ED, Skincare Intelligence & Analytics

ELC Beauty LLC•New York, NY

6d•$158,650 - $272,700

About The Position

The Executive Director, Skincare Intelligence & Analytics will shape long-term skincare category strategy in partnership with Global Category leadership, Brand Presidents, and executive leadership. The role identifies future growth opportunities, strategic priorities, portfolio gaps, and evolving consumer needs, and establishes a coherent view of skincare demand, category growth, market dynamics, brand performance, and competitive activity across priority markets. The position delivers analytics and insights for business reviews, performance deep-dives, and category and brand strategy cycles. It integrates syndicated market and panel data, CRM, digital and search data, brand health, social and cultural intelligence, retailer and customer performance, internal finance and business metrics, competitive intelligence, and ecommerce data. The role translates consumer and commercial evidence into strategic choices for the skincare category, brands, regions, and markets, and works with the Corporate Trends team to develop consumer, cultural, and beauty foresights and their strategic implications. The Executive Director advances centralized and self-service reporting, repeatable analytical frameworks, and scalable ways of working. The role is responsible for data quality and alignment of analytics solutions with stakeholder needs, and serves as a strategic thought partner to Global Category, Marketing, and Product Development leadership. It uses strategic storytelling and evidence-based challenge to influence executive decisions, manages third-party research vendor relationships, and leads, mentors, and develops consumer intelligence junior personnel.

Requirements

Typically requires 15 or more years of experience in market research, consumer insights, marketing strategy, or data analytics.
Demonstrated ability to translate consumer understanding into category strategy, brand positioning, innovation priorities, and long-term business growth, including identifying where to compete, how to differentiate, and future opportunities.
Strong understanding of commercial drivers of prestige skincare, including innovation, pricing architecture, distribution, claims, portfolio management, retailer dynamics, and global market evolution.
Curiosity about skincare science, dermatology, ingredient technologies, longevity, biotechnology, and emerging scientific advances, and ability to translate technical developments into meaningful consumer opportunities.
Exceptional ability to influence senior executives through strategic thinking, evidence-based recommendations, and thoughtful challenge; comfortable discussing business strategy beyond consumer research.
Ability to frame ambiguous business challenges, connect diverse information into coherent strategic choices, and support better long-term organizational decisions.
Deep expertise interpreting quantitative data, including new-product launch learning and testing, and qualitative feedback such as focus groups and interviews.
Demonstrated ability to use diverse data sources, including social listening platforms, consumer panels, and POS data, to uncover insights, identify emerging trends, and drive strategic business decisions.
Ability to clarify business needs and distill complex data into compelling, accessible narratives that influence decisions at all levels.
Deep understanding of beauty culture across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Xiaohongshu, and emerging platforms, including distinguishing viral moments from enduring consumer shifts.
Strong consumer curiosity and interest in consumers, creators, cultural movements, and the forces shaping prestige beauty.
Confident yet humble leadership style; values diverse perspectives, listens actively, and uses consumer evidence to build alignment rather than win debates.
Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills in a highly matrixed organization; able to build trusted relationships across brands, regions, functions, and leadership levels.
Ability to navigate complexity, align stakeholders around a shared understanding of the consumer, and drive action without direct authority.
Strong communication, collaboration, and executive presence to translate insights into influence, foster alignment, and accelerate business impact.

Responsibilities

Partner with Global Category leadership, Brand Presidents, and executive leadership to shape long-term skincare category strategies, identifying growth opportunities, priorities, portfolio gaps, and changing consumer needs.
Establish a coherent view of skincare demand, category growth, market dynamics, brand performance, and competitive activity across priority markets.
Deliver analytics and insights for monthly and quarterly business reviews, performance deep-dives, and category and brand strategy cycles.
Conduct in-depth performance and competitor reviews to identify intersections between consumer demand and commercial opportunity, and translate them into strategic choices for categories, brands, regions, and markets.
Lead issue-based analytics by integrating market share, panels, brand health, Demand Spaces, trends, and social listening.
Partner with the Corporate Trends team to identify and develop forward-looking consumer, cultural, and beauty trends and translate them into skincare foresights and strategic implications for Global Brands, Regions, and Markets.
Spearhead development and adoption of centralized and self-service reporting and repeatable analytical frameworks that improve access to information, decision speed, and organizational consistency.
Identify opportunities to streamline reporting, reduce duplication, improve processes, and establish scalable ways of working that enable more strategic analysis and guidance.
Monitor analytics, research, reporting, and technology capabilities and recommend approaches to strengthen decision-making and organizational effectiveness.
Collaborate with stakeholders to align analytics solutions with future needs and objectives.
Ensure accuracy, consistency, and integrity of data used for category analysis and reporting.
Act as a strategic thought partner to Global Category, Marketing, and Product Development leadership, strengthening consumer-centric strategic decision-making.
Constructively challenge assumptions and conventional thinking with objective consumer evidence and strategic perspective.
Distill multiple data sources into clear, compelling narratives that inspire action and influence executive decisions.
Integrate primary research with syndicated data, social intelligence, search behavior, ecommerce analytics, retail performance, and competitive intelligence to understand category dynamics and future growth opportunities.
Own and manage relationships with third-party market research vendors.
Lead, mentor, and build high-performing consumer intelligence junior personnel.