About the Role / About the Job
Based in Mumbai, India, this position requires travel split 50% between the Middle East and Emerging Markets. We are hiring a Senior Manager, Consumer Intelligence – Middle East and Emerging Markets to enhance our understanding of consumers in these dynamic, culturally diverse markets. This role offers the opportunity to influence critical decisions regarding some of the world’s most iconic prestige beauty brands, impacting everything from product launches to brand storytelling and consumer engagement.
You will be responsible for combining strategic insights with hands-on execution, collaborating closely with local, regional, and global teams to inform business directions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Bring the consumer’s voice into brand strategy, annual planning, product launches, campaigns, and investment decisions.
- Understand how culture, lifestyle, and shopping behavior shape beauty preferences across the Middle East, India, Turkey, and Southeast Asia.
- Lead research into consumer needs, brand perceptions, shopper behavior, and growth opportunities.
- Connect brand health, market intelligence, social listening, CRM, digital, and retail data to reveal the bigger picture.
- Transform findings into compelling stories and actionable recommendations for teams.
- Partner with leadership, brand, marketing, digital, and commercial teams to embed insights into decision-making processes.
- Manage research agencies and projects, representing local consumer priorities in both regional and global discussions.
Qualifications
What You Will Bring
- A minimum of 8 years’ experience in consumer insights and market research.
- Deep understanding of Middle East consumers; experience with India and broader emerging markets (Turkey, Southeast Asia) is highly valued.
- Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills.
- Commercial judgment with the ability to translate complex data into clear recommendations.
- Excellent storytelling, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- A curious, proactive, and hands-on approach.
- Fluent English; prestige beauty, luxury, or related consumer sector experience is a plus.
Help us understand what matters to consumers—and shape what comes next in beauty.
