The role

Salary range - $60,000 - $63,000

Hello beauty experts! Are you ready for a new challenge? Look no further than our Beauty Editor & Strategist role here in New York.

This exciting position offers you the opportunity to join WGSN's world-class global content team where you'll research, write, and create forecasts that help our beauty clients succeed and stay ahead of the curve. 

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow 

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow. 

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you. 

Role overview 

As a Beauty Editor & Strategist, you'll have an excellent knowledge of the global beauty industry, an instinctive eye for trends, and be able to provide top-notch insight and strategic direction on products, design and consumer trends. Additionally, you will be an advocate for sustainability, diversity, and inclusivity in all our content. 

While we know you’re a beauty pro, we're looking for someone with specific expertise in one of the following categories: professional beauty & wellness, colour cosmetics, or haircare, either as a new product developer, buyer, beauty editor, or trend forecaster. You'll also be able to see the bigger picture and apply your expert insight across all categories. You'll also be comfortable using data to inform your work and interpreting that data to inform forecasts. 

Reporting to the Head of Beauty, you'll work with a global team of strategists and analysts to create best-in-class content - including social and video - and also collaborate with the wider WGSN content team on x-industry content and projects. And finally, you’ll also support our account managers, sales and marketing teams. 

If this sounds like you, we can't wait to have you on board.

Key accountabilities

• Use WGSNs STEPIC methodology combined with your industry expertise and foresight to identify trends and signals of change around the world and create strategic forecasts across consumer, product, ingredients, design and sustainability. 

• Work with a team of strategists and analysts on forecast ideation, creation, editing and scheduling 

• Developing and supporting the beauty team through 1:1s, coaching and training. 

• Champion equality, diversity, inclusion and sustainability in our culture and content. 

• Working across WGSN’s content verticals and business functions, collaborating on ideation, content creation and strategy. 

• Create and deliver presentations, videos and webinars, and deliver internally and externally. 

• Act as an ambassador for WGSN by speaking at trade shows and events.. You will be a go-to industry resource for our team and our clients. 

• Work with WGSN commercial teams to build and maintain strong client relationships and drive new business.

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

• Able to demonstrate a deep understanding of the beauty industry across multiple markets and categories and/or specific category expertise. 

• Ideally, you will have experience in either NPD, buyer, trend forecasting or be from an editorial background, and have a good base knowledge of brands, products, ingredients, innovations and manufacturing. 

• Exceptional knowledge of the global beauty market around consumer behaviour, generational shifts and retail shifts across the industry. 

• Strong level of ability in writing, editing and reporting. 

• An understanding of the role data and analytics play in commercial success. Ability to work and interrogate qualitative and quantitative data to extract meaningful insights. 

• Excellent organisation, communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work within an international team to ensure production standards, reports or outputs are of a consistently high standard and submitted on time. (please note the team is based in multiple time zones) 

• Able to navigate across cultures, English fluent. Fluency in other languages is an advantage.

• Solid years of experience. 

• Good working knowledge of Adobe software, keynote an advantage. 

What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:  

•  Paid Time Off – 15 days of vacation per year with an additional day for each year of service up to 20 days.  WGSN also observes the 12 Federal holidays.  We also offer 6 weeks of paid Parental Leave. 

• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan – allows employees to save and invest for their own retirement on a tax deferred basis. WGSN matches 50% of the first 6% contributed by employees.   

• Medical, Dental and Vision plans with Aetna 

• Life Insurance, AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability - all eligible employees receive coverage at no cost.

• Mental Health – WGSN provides many ways for employees to access mental health care including an Employee Assistance Program and inpatient, outpatient and virtual care if enrolled in an Aetna medical plan.