Head of  Business Intelligence

Position in the organization:

In L’Oréal’s Dermatological Beauty division, within the Consumer & Market Intelligence team, reporting to the Data and Market Insights director.

Key responsibilities and mission :

The Head of Market & Business Intelligence BIM will be responsible for providing strong business intelligence to support LDB MANCOM decisions and strategies across brands and categories. 

To enable this, the missions are :

- Listen and interact with senior business stakeholders (LDB Mancom and N-1)

- Develop and execute a comprehensive business intelligence roadmap aligned with LDB’s business goals and objectives.

1. DELIVER with EXCELLENCE : develop complex and deep ad-hoc analysis and communicate the results through impactful outputs.

• Create from scratch new automated tool to help decision making (in partnership with external agencies),
• Develop, execute and promote a range of on-going business intelligence analysis, e.g. deep diving category dynamics, competitive landscape and local emerging brand,
• Build a brief with senior stakeholders, execute & manage agencies to deliver high quality and strategic oriented Ad hoc requests,
• Outstanding analytical skills to read the data and leverage the tools to identify winning strategy and growth opportunity for LDB. Act like a daily advisor to Mancom when it comes to market & business opportunities : support the Data & Market insights director and senior stakeholders with business insights and strategical recommendations for the Mancom.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including CMI from other divisions, marketing, finance, to understand their business needs in order to provide relevant insights and analytics support,
• Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, translating business requirements into data-driven solutions,
• Support the business teams in all their questions and needs on a daily basis. 

Required profil  : 

• Preferably at least 5 years of experience in consultancy firms such as BCG, McKinsey, Bain. This profile has a perfect fit for several reasons : agility, strategic thinking, analytical skills, client management skills, proficiency in xls and power point, storytelling skills.
• However we are also open to consider CMI - Business Intelligence expertise, in which case a higher level of experience is required.
• Strong and articulated interest of the Beauty market and LDB 
• Fluent French and English. 

Professional skills:

• Demonstrate agility in manipulating and curating huge amount of information, 
• Agile to translate Information into Insights, 
• Agile in making complexity simple, 
• Agile with data manipulation,
• Very good story telling and visualization skills : with the ability to create clear and impactfull outputs,
• Excellent communication skills,
• Strategic mindset.
• Stakeholders management

Soft skills : 

• Great rigor and curiosity, 
• Teamwork, 
• Adaptability,
• Autonomy,
• Good interpersonal skills and organization, 
• Resilient, 
• Proactive,
• Open-minded, contributor to the agenda of the team will be essential for success.

Computer skills: 

1. Advanced Excel. 
2. Advanced Power Point: Agility in building Storytelling and impactful slides : straight to the point, delivering key messages with adapted visuals.
3. No specific software competencies required (no computer programming needed).

Important to note: this position will have managerial responsibilities with one or 2 talents reporting to him/her.