What is NEO?

NEO is a major Group global program decided by L’Oréal Executive Committee, that will create common, simplified, and harmonized ways of working enabling the group to operate cross-functional processes in its Plants, Countries, Zones & Divisions. By optimizing processes among divisions, NEO will allow L’Oréal to support the go-to-market initiatives in a more consumer centric and agile way, while improving the user experience and workloads for the teams. Laying the foundation for “Beauty Tech”, NEO will contribute to the Group performance, by leveraging data, and help transform L’Oréal into a “smart company”.

Job Summary:

Within this major IT and Business Transformation Program, the SAP Supply planning & Execution Solution expert will be responsible for providing the technical expertise and knowledge required for solution design and integration. Solution has to be integrated into the application ecosystem with a robust and sustainable architecture ensuring we stay within a standard system with as little customization as possible, in order to achieve efficiency in a modern, world-class solution with a user-centric mindset.

The IT Solution expert is responsible for collaborating within Forecast to Stock team as an IT with strong expertise preferably with S/4 Hana experience. This role involves leading discussions on IT and Business solutions working in an Agile environment with strong relationships with others on the team.

Responsibilities and Duties

·       Relationship Management - Business facing staff member responsible for understanding requirements, scope and solution definition.

·       Building and maintaining strong relationships with business partners, IT colleagues and external resources to foster teamwork and employ resources effectively.

·       Analyze the impact of proposed solutions on the domain processes.

·       Customize/configure applications, prepare functional tests and endorse responsibility for validating developments before application roll out.

·       Deliver the functional specifications of the applications.

·       Manage ongoing relationships with internal clients giving regular updates on developments and improvements.

·       Participate in Daily meetings with the project team as the project is managed in Agile way.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of IT project implementation experience, with SAP projects
• Proven track record of reengineering process, fit-gap analysis and solution provider
• Excellent negotiation skills with key business users and within IT
• Strong Experience working with MM and Supply planning functionalities (Purchase orders, triangular flow, inbound deliveries management…)
• Experience in technical integration with other systems is expected (interfaces based on Idocs, flat files with multiple legacy or external systems…)
• Knowledge & experience on SAP quality & stock management is a plus,  
• Knowledge in Supply planning tools such as APO or IBP is a plus,
• Knowledge in subcontracting & manufacturing processes is a plus, 
• Basic knowledge in API integration is a plus,
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills: Negotiation & Interpersonal Relations, Autonomy, Professional Presence, Innovation / Creativity, Proactive Communication with global teams.