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TITLE: Senior Manager, Product Development, NOE/OD
Hello, we’re L’Oréal. We're not just building brands; we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it). Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.
As the Product Development Manager on OD, Make up and NOE (Network of Excellence) you will have two main responsibilities:
1/ Manage a portfolio of projects within Operations, as Brand business partner, and in collaboration with R&I, with an overall vision of the finished product (pack, formula, process...), in compliance with commitments made with the Brands, by ensuring global responsibility for the project (timing, gross margin, L4TF, perceived value, innovation, quality).
2/ Drive transversal projects across the SAPMENA Zone to the Packaging, Development and C&A community in the area of EXCELLENCE, DATA & TECH, and SUSTAINABILITY. You will be in very close contact with the DGO (Direction General of Operation), to understand the global frames, processes, guidelines and deploy them locally. You will also be responsible to report back to DGO the status and progress from the zone.
Job Responsibilities:
- MAKE-UP/OPEN-DEVELOPMENT
- Study the feasibility of new briefs and advise marketing, by providing optimized solutions (pack, formula, process) as part of a consumer-centric and perceived-value approach.
- Formalize and validate the technical translation of the marketing brief, in compliance with the QCP system, including validation and monitoring of Autocoms.
- Implement and conduct product risk analysis where necessary.
- Prepare, distribute and ensure the monitoring of schedules. Show flexibility to speed up development and activate lead time improvement levers
- Prepare, distribute, and ensure the follow-up of prices estimates; discuss the gross margin and report dilutive projects.
- Contribute to the design-to-value approach by suggesting appropriate value-analysis actions (packaging, process, formulas) and by deploying validated actions.
- Create, distribute, and optimize SPOT ID Cards
- Discuss and build, together with the brands, the L4TF roadmaps and ensure they are monitored.
- Mobilize actors involved in the project and the necessary experts and ensure appropriate reminders are sent out.
- Report regularly on the progress of projects, report deviations (definition, scheduling, price, L4TF commitments) and suggest solutions, manage/coordinate multidisciplinary projects (process, tools, formulas, etc.)
- Help Brands prepare launch plans by incorporating profitability, scheduling, leadtime, quality, and L4TF challenges.
- Develop your knowledge of the market/competition as part of a category-based approach
- Understand specific Supply-Chain flows and processes and facilitate their activation throughout the projects
- Ensure data quality through regular updates in the different tools : Magellan, MINDS, SPOT, TAG
- NOE (Network of Excellence)
- Analyse and identify teams upskilling needs
- Plan and prepare trainings for team upskilling on all PACK&DEV tools and processes
- Follow closely with DGO changes and evolutions and implement them locally
- Lead the AMPLIFY catalogue management process: in contact with Zone Regulatory team, S&OP, R&I and Product development, frame and direct the execution of formula replacement and/or artwork compliance change
- Support and facilitate Group transformation projects such as SPEED and Simplification
- Manage tools training, upskilling, network of LKU, problem resolution for Magellan, MINDS, SPOT ID Card, TAG, Compack, etc
- Drive the PACK&DEV activities linked to factory WISE implementation
- Support AI acceleration
- Participate in L4TF project transformation
To succeed in this position, you:
- An academic background in Engineering and an MBA, with 5–7 years of prior work experience.
- Are a driving force for all organizational and process improvements
- Lead your development projects with rigor, aiming for operational excellence
- Are able to obtain information from experts in a meaningful way to anticipate and manage risks
- Optimize the management of your projects by providing, at the right moment, the inputs needed for decision-making
- Understand and takes cognisance of Brand strategy (quality, profitability, quality level, etc.) and the challenges faced by Operation
- Develop optimized solutions (value for money, timescale, sustainability) to meet MKT expectations in accordance with operations strategy
- Identify brands innovation needs and push innovative solutions (packaging innovation, process, formula)
- Demonstrate knowledge of the technical areas on your activity: packaging, formula, manufacturing and packaging processes, supply
- Understand l'Oréal's organizations, its Corporate Social Responsibilities and its design quality system.
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 on a scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.
Our daring Operations team of thousands of exceptional minds don’t just work on complex challenges; They help create sustainable and inclusive beauty alongside our partners by crafting, innovating, sourcing, producing, and delivering millions of products and services that touch every corner of the globe.
The Consumer Products Division is on a mission to democratize beauty at its best. That means celebrating the diverse beauty of humanity and engaging the maximum number of people worldwide while elevating the mass beauty market with premium innovations. Our aspirational brands are at the forefront, inspiring and capturing consumer desires across regions and beauty categories. We have powerful, industry-leading brands like L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Maybelline New York, NYX Professional Makeup, and more.
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.