L’Oréal, the world leader in cosmetics, is synonymous with beauty, innovation and scientific excellence in more than 130 countries. As the leader in the beauty industry, our success is a direct result of our unequaled employees. L’Oréal is always looking for talented and ambitious minds to help build our beauty into something even better. Leadership also means innovation and quality. We offer the most technologically advanced products to our customers and a portfolio of brands in every product category. L’Oréal fully encompasses all aspects of beauty for everyone, everywhere.

L’Oréal's Research and Innovation division employs more than 4,000 people across 5 hubs (United States, Japan, China, India and Brazil) with a world center in France, 23 research centers and 16 evaluation centers around the world. Working in some thirty disciplines, more than half of these employees are doctors or engineers, and they are responsible for 624 patents registered in 2013.

As Expert in Material Informatics, you will be supporting metiers with data analytics focusing on machine learning model development and with new technology solutions for raw material development. This role would play a crucial part to develop our innovative cosmetics products – would be good for someone who is looking for a new challenge and disruptive innovation. 

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YOU WILL…

…lead mainly the following four areas of expertise:

• Leading and/or supporting projects with external partners related to Materials informatics and transform the deliverables to the internal asset.
• Providing technical support to internal projects and activities utilizing Materials Informatics and Data Science approach to accelerate the project progress and to leverage the level of achievement.
• Bridging new technological concept of Materials Informatics with the internal stakeholders (lab members, data science team) with collaborative way
• Training researchers and managers to enable them to use and implement Materials Informatics approach

YOU HAVE...

…..strong background in the following areas of knowledge (HARD SKILLS)

• Programming/Scripting Languages (i.e. Python) 
• MSc or PhD with minimum of 3 years of professional experiences in R&D or equivalent experience
• Materials Science and/or computational Materials science of inorganic materials, soft matters (polymers, formula, etc.)
• Statistics and Machine learning which are necessary for data science approach
• Fluent or native in English. Conversational level in Japanese is a plus.

YOU ARE...

…..someone who demonstrate (SOFT SKILLS)

• Outgoing scientists with strong convictions and motivation to be shared with other scientists within our company
• Entrepreneurship; willing to transform disruptive innovation to real products
• Open minded; willing to learn totally new things, outside of current expertise.

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