Open Innovation Development Senior Manager, Face & Eyes
Key Skills
Job Description
ABOUT COTY
Coty is one of the world's largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skin care and body care. Coty is the global leader in fragrance and number three in color cosmetics. Coty's products are sold in over 150 countries around the world. Coty and its brands are committed to a range of social causes while continuously seeking to minimize their impact on the environment. For additional information about Coty Inc., please visit www.coty.com.
Coty is seeking a strategic and entrepreneurial leader to drive Open Innovation within assigned Color categories. This role is critical to shaping the future of our global Color portfolio. The successful candidate will bring strong commercial acumen, trend insight, and executional excellence to deliver differentiated, high-impact innovation.
The Open Innovation Development Manager - EU Face & Eyes is responsible for identifying, developing, and executing new product concepts, trend-lead innovations, and strategic initiatives across Coty’s assigned Consumer Beauty color categories (Face & Eyes). This individual will lead portfolio strategy, identify growth opportunities, and partner cross-functionally to deliver profitable and timely launches. The role will be based in our Amsterdam City location.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Your main focus:
- Lead the strategy for assigned categories, including portfolio gaps, renovations, upgrades, and new initiatives.
- Develop and manage a 3+ year innovation pipeline and global launch roadmap.
- Scout external innovation through regular engagement with key TPMs, suppliers, and industry partners.
- Monitor global beauty trends, emerging technologies, and competitive product launches within color categories.
- Identify whitespace opportunities and translate insights into actionable product concepts.
- Evaluate product development pathways (in-house vs. third-party manufacturing) based on cost, speed, quality, and innovation capabilities, and recommend as appropriate.
- Create and brief commercially driven product concepts; engage with global brand teams to drive market performance.
- Represent Coty at trade shows and industry events to build external partnerships.
- Support end-to-end execution and commercialization of new product launches, partnering with TPMs, R&D, and cross-functional teams to meet milestones and quality standards.
- Provide input into SKU rationalization, package design, formula and shade development, and competitive analysis.
- Lead trend analysis, monitoring competitive products, formulas, ingredients, claims, and shade palettes across channels.
- Test and evaluate new formulas and competitive launches; support shade gap analysis.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for innovation-related cross-functional and external collaboration.
- Partner with CMI on need-gap analysis and competitive evaluation using tools such as Mintel, WGSN, Revuzé, and Nielsen.
QUALIFICATION
We’d love to see candidates who have:
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred (Business, Chemistry, Cosmetic Science, or related field).
- 7+ years of experience with cosmetic and skincare development and working with Marketing sector (beauty, prestige, specialty retail and/or e-retail preferred), Strong background in Face & Eyes.
- Proven experience working with third-party manufacturers and managing external partnerships.
- Strong understanding of the beauty industry, particularly color cosmetics and Face & Eyes products.
- Demonstrated ability to translate trends into successful product launches.
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills.
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management abilities across cross-functional teams.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Creativity and Innovation - Creativity, originality, intuition, strong color eye
Leadership and Personal - Communication, objectivity, integrity, dependability, initiative, flexibility, sensitivity, impact, tenacity, autonomy, collaboration Advanced proficiency skills in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word
Core Responsibilities
The Senior Manager will lead the innovation strategy for Face & Eyes categories, developing a 3+ year pipeline and roadmap. They are responsible for scouting external innovation, managing third-party manufacturing partnerships, and driving product launches from concept to commercialization.
Requirements
Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and at least 7 years of experience in cosmetic and skincare development, specifically within Face & Eyes. Strong project management, analytical skills, and the ability to translate global beauty trends into actionable product concepts are required.
About Coty
Industry: Personal Care Product Manufacturing
Company size: 10,001+ employees
Since 1904, Coty has fearlessly pioneered innovation across the beauty industry. We have a reputation for breaking new ground; a history of ‘firsts’ and ‘bests’ that has laid the foundation for the industry as we know it today. For over a century, our brands have been empowering people to express themselves and create their own vision of beauty. It’s a legacy we’re proud to own and grow. We work hand-in-hand with our people, our partners and our customers. Together, we unleash every vision of beauty. We stand for the beauty of diversity and the diversity of beauty - celebrating and inspiring all the expressions of beauty that exist and that will exist. We honor you, and we honor our planet. We create Beauty That Lasts. A beauty that is both good to people and the world. Our mission is to create a forward thinking beauty; Products that provide new, innovative and simply better science based solutions. Let’s keep making over the beauty world TOGETHER.