Job particulars
- Job title
- Product Innovation Manager – Local Brands
- Hiring organisation
- s Expand Recruitment Services
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- Sales & Marketing
- Level
- Management
- Posted
- 29 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 10 Nov 2026
Key responsibilities
- Identify high-potential local market opportunities by translating consumer insights into actionable innovation briefs.
- Partner with Research & Innovation teams to assess formula feasibility, packaging, and business potential, embedding Augmented Beauty and sustainable design practices.
- Build commercial business cases for new launches, defining volume forecasts, pricing, and profitability targets.
- Direct 360-degree launch toolkits across digital, point-of-sale, and media channels to ensure distinctive brand expression.
- Steer complex cross-functional launch schedules, resolving operational bottlenecks to meet go-to-market milestones.
Candidate requirements
- You bring curiosity for local culture and a sharp instinct for commercially viable beauty concepts. You bring:.
- Consumer Insight & Analysis: Ability to translate consumer behaviour and market trends into clear product opportunities.
- Product Conception: Capability to shape compelling product concepts from initial ideation through to launch execution.
- Business Acumen: Understanding of financial viability, pricing logic, and volume forecasting to validate business cases.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Track record of aligning marketing, R&I, and commercial teams around shared project milestones.
- Brand & Creative Direction: Eye for distinctive brand identity and multi-channel creative storytelling.
- What’s In It For You.
- A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
- Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal.
- An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference.
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Hiring organisation
s Expand Recruitment Services