Head of Portfolio - Beauty

About the role: The Head of Portfolio, Beauty, is a dynamic and strategic leader responsible for driving the growth, innovation, and financial success of the Beauty product portfolio. This role oversees all aspects of portfolio management — from insight gathering and white space exploration, to product proposition, and lifecycle management. Collaborating with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, the Head of Portfolio will ensure that user-driven insights translate into compelling product briefs, robust range management, and impactful business plans that support the long-term success and expansion of the Dyson Beauty business. Key Responsibilities: • Lead all additions, changes, and strategic recommendations related to the Beauty product portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. • Serve as the key facilitator in the development and expansion of knowledge surrounding user routines, device ownership and usage, end styles, and competitor activities, and integrate these insights into portfolio strategy and decisions. • Work closely with the Vice President, and Commercial Head of the Business Unit to prioritize user benefits and feature delivery in the product range. • Develop clear and actionable product briefs informed by deep knowledge of user benefits, required features, and desired product formats to guide both the Discovery and Delivery phases with the NPI and NPD teams. • Ensure the Beauty Range Plan is kept up to date with latest decisions. • Oversee the generation, analysis, and application of consumer and market insights to inform product proposition, user trials, range structuring, and pricing recommendations. • Champion white space exploration, driving identification of future opportunities and translating insights into innovative new product concepts. • Translate identified user benefits and features into executable product briefs, managing the development and launch cadence in line with business capabilities and targets. • Deliver product plans that support annual volume and profitability growth, focusing on both established core categories and breakthrough opportunities in category expansion. • Own and facilitate all BU communication documents to the Board, including monthly performance updates, BU Board presentations, and the annual 5-year plan and strategy. • Make data-driven recommendations on product discontinuation where appropriate. • Own the business cases for all Dyson Beauty projects, ensuring accuracy and robust financial modelling. • Make informed pricing recommendations and set cost targets for every product in the portfolio. • Lead the submission of SPIs to the Board for the addition and removal of projects. About you: • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Product Management, or a related field. • Proven experience in portfolio management or product management, preferably within consumer beauty, personal care, or technology sectors. • Strong commercial, analytical, and financial acumen with experience building and presenting business cases. • Adept at synthesizing consumer insights and market intelligence into actionable product and portfolio strategies. • Excellent leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills. • Exceptional communication, presentation, and influencing abilities at C-suite and Board levels. • Demonstrated ability to drive business growth through both incremental improvements and breakthrough innovation. Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity. At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas. #J-18808-Ljbffr