This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Associate Director, Beauty Transformation - Walmart based in United States.
This is a strategic leadership opportunity focused on transforming the shopper experience across Beauty & Personal Care within a major retail environment.
You will shape category growth strategies by combining shopper insights, commercial dynamics, market intelligence, and emerging tools.
The role serves as a trusted strategic partner to a leading retailer’s merchandising organization and helps define joint business priorities.
You will lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives involving internal teams, external agencies, and senior customer stakeholders.
Success requires turning sophisticated data and insights into compelling recommendations, commercial opportunities, and actionable plans.
The environment is highly collaborative and fast-moving, with significant opportunity to influence category strategy, innovation, and long-term growth.
This role is ideal for a commercially minded strategist who thrives in ambiguity and can inspire teams while building executive-level relationships.
Accountabilities:
- Lead shopper and category strategy: Drive continuous improvement of category growth processes and champion innovative tools, approaches, and capabilities that shape the future of Beauty & Personal Care.
- Partner with retail merchandising: Act as a trusted strategic advisor to the retailer’s Beauty and Personal Care Merchandising organization, owning the strategic direction of key joint initiatives and opportunities.
- Lead cross-functional programs: Bring together internal stakeholders and external agency partners to deliver thought leadership, strategic recommendations, and high-impact programs across multiple workstreams.
- Define strategic growth opportunities: Integrate shopper, market, commercial, and consumer insights to establish short- and long-term positioning and translate findings into actionable execution plans and customer touchpoints.
- Turn insights into action: Move beyond traditional analysis by identifying emerging opportunities, applying strong strategic intuition, and converting complex information into decisive business recommendations.
- Build strategic relationships: Develop strong partnerships across cross-functional teams and customer stakeholders, proactively connecting business opportunities with strategic and tactical recommendations.
- Develop compelling storytelling: Combine quantitative data, shopper insights, and creative thinking to create executive-ready selling stories and category strategies that highlight growth opportunities.
- Develop people and culture: Foster a high-performing, inclusive, and collaborative culture while coaching, motivating, and developing team members and contributing to their professional growth.
Requirements
- Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree required, along with 10+ years of experience in Category Management, Customer Management, Consumer Insights, Sales Strategy, or a closely related discipline.
- Industry expertise: Strong CPG and Beauty industry experience is required, with a demonstrated understanding of category dynamics, shoppers, retail environments, and commercial strategy.
- Executive communication: Proven ability to develop and present sophisticated strategic recommendations to senior executives and C-suite audiences with clarity, confidence, and compelling business storytelling.
- Data and insights expertise: Extensive experience working with data sources such as Nielsen/Circana, Scintilla, panel providers, social listening and reviews platforms, and digital commerce data.
- Analytics-to-action capability: Strong ability to connect traditional analytics with emerging capabilities and tools to generate differentiated insights and translate them into commercially relevant actions.
- Cross-functional leadership: Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-workstream initiatives across diverse teams and managing external agency partners toward shared objectives.
- Strategic mindset: Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments, challenging conventional approaches, identifying future opportunities, and balancing strategic vision with practical execution.
- Relationship-building: Exceptional stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to establish trusted relationships across internal teams and major customer organizations.
- Preferred: MBA or other relevant advanced degree is preferred.
- Preferred: Previous experience working directly with Walmart or within a comparable large-scale retail environment is highly desirable.
Benefits
- Base salary: $146,200–$219,400 annually, with final compensation determined by experience, skills, qualifications, education, and other business factors.
- Bonus eligibility: Eligible for a performance-based bonus opportunity.
- Long-term incentives: Eligible to participate in a long-term incentive program.
- Healthcare: Access to health insurance options, including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage.
- Retirement: Retirement savings benefits are available to eligible employees.
- Time off: Paid vacation, holidays, sick leave, and parental leave.
- Insurance: Life insurance and disability benefits.
- Additional benefits: Access to a range of voluntary benefits and other employee programs.
- Work arrangement: Fully remote position within the United States.
- Inclusive workplace: Commitment to an inclusive environment where employees are supported in their growth and development.
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