Job Title:  Senior Manager, Quality Control Lab

Division: CPD/PPD/LDB

Location: Florence, KY

Reports To: Quality Director

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. Come join our dynamic team!

What You Will Do:

The laboratory manager should have good management skills and be well organized as the manager is responsible for managing all activities of the laboratory. Responsible to support the Unit of Production (UP) centers to control incoming components, raw material, bulk and finished goods.  Works with the process expert, the UP, sourcing, flows, and logistics.  

Functions:

• Fully Supports an interdependent safety and quality culture and works proactively to the site master plan to achieve the safety and quality goals
• Leads a team of supervisors, chemists, technicians and encourages 100% employee engagement
• Knows and understand L’Oreal rules and enforces them
• Understands and proficient in methods and trains and ensures compliance among the team
• Looks for opportunities to improve the productivity in the labs to become more efficient
• Troubleshoots non-conformances in components, bulk, raw materials, and finished goods to ensure the root cause of the issue is fixed
• Support for Audits (understand good manufacturing practices, L’Oreal policies and procedures, reporting, and training)
• Perform other duties as necessary

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in major technical discipline, chemistry / micro preferred or equivalent experiences
• 10 plus years of related experience in a manufacturing setting
• Technical Skills in SAP, MS Office, Inventory Management
• Physical requirements of the role (sitting, standing, twisting, bending, physical in-office presence)

As an integral part of our culture at L’Oréal, wellness is at our core. We not only offer a generous Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K), we also offer flexible time off, work from home days, and a pension plan! Additionally, you will have access to company perks such as Makeup, Skincare, and Fragrance! Employees receive a stipend for L'Oréal products as well as VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, and other perks such as Monthly Mobile Allowance, discounted gym memberships, and ERGs.

Additional Benefits Information As Follows:

• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)  
• 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!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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Our Safe Together Plan: Your safety is our highest priority. We will proceed with caution and adhere to enhanced protection standards to ensure our sites are safe for all employees. We must all operate with the shared responsibility for each other’s health & safety in mind.