Vice President, Category Lead - Beauty & Wellness

About The Company

Gwyneth Paltrow launched goop from her kitchen as a homespun weekly newsletter. It’s grown a lot since then; goop is a lifestyle platform encompassing curated products and content about beauty, wellness, fashion, food, and home. Pioneering the contextual commerce platform, goop allows readers to shop with meaning. goop is one of the rare places on the web where food, shopping, and mindfulness collide—where the ever-evolving intent is to make every choice count. We’re all resource-strapped, so goop hopes to surface the very best experiences, recipes, products, and advice. 

About You

You are a dynamic storyteller with the ability to influence others with data and market insight. You have a proven ability to launch products successfully and are up to date on the latest products and trends in clean beauty, with a strong commercial awareness of the beauty, skincare & wellness industries. Organization and collaboration are key reasons to your success, and you thrive working with many different teams within an organization on a day-to-day basis.   

About The Role

As the VP, Category Lead - Beauty & Wellness, you will own and support the beauty and wellness product marketing and business strategy at goop – including goop Beauty, goop Wellness, good.clean.goop & Multi-Brand beauty and wellness. You will drive beauty and wellness product strategy with team and cross-functional alignment and financial ownership, including managing growth strategies, product launches, revenue targets and deadlines. You have extensive experience in the beauty industry, including in a product marketing role, preferably within the clean beauty space.  

• Launch Ownership: Work in tandem with Product Development to own 3+ year global product launch decisions and timing for goop Beauty, goop Wellness and good.clean.goop., including product architecture, pricing, positioning, go to market strategy and product launch process, taking into account input from internal stakeholders. 
  • Work with cross-functional partners to ensure on-time launches from concept to trade.
• Provide Insights & Recommend Categories: Lead consumer insight research and analytics to understand consumer trends and make recommendations based on territory, market size and white space. Lead beauty and wellness product launch and reformulation strategy based on trends, seasonality, and key business priorities, taking into account other company vertical launch strategies. 
  • Deliver innovation concepts based on market research and data.
  • Drive ongoing analysis of the category and provide data-informed recommendations for product portfolio, including hero SKU strategy.
  • Define target consumer by product in partnership with brand and integrated marketing teams and channels.
  • Ideate new storytelling angles around hero products to recruit and drive consumer love.
• Market Size and Scope: Define market size and scope for potential new product and reformulation concepts, referencing appropriate benchmarks, competitive analysis, and data points.
• Product Positioning and Messaging: Provide product brand positioning/marketing tactics for new and existing products in partnership with product development, wholesale, and integrated marketing teams to grow market share in current channels and versus competition. This includes preparing and executing comprehensive launch plans inclusive of product naming, package selection, artwork, fact sheets, claims, differentiation, key messaging, positioning and drive incremental revenue.
• Financial Planning and Budgeting: Work cross functionally to ensure that innovation planning and core products meet business objectives and deliver on vertical financial plans in partnership with channel owners. Define & measure against beauty and wellness vertical KPIs (goop-owned and multi).
  • Maximize ROI and value by regularly assessing performance metrics and consumer feedback and data insight across all channels.
  • Lead on reporting overall product performance monthly.
  • Work with channel owners to set annual beauty and wellness category sales projections and update annual projections based on YTD performance through quarterly forecasting process.
  • Own departmental budget that supports beauty and wellness revenue targets.
• Portfolio Management: Lead execution of existing SKU management with planning team, overseeing inventory and hero priorities, markdown inclusions, discontinued/sunset SKUs. Provide strategic recommendations for goop vs multi portfolio, including strategies for percentage of revenue contribution, product category and SKU split.
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