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.

Hello 👋

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to join our WebSite Factory (WSF) team as a Tech Project Manager. WSF is the platform powering brand editorial websites across all L'Oréal divisions and geographic zones, built on Sitecore CMS and hosted on Microsoft Azure. The team is composed of approximately 200 members.

This pivotal role is not just about managing projects; it's about being the "face" and voice of our team, championing transversal tech solutions across WSF ecosystem. You will be instrumental in bridging the gap between technology and organizational readiness, ensuring that our ambitious tech initiatives are seamlessly integrated and embraced by our diverse platform worldwide.

What will be your day to day ? :

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of tech projects, involving multiple stakeholders (CDMO, Divisions, Countries, IT Zones, Architects...)

• Frame technical initiatives and evaluate concepts proposed by teams, assessing their technical viability with the WSF team. Act as the primary translator between highly technical teams (Developers, Architects) and business.
• Define and execute the technical roadmap for the Website Factory platform.
• Produce comprehensive partner briefs and RFP documentation for managed services procurement (development, cloud operations, evolution)
• Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of brand pilots, platform evolutions, and strategic initiatives.
• Innovation Integration & POC Engagement: Actively participate in Proof-of-Concepts (POCs) for emerging AI and tech solutions, providing strategic input on adoption pathways, change impact, and scalability to ensure successful transition from innovation to global implementation.
• Roadmap Awareness & Alignment: Create awareness and understanding of both the business and IT Zones for ongoing pipeline initiatives, ensuring transparency and alignment across all relevant parties.
• Impact Measurement & Reporting: Define clear metrics and reports to support the projects.
• Fuel the quarterly PI planning cycles: content preparation, prioritization workshops, roadmap presentation, and stakeholder alignment.
• Coordinate with strategic technology partners to deliver the projects.

And what are the key technical skills in this position for you to succeed ?

• Solid understanding of Tech architecture.

• Knowledge of enterprise CMS platforms (Sitecore strongly preferred), cloud infrastructure (Microsoft Azure, GCP)

• Familiarity with generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and hands-on experience or a strong interest in prompt engineering and creating effective AI instructions.
• Proven experience working with hybrid teams (employees + freelancers, onshore + offshore) in a global, matrixed organization.

• Excellent presentation skills for audiences ranging from business to tech teams, to align diverse teams toward common goals.

• Strong background in developing and executing comprehensive communication and training plans for technology adoption.

• Fluent in English; French is a strong asset given the France-based global coordination role

You'll stand out if you have the following skills:

• Effective Communication: Clear and concise communicator, capable of conveying complex information to various audiences.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving: Strong analytical skills with the ability to dissect complex issues, identify root causes, and propose effective solutions.
• Autonomy & Proactivity: Demonstrates initiative, self-management, and the ability to drive projects independently while anticipating challenges.
• Rigor & Attention to Detail: Meticulous and thorough in approach, ensuring high standards of quality and precision in all deliverables.
• Adaptability: Capable of thriving in dynamic, international, and matrix environments, demonstrating flexibility and resilience.
• Business-oriented: Possesses a clear understanding of strategic business challenges and acts as a proactive business partner.

Above all, we are looking for people who are curious, collaborative, entrepreneurial, strategic thinkers and who value having an impact. Sounds like a good fit? Apply now!

LET US GIVE YOU 6 OTHER REASONS TO JOIN US!

Joining L'Oréal means joining a company that:

1. Invests in Tech and positions its Tech teams at the heart of its digital transformation strategy.
2. Allows its employees to have a real impact, to test their ideas, to innovate and to build our future.
3. Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home
4. 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!
5. 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.
6. 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

1. Interview with HR
2. Interview with the hiring manager
3. Interview with the business leader

We will be delighted to exchange with you!

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