Sr Specialist Product I

Skills & Experience 

Experience: 3+ years portfolio/product/management experience. Beauty industry and/or direct selling experience preferred. Experience in a global market preferred. Experience working on complex projects.

Education: Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred) in marketing or business administration.

• Proven ability to work on complex product projects with numerous cross-functional dependencies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multiple projects with multiple timelines.
• The ability to influence and exchange information on multiple projects with various levels of leadership with a broad and global cross-section of key partners is a must.
• Ability to build strong relationships and collaborate across a multitude of functions and levels.
• Solid business and financial acumen with analytical skills including understanding of financial principles and how to demonstrate this knowledge to make sound business recommendations to achieve business goals in a complex environment with multiple layers of partners.
• Must have the ability to demonstrate critical thinking skills, problem-solve, assess risks, and coordinate plans across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to act as a change agent and adapt to changing business and organizational dynamics.
• Must demonstrate the ability to gather and analyze competitive, cost, and historical information and to prepare price comparison charts.
• Must be able to effectively manage projects and meet timelines.
• Must demonstrate the ability to develop options and recommend pricing, develop and tabulate results of feedback surveys and ensure the accuracy of communications.
• A good understanding of the core principles of product portfolio management is preferred.
• Must be well organized, have high levels of detail on projects, and handle multiple activities/tasks under pressure.
• Must be proficient in software applications such as MS Excel (development of spreadsheets, import/export, and linking); MS Word; MS PowerPoint; MS Project, MS Teams and MS Outlook, Tableau Qualtrics, or other research SaaS platforms. Oracle Agile software experience is desired.
• Demonstrates the Global Product Management (GPM) functional competency behaviors for Sr Product Specialist I.