Marketing-Oriented Cosmetic Formulator M/F

Our group is one of the world leaders in subcontracting within the makeup industry, specializing in the manufacturing of nail polish, mascara, and lip gloss. Our products are sold internationally, and we partner with renowned global brands.

We are recruiting a Marketing-Oriented Cosmetic Formulator to strengthen our marketing team.

As a Marketing-Oriented Cosmetic Formulator, you will lead the end-to-end development of innovative and high-performance products, from concept to launch. With a strategic vision and a deep understanding of formulation, packaging, and market trends, you will translate industry insights into actionable product concepts.

As a manager, you will be responsible for leading and supervising the junior product manager working on your category, to achieve organizational goals while ensuring high performance and productivity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Market Analysis: Conduct qualitative and quantitative research to anticipate market trends, analyze competitors, and identify opportunities and white spaces in the portfolio.
• Project Leadership: Manage cross-functional projects from ideation to launch, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Cross-Department Coordination: Act as a key liaison between Sales, R&D, and external partners to ensure seamless execution of product development.
• Product Portfolio Management: Lead the development of new products specifically for the Eyes category (mascara + liquid eyeliner) by collaborating with R&D to develop formulas that meet market needs and respond to client briefs.
• Sensorial analysis: Have a high product sensibility in order to test products and validate or redirect reworks if necessary.
• Packaging development: work closely with external packaging suppliers to co-develop performing product combinations.
• Client presentations: key contact for product presentations linked to your product category. Both for innovation presentations (new products) as well as any type of guidance to brands regarding a specific product development request.
• Project follow-up: ensure an overview of all ongoing projects and enable smooth follow up of each one (formula submissions within deadlines etc) to obtain a high % of project attribution.
• Performance evaluation: Analyse success and failures (projects not won), to better understand the strength and weaknesses of your product offering, in order to capitalize on new business opportunities and optimize future development strategies.

Profile Sought:

• Master's degree (Bac +5) in chemistry, cosmetic formulation, physical chemistry, or a related scientific field
• At least 5 years of experience in product development/formulation within the cosmetics industry
• Strong interest in product marketing, trends, and innovation
• Excellent communication skills, team spirit, curiosity, and creativity
• Ability to simplify and highlight technical content for a non-scientific audience

Our Offer :

• Permanent position based in Luxembourg.
• Opportunity to join a dynamic and fast-growing company, operating in diverse international markets

Due to the high volume of applications, if you do not receive a response within three weeks after submitting your application, please consider that it has not been successful.

Job Type: Full-time

Application Question(s):

• When can you start working with us ?
• What are your salary expectations ?