Director, Head of Digital Transformation Metiers - Innovation & Product Development, L'Oreal Research & Innovation

Job Title Director - Head of Digital Transformation Metiers, Innovation & Product Development

Division: Research & Innovation

Location: Clark, NJ

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, Research & Innovation is a vast, multidisciplinary, scientific community working in more than 30 specialized fields, spread out across the world in 21 research centers across 6 regional hubs, 14 evaluation centers, and 49 scientific and regulatory departments. Our employees represent over 60 nationalities and are united for one passion: to invent and perfect innovative, high-performance cosmetic products for the well-being of men and women across the world. Research & Innovation is at the core of our transformation! Come join our dynamic team!

What You Will Do:

L’Oréal is looking for a talented and experienced Director of Digital Adoption. He/she is passionate about transforming people through technology and change management. You love research and are current on all the latest advancements in Technology, Data visualization and Analytics, machine learning, design of experiments, regression predictive modellings (physico-chemistry, sensory, consumer, etc.,), clinical studies methodologies, and care about seeing your research make it into products.

You are resourceful, self-motivated and pride yourself on your creativity and ability to design elegant solutions to challenging situations.

You communicate well, love working in a global company, appreciate a multicultural workplace, and animate a community of digital mindset citizen.

Key Responsibilities:

• Carries and implements the digital vision on the 4 dimensions inside the Business in North America and is responsible for the value of the end-to-end initiatives led by Métiers in US.
• Understand and work with Global métiers CDTO & team to align and prioritize Initiatives and represents his/her zone in global prioritization working closely with NA CDTO
• Build the strategy and roadmap for digital transformation of Métiers in North Americas in collaboration with global Métiers & North Americas CDTOs
• Prioritize Agile Use Case (Epics) in coordination with Initiative Owners and impacted Product teams
• Align with others CDTOs to prioritize and launch Agile Use Case to be built by the Functional Platform
• Enable and lead Data Strategy in Métiers North Americas – consistent with the global R&I Data Strategy and Governance
• Enabling change by leading Onboarding and Upskilling Programs for Métiers in North Americas
• Ensure Users adoption of new ways of working – people transformation and adoption of new tools and processes within the métiers in North America.
• Ensure continuous relevance of new tools, ways of working and feedback loop for the métiers locally by integrating the relevant global initiatives.

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Post-graduate degree in science with experience in technology, or business analysis or change management
• At least 4+ years of relevant experience working in consumer or beauty industry
• Hands on experience with laboratory doing research or developing products.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills, ability to tackle challenging situations and ability to push back business to produce stepwise solutions
• Experience in data management and data analytics
• Must be eligible to work in the US on an ongoing and continuous basis without the need for sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Independent, ability to work autonomously and manage priorities, and retaining a collaborative and inclusive approach with others
• Ability to work in a global organization and its interdependency between global & local entities
• Ability to lead a community of data citizen
• Cross-cultural functioning approach
• Proactive, multitasking and solution oriented
• Self-starter with initiative and desire to learn
• Great communicator, able to convince, understand the needs.

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)  
• 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!

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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