Manager of Supply Chain Analytics Product - L'Oreal Information Technology

Job Title: Supply Chain Analytics Product Manager

Division: Corporate Division 

Location: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 

Reports To: Director, Supply Chain Analytics - IT 

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, our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all our business sectors by imagining new ways of doing things, from designing websites to building algorithms and predicting new trends. They can be found leading teams towards a more connected and digitalized future in IT retail, e-commerce, CRM, data, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud and E-Marketing. You never stop learning at L'Oréal IT because things change at the speed of light! Come join our dynamic team!

L’Oréal is in search of a supply chain business analyst expert to scale our business-critical supply chain analytics product. This analytics capability is to enhance our Supply Chain's ability to track performance & quickly identify, eventually predict, opportunities to deliver more value in a dynamic environment. It has accelerated LUSA level planning analytics used across divisions. You, as our ideal candidate will support the long-term strategy, direction, and vision of our Supply Chain Team by developing and implementing business solutions providing actionable insights and encouraging a data driven culture. This role will work to develop and support harmonized Business Intelligence tools and Analytics across Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Divisions(P&Ls) to facilitate greater accessibility to information and drive decisions at all levels of the Supply Chain organization and L’Oreal Leadership teams. You will play a key role in our transversal Supply Chain transformation to improve performance across North America. 

What You Will Learn:

• Work closely with the Product Owner and other business experts to document requirements and designs for reporting, analytics, and system interfaces as Epics and user stories 
• Use both supply chain and technical knowledge to bridge the gap between corporate data and Supply Chain business needs 
• Analyze data, business rules and data discrepancies, ensuring project deliverables are delivered in compliance with L’Oréal IT standards and methodologies. 
• Ensure new Supply Chain Data Lake development delivers strategic objectives for Supply Chain reporting and analytics. 
• Contribute to a Data Catalog, defining and educating on data definitions and lineage. 
• Be the subject matter expert to the engineering, quality and run teams, to ensure timely delivery of use cases 
• Ensure solution quality through high quality requirements and a robust testing process, including writing and executing test plans and scripts and coordinating user acceptance testing with business stakeholders 
• Understand system functional capabilities, including potential implications of systems changes. 
• Communicate product KPIs, issues, risks and overall program status proactively and thoroughly. 
• Build and develop relationships across the L’Oreal Americas zone. 
• Facilitate build and run issue resolution and communication by supporting service delivery and technical teams to minimize impact and accelerate resolution. 

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• BA/BS/MS/MIS degree, preferably in technical and/or business field (IT, Supply Chain, Analytics, etc.) or 3+ years of equivalent experience
• Strong data analytic skills, specifically SQL, Microsoft Excel using Power Query and Power Pivot and beginner-intermediate BI skills in tools such as PowerBI, Tableau etc. 
• Good Understanding of supply chain process specially planning & distribution, manufacturing and order fulfillment 
• Ability to work independently under little supervision within a fast paced client centric environment, manage priorities, and meet commitments 
• Self-motivated and results oriented 
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and lead functional groups towards alignment. 
• Ability to engage in healthy debates, effectively problem solve within a team environment, and demonstrate resiliency 
• Experience working in an environment with Agile values and principles. 

What’s In It For You:

• 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 for Career Progression (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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