Assistant Manager, Category Leadership Management
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**Assistant Manager, Category Leadership Management**

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* New York, New York

* Research & Development

* 220086

* Este Lauder Companies

Este Lauder Companies ** Share Job**

* Lead the end to end project management of market and category analysis including scoping of analysis, establish hypothesizes with senior leadership and cross-functional teams and delivering pertinent and actionable insights to Brands and Functions

* Develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct category analyses and develop category foresight actioned via a clear where to play / how to win set of choices that drive category market share gains

* Enable enterprise to play its portfolio against big, fast growing and new trends by enabling Brands to make strategic bets by creating, reacting to and predicting opportunities through a deeper understanding of category insights, internal and external technology assets, macroeconomic forces and global and local Beauty trends

* Assess short and long term gaps vs. strategic plans, pipelines and execution (Innovation, Marketing and Supply Chain sufficiency) to drive product innovation and commercial activation

* Support the development of 3-year market projections for category and the brand ambitions across the category

* Track and govern the deployment and execution of key strategic initiatives by designing metrics and KPIs and drive actionable analytics against scorecard and company goal

* Plays a key role in the category strategy development process, supporting senior management in enabling Brands, Regions and Functions to achieve objectives

* Present to c-suite leadership on Brand actions

* Support functional strategy development for all of R&D, Packaging, Product Development and Corporate Innovation. Write the 3-year strategy together with EVP, R&D, and Packaging & PD.

* Support Brand Innovation strategy for the enterprise, coordinating across Functions, Brands and Regions.

* Design financial models and reverse engineer opportunity size to gain market share and long-term sustainable growth

* Define creative, out-of-the-box thinking to analytically identify white space opportunities across benefits and formulate an approach to address the identified opportunity

* Track and govern the deployment and execution of key strategic initiatives by designing metrics and KPIs and drive actionable analytics against scorecard and company goals

**Minimum Education level:** BS/BA required - MBA highly desirable. **Minimum Years of Experience:** 3-5 years **Required Language Proficiency:** Mandarin Preferred * Bachelors Degree required, MBA highly desirable

* 3-5 years experience in a strategy role. Management consulting and/or consumer strategy preferable.

* Mandarin proficiency highly desirable

* The ideal candidate must have :

+ Highly developed strategic thinking, influencing skills, flexibility, strong work ethic, excellent oral and written communication

+ Ability to work independently and proactively with all levels of the organization

+ Ability to handle a heavy workload with competing priorities

+ Create and deliver succinct Power Point presentations to communicate insights and strategy concisely to stakeholders

+ Develop and build excel models to build financial projection backed by key assumptions

+ Detail oriented with strong organizational skills with the ability to shift focus, multi-task, and prioritize in a rapidly changing environment

+ Ability to work cross-functions / Regions / Brands and effectively interact with all ELC departments

+ Strong connections with key points of contact and / or capable of creating / developing cross ELC relationships