Sweet success: Inside Neutrogena President Susan Sweet’s career
Susan Sweet, 47, president and general manager of Neutrogena. Photo by Melanie Acevedo, More Magazine Susan Sweet knew from college that she wanted to be a brand manager of a global product. She wanted her parents to walk into a grocery store and be able to say, “My daughter did that.” “I’ve been a workaholic since college,” said the 47-year-old Manhattan Beach resident, with both a BlackBerry and an iPhone face up in front of her. “I put my career, my work, my job as a top priority.” Sweet is the president and general manager of Neutrogena, whose products are used by one in three women in the U.S. each year. The Los Angeles-based skin care company has 650 employees coast to coast and boasts $1.5 billion in annual sales. “She is your consummate Fortune 500 career business woman,” said Bill Bloomfield, a 33rd Congressional District candidate, and Sweet’s significant other. At the South Bay Conference for Women in April, at which Sweet was a keynote speaker, she pointed out to a crowd of 400 that while women constitute 47 percent of the U.S. labor force, they only make up 3.4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs. “She’s very concerned about equal treatment of women in the corporate world,”…
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