JOIN OUR PPD PURCHASING TEAMS! 

Behind every great brand is a great story.

At L’Oréal, ours began with a young entrepreneurial chemist, Eugène Schueller, producing and selling hair-dye from his kitchen. From these humble roots, we’re today a family of 88,000 employees, who collaborate across 150 countries and over 36 world renowned brands, with the goal of innovating and creating products that meet the infinite diversity of our consumers’ beauty needs and desires.

While inventing the future of beauty is our passion, we’re doing it with a strong commitment to sustainability and environment in everything we do. And our ambition is to be the #1 BeautyTech Company.

Fueling this roadmap is the Operations team at L’Oréal- 20,000 people strong, spread world-wide and orchestrating cutting-edge expertise across the entire value chain – from packaging and product devlopmeent to sourcing, manufacturing, and supply chain.

We are a bunch of very diverse individuals who absolutely love what we do and are excited by the real possibilities that data and technology are unlocking for us.

Joining L'Oréal means being a part of a company that:

1. Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate and to build the future.
2. Has chosen to uphold strong values regarding social and environmental points of view.
3. Is constantly at the fore front of technology to respond to consumer demands for agility, personalization and new beauty experiences.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A PART OF THIS ADVENTURE?

The Professional Product Division is the historical Division of L’Oreal, undergoing an unprecedented Transformation. Our Products are made by Experts for Experts, with Strong Brand Identities (L’Oréal Professionnel, Kerastase, Matrix, Redken, Mizzani etc.) in an Omnichannel distribution.

Join our PPD Purchasing teams in the capacity of a Packaging Buyer

The PPD Purchasing team at L’Oréal is looking for his new confirmed buyer 

To manage the L’Oreal Professionnal Portfolio.

L’Oreal Professionnal is a strategic & growing brand achieving 1B€ turnover. With a pioneering spirit, it invents game-changing innovations, powered by science, with an obsession for human safety and hair integrity. It anchors its deep hair expertise, in technical services, made by Pros, for Pros.

You will be working on a diversified perimeter, integrating 3 kinds of packaging product: Hair care, coloration, and styling with a WW coordination, covering a big range of packaging technologies, & developing an international ecosystem.

HERE’S HOW YOU WILL HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN IT:

- Analyzes needs and manages demand: collects, understands and challenges the needs of prescribers and promotes demand management.

- Applies the AV methodology and guarantees the required functional level at the best cost.

- Defines the purchasing strategy: Organizes and gathers the elements of market knowledge, proposes action plans developed to benefit from market opportunities.

- Optimizes costs: Improves the 'cost model' based on a good knowledge of the supplier process, identifies opportunities for improving the value chain. Manages and implements productivity projects.

- Anticipates business activity and acts proactively: Contributes to building, sharing and applying the category strategy. Capture supplier innovation – Secure the business growth with agility -responsiveness

- Maximize the supplier relationship: Define and develop a portfolio strategy, drive performance and analyze P&L, provide clear feedback and follow action plans.

- Creates value and innovates: Manages complex projects, develops and recommends the best options to secure projects identified as 'at risk' – Deploy the L’Oreal For The future program Roadmap

- Negotiates with integrity: uses appropriate negotiation techniques and tools.

- Operates in accordance with the principles of internal control and legal rules: implements the standard framework contract, proposes improvements and shares them with the legal department. Monitor contract compliance.

- Evaluates and manages risks: Applies the risk management policy and tools, proposes action plans, alerts the relevant prescribers.

- Drives performance and efficiency: Builds cost forecasts for a simple category, shares and verifies assumptions for budget construction.

- Animates its network of prescribers: Feeds the network with internal/external information, shares best practices, communicates / manages projects / shares supplier information with its prescribers.

- Contributes to the responsible purchasing policy: Applies the purchasing and procurement processes, follows the rules of internal control

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YOUR PROFILE

You are a graduate of a Business School / Engineering School / Bac +5 University.

You have 3 to 6 years of experience in a similar position

Hard skills

• Spirit of analysis and synthesis.
• Able to use negotiation techniques and tools.
• Technical skills in Packaging domain
• Able to communicate in English in a professional environment.

Soft skills:

• Proactivity and leadership - Intrapreuneurship
• Stakeholder management: Open to dialogue and creative, able to challenge the needs
• Business Partner

Management skills:

• intern or apprentice

BE PART OF THIS RIDE!

ONCE YOU DECIDE TO APPLY, HERE’S WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT…

1. Receiving an answer within 2 weeks of applying.
2. If your CV is selected, you will have an HR interview with one of our recruiters.
3. Post which, at least 2-3 rounds of technical discussions with the hiring team, as part of the overall process. 

If you had the opportunity to meet with a recruiter and we are unable to move forward with your application, you can expect to receive a prompt answer in one week with constructive feedback. We strongly value the time and energy you invest in us.

Looking for more information? Read further: https://careers.loreal.com

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.