Product Development Executive - Color Huda Beauty

Summary: Responsible for owning and supporting the end-to-end development of kits and color product development, from trend identification and concept creation to formula development, cross-functional alignment, and supplier communication.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Understand key trends and translate them into strong beauty concepts.
• Stay up to date of the competitive environment & track launches.
• Help fuel PD calendar by proposing innovative product concepts with a focus on color.
• Create aesthetic product mood boards aligned with current projects or to inspire new product ideas and concepts.
• Have a feel & excitement for textures & a good eye for colors.
• Manage end-to-end development trackers; from conception to production.
• Create strong & detailed product briefs to be sent to suppliers including innovative ingredients & target claims .
• Assist Manager in the evaluation & approval of textures for color projects.
• Manage PD formula standards & dispatch to relevant internal and external partners.
• Becoming the project lead for dedicated color programs with guidance & assistance of manager.
• Communicate texture & shade direction changes to suppliers through daily follow up emails or calls.
• Re-direct submissions until desired attributes and performance is achieved.
• Build strong supplier relationships.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.
• Work cross-functionally and internationally to drive ideas from conception to execution, partnering with the PD operations, Product & Brand Marketing teams.
• Provide all artwork information (INCI, Claims results ) and their translations for primary and secondary packaging to Design Lead for artwork briefing in time for artwork due dates.
• Assist in meeting preparation, including agendas and action item follow-up.
• Travel required to meet suppliers, execute onsite formula approvals with manager s guidance.

• Must have mininum 3 years' experience in product development/makeup artistry.

• Solid understanding of formulation basics and ability to assess textures, finishes,sensorial performance and shade payoffs critically.
• Able to work in fast paced environment.
• Attention to detail while managing multiple projects.
• Solutions-oriented and adaptable to fast-changing projects.
• Strong project management mindset with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple launches and changes quickly.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, able to seek answers independently.
• Be a make-up lover!
• Must be tech savvy and be able to create nice presentations slides according to brand DNA.
• Must have experience in communicating with many different nationalities.
• Strong research skills.
• Adaptable and flexible team player, conscious of team dynamics, open to quick change.
• Passion for and knowledge of the beauty industry brands, products, bloggers, and influencers.
• Skills using Microsoft programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint bonus if have skills in Adobe Photoshop, Canva AI platorms for data extraction, trend forecast platforms.
• Makeup artistry experience (make up assistant or retail floor) would be an extra benefit, but is not a must.