Manager, Sourcing - North America Print & Corrugated Packaging Category

L'Oreal • Clark, NJ

55d • Hybrid

About The Position

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. As Manager of Sourcing, Packaging, you will have the opportunity to develop and execute the sourcing strategy of Packaging (Folding cartons, corrugate, labels and flexible laminates & pouches) for the North America Zone. Your key responsibility will be to build the strategy on your categories under the WW 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'Oreal 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!

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or greater in related discipline
• 7+years of experiencein Sourcing/Purchasing;preferable in the consumer goods industry
• 3-4+ years of experience inPackaging
• High degree of financial and analytical aptitude
• Self-starter with curiosity, strongnegotiationandinfluencingexperience
• Excellent communication skillswith ability to handle various situations, multiple priorities, changing business needs as well as the diverse culture within L'Oreal and the supplier community
• Exceptional computerskills includingMicrosoftWord, Excel,Outlook,andPowerPoint

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 WW strategy on the category with close collaboration with the related WW & 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 yoursuppliersportfolio
• Market opportunities: watch and catch innovations and opportunities on the supplier market or technologies with a strongvalue-addedpotential forL'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

Benefits

• 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 toL'Oréal'sInternal 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Chemical Manufacturing