KEY JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Supervise laboratory operations to ensure the prompt availability of quality products for businesses that are safe and effective, suitable for mass production, in line with the brand/category innovation strategy. Ensure launch commitments are met with regard to lead times and costs.
• Ensure the quality, safety and performance of products; provide, validate and enhance information used for product pitches Anticipate product/brand requirements, factoring in technological innovation, consumer perception and market demand
• Suggest cross-disciplinary innovation strategies within the business line; monitor and maintain the catalogue of running formulas 
• Provide monitoring in your field of expertise and develop your internal and/or external network 
• Sell businesses innovative technologies to market groundbreaking products, meet specific demand and build technical territory for brands
• Manage lab operations by optimising resources, defining and respecting launch conditions, coordinating activities with support departments in France and abroad, issuing updates on any risks and ensuring product availability in line with commitments 
• Ensure the safety of people/assets and compliance with quality procedures 
• Recruit, develop and manage teams; ensure the development of know-how and expertise and contribute to organisational development

PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

SCIENTIFIC/TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE 

• Transforms scientific/technical knowledge into inventions and innovations.
• Creates actives, technologies and products to maximize the perceived performance. 
• Interprets results in the most relevant way and communicates them with integrity
• Continuously develops expertise and researches new technologies or methods. Shares and passes on scientific/technical expertise.
• Leverage digital to accelerate innovation, to open new areas of performance and develop connected cosmetic.

 CREATIVITY INSPIRED BY CONSUMERS

• Develops knowledge of consumers in all their diversity. 
• Proposes creative ideas or scientific concepts based on consumer insights 
• Translates consumer/market insights into outstanding product performance goals.

 ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR INNOVATION

• Generates big concepts or technologies
• Takes risks to create radical or disruptive innovation and manages them in an effective way 
• Maximizes major innovation projects, prioritizes and simplifies. 
• Ensures compliance with quality, safety and sustainability.

COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION

• Shares the vision and translates it into effective goals
• Acts with a local and global perspective to achieve the multipolar innovation goals 
• Promotes collaboration among functions to ensure collective performance 
• Fosters dialogue with the business and brands to transform innovation into big market opportunities.

L'ORÉAL COMPETENCIES

• INNOVATOR
• STRATEGIST
• PEOPLE DEVELOPER 
• INTEGRATOR 
• ENTREPRENEUR

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, medical condition or disability. We adhere to all local Labour Relations legislation.