Education and Business Partner London, England
L'Oreal
Full Time
London, England
36741 - 64169 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Education & Business Partner
PPD UKI
London/South East
Fixed-term: 6-8 months
When you look at L’Oréal, what do you see? If all you see is lipstick, look again and experience the Freedom to go Beyond the ordinary. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal. We operate in 150 countries on 5 continents. With 36 international brands and 86,000 employees worldwide, we’re well on our way to fulfilling our common purpose: to create beauty that moves the world.
By 2030 we want to capture over another 1 billion consumers around the world. How? By creating cosmetic products which meet the infinite diversity of consumers beauty needs and desires, and always through digital innovation. Not only that, but taking our sustainability goals seriously; moving us to a more inclusive and sustainable society, for every generation.
Our brands, dynamic culture, and always being our own challenger mean that we offer freedom and opportunity you won’t get anywhere else.
If you want the Freedom to go Beyond, we’ll see you at L’Oréal.
In the Professional Products Division, our mission is to support hairdressers and develop the hair industry sustainably, while benefiting all. We’re the founding Division for the L’Oréal group, having history more than 110 years ago.
Here, you’ll be constantly looking to create connections between our brands, professionals and consumers in every market. Our mission is to always reinvent professional beauty and lead the digital transformation of our industry with a customer-centric approach.
The Professional Products Division is universally known for exclusively supplying salons and other professional customers with the most advanced technologies in hair and beauty products. The 8 brands within this division are L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Shu Uemura Art of Hair, Redken, Pureology, Matrix, Biolage and Pulp Riot. Our brands have made us the world leader in professional beauty products and one of the most dynamic places to pursue your career in the UK.
You will:
Work within the National & Key Accounts team and be assigned to specific National Accounts in your region.- Have a blended role, using both your technical ability and commercial mindset.
- Act as a business partner, establishing and implementing business plans, solutions and carrying out regular business reviews, identifying client needs.
- Deliver education training to your accounts, conducting in-salon training and virtual sessions 4 x per year for each salon.
- Delivering exceptional digital and face to face education sessions, to support the growth of our customer base.
- Establish and grow strong relationships with National Account groups, salons Managers/Franchisees and stylists.
- Work towards targets for events, webinars, and course occupancy within all education project offering.
- Ensure Health & Safety guidelines are in place, including the allergy alert protocol.
- Work closely with the Education managers to ensure the education activity supports commercial outputs.
- Create a full 360 pro-advocacy plan to increase customer and consumer awareness.
- Establish and deliver education plans in all accounts, ensuring the highest expertise of salon staff in using and recommending products and services.
- Implement marketing activity in all accounts.
- Identify opportunities for increasing business through salon gap analysis, and implementing NPD, as well as actively conquesting new business.
- Achieve salon growth by conducting salon needs assessments and business reviews for the accounts, identifying ISMS, NPD and new business opportunities across your area.
- Create NPD Education launch plans across your area, ensuring 100% distribution once approved.
- Implement a salon contact strategy with a blend of F2F/virtual meetings to ensure a fast go to market strategy, to pro-actively embed the brands strategy on all approved social media platforms and in line with the L’Oréal social media policy.
- Engage, communicate and demonstrate Access to all customers ensuring registration and engagement to 24/7 on-line education for all accounts.
- Drive maximum occupancy for all NatAcc courses, events and online activities.
- Achieve the colour and retail account base objectives set for your territory.
You are:
Entrepreneurial. Every single day, you spot opportunities to shake things up.- Super creative. There’s no blueprint for the future. You’ll have to design it.
- Adventurous. L’Oréal is for pioneers. So you’ll embrace challenges and change.
- Only human. You’ll make mistakes sometimes but you have no fear of failure because you’re smart enough to learn from mistakes.
- Ambitious. You crave success and we’ll support you all the way. That way, we all win.
- Respectful. Whoever you’re talking to, you treat everyone the same.
- One of the gang. Even if you’re Superman or Wonder Woman, you recognise that teams are the real heroes. And so do we.
- Open. To new ways of doing things. To other people’s (sometimes crazy) ideas.
- You. You’re real. And you’re true to yourself. We cherish and celebrate diversity so you’ll feel right at home whoever you are.
You have:
A NVQ Level 3 as a minimum qualification and experience of teaching, educating, coaching or assessing hairdressers in a field role- Extensive knowledge and experience of colour
- Experience of building relationships with clients and stakeholders
- Commercially awareness and understand the importance of selling; you must be good with figures
- Great communication skills, and are able to give and receive feedback with positive attitude, always be approachable and keep communication flow at all levels transparent and up to date
- A solutions orientated mindset with the ability to work accurately at pace and manage ambiguity in ever changing and demanding environment
- Strong planning and organizational skills, with an ability to appropriately re-prioritise and change as required to meet deadlines
- Risk awareness and you build contingency into plans.
You show:
Ambition: You anticipate, think and dream big, demonstrating a high level of aspiration. You are self-driven and show proactivity, especially when seeing problems as challenges. You thrive for exceptional performance.
Judgement: You can balance operational and strategic thinking, challenging the status quo and managing confrontation effectively. You cut quickly through complexity and ambiguity whilst also thinking sustainably and are future-oriented. You reduce complexity to get things done.
Resilience: You always demonstrate purpose and ownership mindset but manage your own energy well. You uphold positivity for others and persist, bouncing back when faced with obstacles. You step back at times and accept limits.
Empathy: You cooperate and network effectively, creating genuine and trustful relationships with diverse people. You are sensitive to beauty and related emotions, always supporting others and showing benevolence. You understand and respect others’ feelings and motives.
Learning Agility: You are a self-motivated learner, showing self-awareness and demonstrating openness and curiosity. You experiment and learn from mistakes and past experiences, always showing courage and stepping out of your comfort zone. You support the development of a learning culture.
You get:
We put people development and learning at the heart of our business; we’ll help you master your role, develop your technical expertise and you’ll benefit from exceptional management and leadership programmes. From face-to-face workshops to our global online learning resources, you’re actively encouraged to embed learning into your daily life and are rewarded for continuous improvement. Don’t forget that every employee gets 3 Coursera credits; that means you can get qualifications from over 1000 universities from around the world, with thousands of courses to choose from.
Looking for a good work/life balance? With our new hybrid working scheme, you can take a flexible approach to work as well as benefit from early finishes on Fridays during the summer...so you can enjoy more time with your friends and family.
As any great employer should do, we make sure we look after your financial wellbeing. That’s why we have a great pension plan, profit share scheme and many more incentives to give you the security you deserve. We also put employee health and wellbeing at the front of everything we do; fully training employees as mental health ambassadors to support and educate ourselves further. There’s also the chance to enrol in medical and dental insurance, gym discounts, health check-ups and even yoga and Pilates classes to employees in all of our locations.
Oh, did we mention that as an employee you also get discount sales of up to 70% off throughout the year on our 36 brands? Plus, you also get the option to share that in our Friends and Family sales as well!
How we recruit
At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.
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L'Oreal
www.loreal.com
Clichy, France
Nicolas Hieronimus
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Consumer Product Manufacturing
1909
