Infrastructure Technical Project Manager

Unleash Your Potential at L'Oréal's Beauty Tech!

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: Beauty. Present in 150 countries across five continents and with €42 billion consolidated sales, L'Oréal is the global industry leader. With 37 global beauty brands across four divisions, L’Oréal offers beauty for each covering all beauty categories and catering to all beauty desires. With the acquisition of the Australian brand Aēsop in 2023, the Group continues to expand its portfolio through targeted acquisitions as part of its drive to create the future of beauty.

Today, L’Oréal includes more than 2,000 tech positions and is constantly growing. Beauty Tech is changing the game and leading the shift towards new consumer realities and a digital disruption. Championing Beauty Tech, we invent the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.

Beauty Tech is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. Beauty Tech equips the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic. With this ambition, L’Oréal continues to recruit diverse, innovative, skilled and passionate minds in different tech domains such as Data, Digital, Cloud, Cyber Security, IT Architecture, DevOps, Applications and Infrastructure.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM

The Group Infrastructure team, composed of 70 persons, is based at the company's headquarter. It delivers products and services to the Business and to the Employees worldwide (in more than 70 countries). Infrastructure is everywhere, supporting applications execution and people collaboration.

You will join the team of Operations & Finance Infrastructure domain, in charge of accompanying Infrastructure initiatives, projects and run activities within the Operations & Finance applications scope. This Infrastructure “business platform domain” works in full collaboration with Infra Tech Domains to support our 36 factories and 158 distribution centers.

The team is composed of 3 people, a domain leader, a senior Service Delivery Manager and a senior architect.

What a day in the life of the Ops&Fin Infrastructure team looks like:

Missions

• You will be the named Infrastructure partner of key IT Business domains for their projects
• You will co-lead major and global initiatives across zones and countries
• You will be an Infrastructure representative for CIO Office & Transformation
• You will contribute actively to the evolution of L’Oréal Infrastructure standards ensuring their alignment with the IT strategy and their consistency across the Infrastructure organization
• You will ensure proper tracking and priorization of the demand management process, that aims to translate demands into Infrastructure requirements
• You will define and monitor the project plan (budget, KPI’s and metrics, activities, methodologies, resource and responsibilities allocation internal/external)
• You will coordinate and integrate the different contents and deliverables to ensure the overall consistency and coherence of the designed solution
• You will define the implementation strategy of the project and supervise the build and roll-out activities 
  
  

Main Contacts

• IT Business (Operations & Finance) project managers
• Infrastructure Technical Domains project managers (from Network, Cloud, Digital Workplace and Identity teams)
• Zones Infrastructure Project Managers
• CIO Officers & ITBM community
  
  

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED!

First and foremost, we love people that are curious, collaborative, eager to have an impact, proactive and who value innovation, autonomy, and team spirit.

Secondly, in this specific position, it will be important for you to have:

Experiences

• Minimum 5 years of experience as an IT Infrastucture leader, ideally with a background in the consumer goods industry. This experience should include a strong focus on infrastructure to ensure the consistency of solutions and alignment with the overall IT strategy.
  
  

Technical Skills

• Strong Infrastructure understanding, especially on Network technologies (WiFi, LAN, SD-WAN) and endpoints (PC, mobile)
• Ability to understand and facilitate technical discussions between IT business requesters and Infrastructure technical domains
• Knowledge of ITBM best practices, from demand to project process, to project KPIs and tasks follow-up
• Organize project work breakdown to facilitate workload estimate and resultant tracking
  
  

Languages

• Fluent communication skills in French & English (written and spoken) are essential for effective collaboration with international teams, stakeholders, and external partners
  
  

Interpersonal Skills

• Excellent communication skills to purposefully challenge ideas and needs, bring teams together
• Curious about the use-cases behind technical requests
• Responsiveness and a keen sense of task prioritization
• Proactive, autonomously improving
• Ability to navigate a matrix organization (many stakeholders from group, zones, IT and Business)
• Summarization skills for executive presentation of complex projects
  
  

LET US GIVE YOU 6 OTHER REASONS TO JOIN US!

Joining L'Oréal Means Joining a Company That

• Invests in Tech and positions its Tech teams at the heart of its digital transformation strategy.
• Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate and to build our future.
• Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home
• Provides many benefits: VIP staff shop offering our products at a preferential rate, a company restaurant & gym, 60% reimbursement of transportation subscription, a work council offering lots of employee discounts (social & cultural activities, holiday vouchers etc.) and much more!
• Delivers a powerful and innovative HR policy: dynamic mobility policy, significant investment in employee training, regular re-evaluation of remuneration, numerous innovative HR measures: Time Savings Account, paternity leave, Citizen Day, etc.
• Is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.
  
  

GOOD TO KNOW: THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

• Interview with a member of the Talent Acquisition team
• Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Interview with the business leader
  
  

We will be delighted to exchange with you!

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