Associate, Global Product Development, MAC

## Description

This role is responsible for contributing to all phases of new product development and product reformulation processes from concept to consumer. This individual must be innovative and creative with a keen awareness of global color and industry trends. This position requires a solid understanding of product development fundamentals with an expertise in prestige color cosmetics along with the ability to apply strategic thinking throughout ideation and conceptualization.

Key Responsibilities

• Follow trends, recent competitive launches & research ingredient stories to create competitive analysis to ensure all project ideas/concepts meet the brand's key identity, as well as stays relevant in a vast and growing industry
• Track & take notes in all meetings for internal & external team alignment and reference
• Assist team with pulling shade prototypes and lineups for programs
• Attend vendor presentations & assist team with evaluating all samples
• Contribute to tracking all stages of new product development from concepting, brief writing, communicating with lab on submissions, communicating with internal/crossfunctional stakeholders on development, evaluating submissions, formula approval and through commercialization
• Log, label and organize all product submissions
• Coordinate and organize clinical and sensory test samples
• Coordinate and organize Internal Panel Tests
• Pull products and set up for all meeting requests
• Evaluate all 1st Production batches and re⁃establish Production Standards
• Evaluate all finished goods retains to ensure quality is on par
• Create and present Seasonal Mood boards to Senior Management
• May be required to travel to labs internationally and domestically to help establish and approve shade lineups
• Review product swatches, product application & product imagery with the Photography team to ensure that it is accurate and representative
• Provide/find Pantones, Shade Descriptions for all Complexion programs
• Lead and coordinate all sampling needs
• Purchasing and maintaining the competitive library

## Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years color prestige color cosmetics product development experience
• Passionate about the beauty industry
• Demonstrated skills with project management and knowledge of new product development lifecycle
• Ability to execute under accelerated timeframes and quickly adapts to change in priorities
• Proven ability to take complicated information and summarize the key messages for a variety of audiences
• Ability to work in a fast⁃paced, often⁃changing, collaborative environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with exceptional interpersonal skills