Senior Manager Sourcing Packing Material Contract Manufacturing (Remote)

Job description / Role

The world leader in cosmetics

L’Oréal is present in 150 countries on five continents. Our 36 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 approximately 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. In our quest to win the next billion consumers, 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 sourcing department for the role of Senior Manager Sourcing Business Team Packing Material & Contract Manufacturing – SAPMENA (South Asia, Pacific, Middle East, North Africa) zone, based in Mumbai.

Scope

Driving and delivering below key job responsibilities for business associated with packing material and sourcing aspect of contract manufacturing.

Job Responsibilities

Contribution to the business growth

• Anticipates business activity and acts proactively: anticipate major evolution of needs.
• Propose the most valuable option involving internal and external network/resources. Use VA methodology as a part of the culture of need expression.
• Manages performance and efficiency: be accountable for purchasing performance. Support functional improvements for processes and tools. Ensure data quality.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of financial process: basic financial or accounting rules, structure and purchasing part, L’Oréal financial activity rules (rebates, fees, drivers). Analyze the impact of choices/tariffs in a plant P&L.
• Formulate recommendations based on supplier P&L analysis or L’Oréal/Brand P&L. Anticipate risks and opportunities.
• Driving and facilitating L4TF commitments with the strategic suppliers.

Create value and optimize costs, quality & service on the total value chain

• Optimize costs: improve the cost model through a good knowledge of supplier process, lead and implement productivity projects, apply and use TCO (Total Cost of Ownership).
• Master the supplier cost models and upstream markets, run internal and external benchmarking.
• Build cost forecast for a category, share and control assumptions for budget construction. Manage KPIs; build continuous improvement strategy for financial and non-financial KPIs.
• Support transversal optimization and agility of the whole value chain in close collaboration with the suppliers and internal stakeholders: plants, packaging, supply chain, quality and development teams.
• Support and manage stakeholders’ relationships: communicate/manage projects/share suppliers’ information with stakeholders, influence stakeholders. Drive and grow purchasing share of voice among stakeholders.

Maximize supplier relationship

• Build an integrated ecosystem with our suppliers.
• Create a preferred customer relationship with strategic suppliers.
• Drive supplier performance improvements based on five pillars: CSR, quality, service, innovation, competitiveness.
• Organize and gather market knowledge, propose action plans to benefit from market opportunities. Drive changes in the market structure.

Risk management

• Control risks and operate responsibly.
• Operate according to internal control principles and legal rules.
• Evaluate and manage risks: apply risks policy and tools, propose and lead actions plan.
• Negotiate with integrity: use innovative negotiation levers.

Key L’Oréal competencies

• Innovator
• Strategist
• People developer
• Integrator
• Entrepreneur

Key relationships

• Direct/Indirect reportees – 2
• Internal stakeholders – Product development, packaging, zone teams, factories, R&I and global teams
• External stakeholders – Suppliers, auditing agencies

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering / Graduate in chemistry / Post-graduate from packaging institute
• MBA preferable

Professional experience & skills

• Knowledge of packing material, their manufacturing processes and printing technologies.
• Working in the FMCG sector, good understanding of market and suppliers.
• Maintains a high standard of integrity, working with a cooperative attitude.
• Excellent stakeholder skills and ideally previous experience working in a matrix organization.
• Strong knowledge of project management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent leadership skills and multitasking abilities.
• A talent for resolving conflicts and problems.
• To be fluent in English.

Travel required

Travel will be needed based on requirement.

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.

About the Company

For more than a century, we have devoted our energy and our competencies solely to one business: beauty. We have chosen to offer our expertise in the service of women and men worldwide, meeting the infinite diversity of their beauty desires. We are committed to fulfilling this mission ethically and responsibly.