The world leader in cosmetics, L’Oréal is present in 150 countries on five continents. Our 37 international brands have allowed us to devote ourselves solely to one business: beauty, with a mission to provide the best in cosmetics innovation to all women and men globally. Our ambition is to win over another one billion consumers around the world by inventing the cosmetic products that meet the infinite diversity of their needs and desires through continued digital innovation. L’Oréal supports diversity and sustainable, ethical sourcing for all our products, and we have reduced our emissions by approx. 78% since 2005.

The DNA of L’Oréal is Innovation and we are driven by a real passion for the future. Our Research and Innovation Centres in India are the sixth innovation hub for L’Oréal worldwide to fuel local market innovations. The distance between beauty and tech is closing rapidly, and we are determined to be pioneers in this new beauty tech world. New digital technologies and services are making the world of beauty move faster than ever before. Data and artificial intelligence are opening new horizons for personalization and customization. By incorporating digital into everything that we do, we are creating a better relationship with our consumers.

With several billion units produced, the Operations Department is at the heart of the group's performance and is one of its major levers. Working in Operations at L'Oréal means working in a dynamic and diverse environment, with opportunities for functional mobility and an international career. A wide range of training courses, motivating responsibilities and highly varied assignments will enable you to learn and develop.

In our journey, we are looking for talented individuals who can lead us on this mission.

Would you like to be a part of the adventure?

We have a suitable opening in the Operations – Sourcing department for the role of Category Sourcing Manager - Upstream Packaging, SAPMENA & North Asia, based in Mumbai. 

What is Sourcing?

Sourcing is part of the extended value chain of L'Oréal. Our role is to understand our business needs, source the best ecosystem, develop suppliers’ partnerships and reinvent our ways of working in a responsible and innovative way.

As we say in L’Oréal, we need to seize what is starting and transform it to create the beauty that moves the world finding the best partners by our side along the way.

What is Direct Sourcing?

Direct sourcing is related to the manufacture of cosmetic products (raw materials, packaging, subcontracting, augmented beauty).

What is the Category Team?

The category teams’ role is to gather internal needs and extended ecosystem opportunities and risks, to build strategy on category of purchases, to build and guide the roadmap of implementation of this strategy with internal and external stakeholders and is responsible for the Supplier Relationship management of our strategic partners. 

Your key responsibility will be to build the strategy on your categories under the Worldwide 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'Oréal 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!

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• 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 worldwide strategy on the category with close collaboration with the related worldwide & 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 supplier’s 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

PROFESSIONAL & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

• Minimum 15 years of relevant working experience.
• Leadership to onboard teams, stakeholders and supplier on complex projects and roadmaps
• Ability to present results to top management
• Strong communication skills 
• Curiosity, and analytical skills, both on data and markets & trends
• Ability to leverage Supplier relationship to match the Responsiveness & Sustainability ambitions
• Experience in Sourcing, especially on managing a scope from the strategic point of view
• Skills on risk management and contract management
• Strong team spirit and ability to work in multifunctional and international teams
• Negotiation skills and ability to influence

L’ORÉAL COMPETENCIES:

• Innovator 
• Strategist 
• People developer 
• Integrator 
• Entrepreneur

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

• Direct Reportees - 0
• Internal Stakeholders – Global Sourcing team, Packaging, Product Development , Manufacturing teams, Contract Manufacturing
• External Stakeholders – Supplier ecosystem

TRAVEL REQUIRED: Travel based on project requirements.

L’Oréal is committed to building a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. L’Oréal closely prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.