R&I Project Manager (m/f), Ile De France

As a global leader and Beauty-Tech pioneer, we are looking for passionate talents who want to actively shape our success story. In a constantly changing world, we identify the latest trends, act data-driven, and develop innovations that merge beauty with technology.

Over 86.000 employees in over 150 markets commit themselves every day to turn our vision of a sustainable and forward-looking beauty industry into reality.

At L’Oréal, we live a culture of learning, personal development, and entrepreneurship. We offer our employees numerous opportunities to expand their skills, take responsibility, actively shape their careers, and thus have a positive impact. With our long history of innovation and our commitment to sustainability issues, we set standards for responsible entrepreneurship.

Key responsibilities

• Implements the appropriate OpenLab methodology and, with the project leader, ensures that the project team has the necessary technical, consumer and business skills.
• Plans the project with the project team and ensures the team aligns with deadlines, checks progress (achievement of milestones + production of deliverables) and carries out updates.
• Sets out the project budget taking into account the needs of the team, monitors the trend for all types of R&I costs (man-hours, OPEX, CAPEX, travel) with the project leader and the financial controller
• Performs project risk analysis and ensures that the mitigation plan is implemented with the team
• Plans and prepares workshops (logistics, theme, templates, agenda, report) Facilitates these project team meetings efficiently and creatively in a design thinking spirit. Structures, capitalizes on and shares the results of each workshop.
• Summarizes project management deliverables (planning, budget, risk) for reporting and decision making with management closely with the project leader
• Plays the role of facilitator to ensure a good level of cooperation and feedback within the team with the support of the project leader
• Coordinates the interfaces with the various R&I contributors from upstream to downstream following the guidelines of the transitions between the various fields (invention, discovery, application, development)

Skills

• FACILITATION: open-minded, curious, enjoys a challenge, creativity, shows conviction, comfortable with differing ideas, unites people around common objectives
• POSTURE: creates an inspiring, understanding atmosphere, encourages teamwork
• Results oriented, structured and organized, ability to summarize and see the big picture, complexity management
• English essential

DEVELOPS A PIONEERING SPIRIT

• Is able to make suggestions for all organizational and process improvements.
• In collaboration with the project leaders, identifies the innovation needs of the various fields and pushes innovative solutions

IS CUSTOMER FOCUSED

• Understands and integrates the various fields’ strategies and R&I issues
• Promotes optimized solutions (price, quality, sustainable development) to meet project leaders’ expectations while complying with the R&I strategy

CARRIES OUT HIS/HER ACTIVITIES QUICKLY AND EASILY SHOWING OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

• Leads projects with precision to achieve operational excellence
• Optimizes project management by providing the information required for decision-making at the right time
• Demonstrates technical knowledge of raw materials, formulas and/or manufacturing processes