused
- You know how to follow-up and follow-through on projects
- You are an analytic and critical thinker
We are looking for the Retail Brand and Visual Merchandising Manager to start as soon as possible. The employment is permanent. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so do not wait to apply! We welcome everyone to apply no matter your gender, ethnicity, physical abilities, age, religion or sexual orientation.
What’s in it for you?
We offer you great level of responsibility from the very start, challenges and opportunities including an individual career plan, coaching leadership, an extensive catalogue of trainings and e-learnings, competitive personnel benefits, modern offices, and a dynamic and international working environment with engaged and skilled colleagues. Our Nordic organization counts close to 1000 employees based in the four Nordic capitals.
Who are we?
Leading the world in beauty and pioneering the world of beauty tech; we are 86K employees across 150 countries on five continents and has a unique international portfolio of 36 brands. The Group generated sales amounting to 29.9 billion euros in 2019 corresponding to an 8,0% increase from 2018, and e-commerce growing by 52,4% accounting for 15,6% of sales. We push boundaries and move fast globally to stay ahead of the game. As market leader, we continuously deliver innovation and digital solutions that can bring beauty to all people around the world. L’Oréal truly embraces entrepreneurship and you’ll have the chance to conceptualize ideas and bring them to life in an agile way not least through continued digital innovation. Your job will be your own innovation playground.
What we do at L’Oréal always have a big impact. Because we sell 7 billion products per year. At L’Oréal, we define success as making a positive, conscious impact. We’ve been recognized as the World most ethical company in the world by Ethisphere®. In 2019, L’Oréal has been recognized as a global leader in sustainable development by the international non-profit organization CDP® in three areas: combating climate change, sustainable management of water and protecting forests, for the fourth year running. In 2019, L’Oréal was for the 3rd time ranked among the TOP 5 most gender-balanced companies in the world by Equileap®. We believe diversity fosters creativity and accelerates innovation. To ensure that our products meet the needs of every form of beauty in every culture, our team members must be as diverse and inclusive as the world itself. For us, our job is more than just a job, it is about building a better future for others and our planet.
Freedom to Go Beyond. That’s the Beauty of L’Oréal.