Sr. Trend Designer- Essential and Beauty

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Team Overview:

A team within our Essentials&Beauty business leading trend forecasting and driving bold strategies across categories and the enterprise. We seek diverse skill sets and experiences to create compelling and differentiated strategies that shape future business brand and product vision connect to enterprise strategic initiatives and uncover new opportunities for long-term growth.

Position Overview:

As aSr. Trend Designerin Essentials&Beauty you will lead the identification synthesis and activation of emerging cultural consumer and category trends to inform product development merchandising strategy and enterprise decision-making. You will translate trend intelligence into actionable insights and strategic opportunities that drive growth differentiation and innovation across a broad portfolio of brands and categories.

By connecting cultural shifts consumer behaviors and emerging market dynamics you will uncover future opportunities and inspire new ways of meeting consumer needshelping the businessanticipatewhat comes next not just respond to what existstoday. Thiswill beaccomplishedthrough:

INTELLIGENCEANDINSIGHTS GATHERING

• Leverage multiple sources of intelligence toidentifyand track emerging trends cultural shifts and evolving consumer behaviors across categories and competitive landscapes.

• Leaddeep-dive category analyses and deliver actionable insightsand trend implicationsfor merchantsproductdevelopment brand and enterprise partners.

• Monitor innovation emerging markets consumer behaviors and macro cultural shifts toidentifyfuture opportunities inform strategic priorities and drive business growth.
  

TRENDANDCONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

• Synthesize diverse inputs toidentifymacro trend landscape and emerging opportunity spaces and future areas of consumer relevance in close partnership with cross-category trend teams.

• Translate macro aesthetics and trends into pyramid-specific guidance across aesthetics color and sensorial (fragrance flavors textures and other sensorial expressions) to influence a broad portfolio of brands and categories.

• Develop brand and category-specific seasonal and evergreen trend concepts that inform owned brands product development assortment activation and cross-category and future innovation opportunities.