Passionate about the Nordic beauty market and driving growth? At L'Oréal Luxe, use your strategic leadership to craft winning category strategies, build partnerships, and turn insights into action. Do you lead with innovation and strive to dominate the market? Keep reading, you might be exactly the one we are looking for as our new Category Manager in L'Oréal Luxe Nordic. 

Your mission...

As a Nordic Category Manager at L'Oréal Luxe in the Nordics, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our brands. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and driving Nordic category strategies, ensuring alignment with our global vision while fostering cross-functional collaboration. You will identify growth opportunities, build strong retailer relationships, and champion innovative activation plans to maximize market share and profitability. This dynamic role requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of consumer and market trends. The role will be based in either Copenhagen or Stockholm and reports to the Nordic Chief Growth Officer.

• Drive Nordic Category Growth: Identify growth opportunities by analyzing market trends and shopper behavior, developing and implementing tailored Nordic category strategies in collaboration with global and local teams.
• Execute Go-to-Market Plans & Build Retailer Relationships: Design and implement impactful category activation plans in partnership with Business Units and Commercial teams, fostering strong relationships with key retailers through expert insights and collaborative strategies.
• Optimize Performance & Champion Best Practices: Monitor key performance indicators to measure the effectiveness of strategies, adapt and communicate global best practices, and provide insights for budget planning.
• Contribute to Long-Term Strategy & Lead Presentations: Participate in long-term category planning, provide local market expertise, and lead yearly strategy presentations to retailers, showcasing our vision and collaborative approach.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Marketing, Business Units, and other stakeholders to align category activation plans with overall business objectives, fostering regular dialogue with Commercial teams and retailers to shape growth opportunities.

We are looking for… 

• You have +3 years of experience in category management  
• You have demonstrated the ability to develop and execute strategic plans that drive business growth. You have a talent for identifying opportunities to grow brands and categories by assessing white spaces. 
• You have gained knowledge of activation excellence and business opportunity identification. 
• You possess strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and identify market trends. You are proficient in data-driven decision making and shopper intelligence. 
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. 
• You are skilled in P&L management and budget allocation. 
• You have a passion for the beauty industry and a drive to stay ahead of market trends.

We are looking for our new Nordic Category Manager to start ideally on 1st of April 2025. 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, 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 – with 500 of them based in City.

Who are we?

Leading the world in beauty and pioneering the world of beauty tech, we are more than 90,000 employees across 150 countries and have a unique portfolio of 37 international brands. In 2024, the Group generated sales amounting to 43.48 billion euros. We push boundaries to stay ahead, delivering innovation and digital solutions that bring beauty to all. L’Oréal embraces entrepreneurship, allowing you to conceptualize ideas and bring them to life in an agile way. Your job is your innovation playground.

At L’Oréal, we define success as making a positive, conscious impact. For 115 years, we've devoted ourselves to fulfilling beauty aspirations worldwide. Our purpose: to create the beauty that moves the world. We offer the best in quality, efficacy, safety, and responsibility, celebrating beauty in its infinite plurality. With 21 research centers globally and a dedicated team of over 4,000 scientists and 8,000 Digital talents, L’Oréal is focused on inventing the future of beauty and becoming a Beauty Tech powerhouse. We are committed to social and environmental sustainability.

Freedom to Go Beyond. That’s the Beauty of L’Oréal.