Job Title: Senior Manager, Sourcing - North America Print & Corrugated Packaging Category
Division: Sourcing, L'Oréal Operations
Location: Clark, New Jersey
Who We Are:
For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.
At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain.
What You Will Learn:
As Senior Manager of Sourcing, Packaging, you will have the opportunity to develop and execute the sourcing strategy of Packaging (Folding cartons, corrugate, labels and flexible laminates & pouches) for the North America Zone.
Your key responsibility will be to build the strategy on your categories under the WW frame, to drive our suppliers to support our key stakes and to follow the roadmap of implementation through operational project or animation of stakeholders, in accordance with the Group's Sourcing policies and strategies.
In this role, you will have a great diversity of activities and will have the opportunity to deal with various stakeholders, from L’Oreal experts to Divisions. You will work with suppliers and organization of the ecosystem from all around the world. You will be able to learn, build your expertise, develop your extended ecosystem and unleash your potential!
Your main missions will:
- Be the global sourcing expert on your categories: global market analysis, identification of internal experts and external ecosystems and knowledge capitalization on technologies
- Analysis of the needs on the category on the global level and for all brands of the Group, in collaboration with business teams and internal stakeholders
- Co build and validate the WW strategy on the category with close collaboration with the related WW & regional category managers, the business teams and the L’Oreal experts
- Ensure the strategy roll out through communication to stakeholders, key projects implementation
- Supplier Relationship Management over the global or strategic regional suppliers
- Animate the supplier relationship for the global suppliers: Target business development, improvement of the performance of the supplier (competitiveness, Supply, Quality, Sustainability, innovation)
- Contractualization the main agreements: Master agreement, commercial agreement
- Manage the risk on your suppliers portfolio
- Market opportunities: watch and catch innovations and opportunities on the supplier market or technologies with a strong value-added potential for L’Oreal, on sustainability, responsiveness and/or competitiveness, scout new suppliers to meet the needs of your category,
- Contribute to continuous improvement and budget yearly exercise
What We Are Looking For:
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or greater in related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in Sourcing/Purchasing; preferable in the consumer goods industry
- 3-4+ years of experience in Packaging
- High degree of financial and analytical aptitude
- Self-starter with curiosity, strong negotiation and influencing experience
- Excellent communication skills with ability to handle various situations, multiple priorities, changing business needs as well as the diverse culture within L’Oreal and the supplier community
- Exceptional computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
What’s In It For You:
Salary Range: $107,600 – 153,300 (The actual compensation will depend on a
variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location, work
experience, education, and skill level)
- Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
- Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home)
- Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
- Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
- Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
- Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
- Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs
Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!
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