Director, Global Retail Excellence, Aveeno Category & Shopper Strategy (Finance)

Description

Kenvue, is currently recruiting for:

Director, Global Retail Excellence, Aveeno Category & Shopper Strategy
This position reports into the Sr Director, Global Retail Excellence and is based out of Summit NJ.

Who we are

At Kenvue , we believe there is extraordinary power in everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and propelled forward by science, our iconic brands-including NEUTROGENA ® , AVEENO ® , TYLENOL ® , LISTERINE ® , JOHNSON'S ® and BAND-AID ® -are category leaders trusted by millions of consumers who use our products to improve their daily lives. Our employees share a digital-first mindset, an approach to innovation grounded in deep human insights, and a commitment to continually earning a place for our products in consumers' hearts and homes. Join us in shaping our future-and yours. Watch us here .

Role reports to: Head of Global Retail Excellence SelfCare

Location: Kenvue is currently in the process of moving its Global Headquarters from Skillman, NJ to Summit, NJ. This role is based in Summit, NJ but there may be a period of time during the transition that you must report to Skillman, NJ

Travel: 10-25%

Pay: Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $144,000 to $215,000. This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

What will you do

The Director, Global Retail Excellence, Aveeno Category & Shopper Strategy is an influential global leader within the brand development and retail excellence teams. This individual will employ advanced analytics and insights to develop, shape and deploy global category leadership, strategic retail guidelines, channel and customer growth strategies, and global retail execution & shopper toolkits.

They will provide critical inputs to design the Global Skin Care Category & Shopper Insights & Analytics roadmap with focus on optimizing global to local data management, shopper insight delivery and building category leading, consistent brand execution framework fit for use across multiple regions. The Director is responsible for collaborating across multiple stakeholder groups globally, regionally, and locally to ensure the global category and brand solutions are scalable and deliver a clear vision that will drive strategic growth for the organization and our retail partners. When required, this individual will support strategic category and retail initiatives across multiple categories, in partnership with the VP and segment Senior Director, with a focus on developing elevated thought leadership and growth opportunities for Kenvue.

Key Responsibilities

Capability Leadership Role

• Leads Global Category Visioning and Solutions for Global Skin Health & Beauty and Aveeno Brand Development Teams including the development of the global category and brand leadership stories for deployment across key markets and channels.
• Leverages consumer, customer, and shopper insights with a deep understanding of brand priorities to develop category solutions and multi-brand activation opportunities that can deployed across multiple markets to deliver long-term growth ambition.
• Partners with retail excellence capability leads across priority markets on deployment of category vision, and transcreation of category development and brand growth strategies for local market and retailer activation.
• Works with Senior Director Global Retail Excellence to activate capability roadmap and develop capability playbook for Category Visioning and Category Solutions.

Cross -Segment / Consumer Leadership Role

• Leads work on global category solutions and activation across full Kenvue Brand Portfolio for key consumer target (i.e. Pediatrics/Young Family, Aging Consumer, Gen Z, etc.)

Brand Development Team Leadership Role

• Is the Global Retail Excellence leader for an assigned global brand development team to ensure external shopper, channel and customer perspective across priority markets are fully embedded in commercial strategy and brand activations.
• Leads key initiatives for the Global Brand Development team for assigned retail excellence capabilities.
• Leads development of global channel strategy for assigned Brand Development Team, works with regional and priority markets to ensure customer priorities and requirements are embedded in new product development, brand growth strategy, and overall go to market plans.
• Leads development of global retail excellence and shopper toolkits, new global product launch playbooks, and RGM guidelines/playbooks for the assigned global brand development team. Works with cross-functional global brand team including marketing, insights, and R&D while partnering with key stakeholders from regional teams and priority markets to ensure critical requirements are captured and effective deployment of material.
• Represents Global Brand Development Team priorities and requirements within broader retail excellence organization for alignment and prioritization of resources and investment across broader Segment.

What we are looking for

Required Skills / Experiences

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree

• 10 years of Consumer Products industry experience in Category or Customer Strategy, Customer Business Development, Category Insights & Analytics, and/or Shopper Insights & analytics

• Extensive knowledge of omni retail customer store operations, structure, strategy, and retail execution tactics.

• Budgeting and forecasting, commercial and financial acumen

• Direct customer sales experience in CPG is preferred

• Global or multi-regional experience is preferred

• Up to 10-25% global or domestic travel

What's in it for you

• Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $144,000 to $215,000. This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors
• Competitive Benefit Package*
• Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Volunteer Time, Flexible Ways of Working & More!
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Employee Resource Groups
• This list could vary based on location/region

*Note: Total Rewards at Kenvue include salary, bonus (if applicable) and benefits. Your Talent Access Partner will be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the recruitment & hiring process.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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