L'Oréal R&I - Advanced Research - Beauty Supplements Innovation Manager
Within the R&I Advanced Research department, the New Frontiers of Science team is shaping the future of beauty through cutting-edge science and holistic innovation. This role drives our nutricosmetics and beauty supplements strategy, bridging advanced nutritional science, microbiota research, and skin/hair biology (including the gut-skin/hair axis) to create breakthrough oral and topical solutions that deliver unprecedented performance leaps for consumers.
Missions
1. Scientific Foundation – Innovation Strategy – Vision
- Identify untapped market opportunities by bridging consumer beauty needs with scientific advancements in nutrition to establish the nutricosmetic active ingredient innovation strategy, capitalizing on all internal and external ecosystems; aligned with the R&I and Group strategy.
- Establish scientific rationales for both topical and oral administration pathways, as well as their synergies, to meet brand needs and achieve an unprecedented leap in skin/hair benefit performance.
- Conduct prospective intelligence (horizon scanning) on emerging ingredients, dosages, delivery formats (gummies, powders, capsules, shots), and regulatory evolutions.
2. Screening, Technological Acceleration, Efficacy Demonstration, and Market Transformation Leadership
- Lead and coordinate multidisciplinary teams involved in scouting, design, digital screening (predictive tools, AI) coupled with an in vitro / in vivo biological/clinical screening architecture to identify the most relevant and market-ready solutions (ingredients, bacterial strains, plant extracts, synergies while integrating regulatory constraints, costs, timelines, etc.).
- Demonstrate the scientific added value of proposed beauty supplements at the molecular and cellular levels, including the GUT-SKIN axis, to support innovative and high-performance "Beauty Supplements" concepts with perceptible skin/hair benefits for consumers.
- Drive an ambitious IP strategy to preempt high-value-added technologies.
- Demonstrate the performance leap and efficacy of oral formulas (complementing topical formulas) as perceived by consumers.
- Propose the implementation of new ways of innovating, including the activation of all internal and external ecosystems, to feed a short- and long-term innovation pipeline aligned with business needs and market realities.
- Guarantee the anticipation and securing of key transformation milestones, including industrialization and the economic equation tied to efficacy to facilitate time-to-market.
- Ensure global regulatory compliance, country-specific deployment claims, and the robustness of safety dossiers for the proposed ingredients, strains, and extracts.
What we are Looking For :
- Dual Scientific and Business Background linked to the dietary supplements market
- PhD or Scientific Master's degree in Nutrition/Health (including Biology, Microbiology, Biotechnology) complemented by training or significant experience in Business / Innovation Management.
- Experience
- Minimum 7 to 10 years of experience in the dietary supplements industry in an interface role (applied R&D, Scientific Support to Brands, Scientific Innovation Project Manager).
- Proven successful experience in end-to-end dietary supplement launches on the market is essential.
- Confirmed experience in alliance management and external partnership management.
- Key Skills
- Deep and proven knowledge of the complete end-to-end process from idea to market for dietary supplements across all dimensions (scientific rationale, ingredient novelty, regulatory, IP, scale-up, claims, costs, key partners, etc.).
- Excellent scientific culture in microbiota, nutrition, skin biology, and hair biology.
- Key scientific knowledge on ingredients/dietary supplements and the gut microbiome (knowledge of the GUT-SKIN/HAIR axis is essential).
- Perfect understanding of the market state-of-the-art (players and ingredients). High sensitivity to performance leaps driven by Science.
- Real-time awareness of the latest ingredient innovations in the dietary supplement market. Ability to make scientifically relevant proposals in an agile mode for rapid market launch.
- Complete mastery of the complexity of regulatory constraints, safety, and permissible claims depending on the nature of the ingredients and countries concerned in the dietary supplements field.
- Total mastery of collaboration models between large international groups and strong persuasive power in bilateral strategic discussions.
- Ability to simplify complex concepts for non-scientific stakeholders. Ease in communicating challenges clearly and concisely for rapid strategic decision-making.
- Strong business and IP orientation, with a keen sense for consumer claims.
- Acute sense of multidisciplinary interaction and inspirational leadership to mobilize matrixed teams. Ease in managing the complexity of multipolar organizations in an international context.
- Dual capability to manage technical details in parallel when interacting with experts while maintaining a strategic vision to communicate to Top Management.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Fluent English is essential.
What’s In It For You
Life's too short for a boring career. That’s why at L’Oréal, you’re not just starting a job; you’re starting an adventure. You’ll be encouraged to take risks, challenge the status quo, and leave your mark on some of the world’s most iconic beauty brands. Forget the sidelines—here, you're in the driver's seat of your career from day one.
- A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
- Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal.
- An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference.
Who We Are
L’Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to ‘Create beauty that moves the world’; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.
At L’Oréal Research & Innovation we are pushing the boundaries of Science & Tech. We invest heavily in cutting-edge research, leveraging advanced technologies to understand skin, hair, and microbiome, while discovering new active ingredients and launching outperforming formulas. Our 4,100 L'Oréal R&I experts leverage Science & Technology to invent safe, trustable, sustainable & responsible beauty products and experiences that will change people’s lives.
We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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