Director, Supply Chain Analytics Tech Lead

Job Title Supply Chain Analytics Tech Lead

Division: Corporate IT, Data

Location: Berkeley Heights, NJ

Who We Are:

For more than a century, L'Oreal 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 beautyin terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.

At L'Oreal, our IT teams design and build solutions to ensure high performance for all our business sectors by imagining new ways of doing things, from designing websites to building algorithms and predicting new trends. They can be found leading teams towards a more connected and digitalized future in IT retail, e-commerce, CRM, data, AI, cybersecurity, Cloud and E-Marketing. You never stop learning at L'Oreal IT because things change at the speed of light! Come join our dynamic team!

What You Will Do:

As Director Supply chain Analytics within Data & Analytics Platform, you will be leading the Supply Chain Analytics domain across the North America Zone by driving adoption of the L'Oreal Beauty Tech Data Platform (BTDP), delivering data and analytics solutions, developing IT talents, managing partnerships across North America, metiers, and Global Supply Chain Data Domain and IT teams, while facilitating the future vision for Supply Chain & Operations domain.

The role manages the internal and external tech talents and resources working on Supply Chain Analytics within the North America zone. As a people manager lead, mentor, and develop team members in your charge. Facilitating collaboration, innovation and excellence while providing opportunities for growth and development within the team.

As a key contributor to both Global and Zone strategy for this domain, you will need to be a knowledgeable communicator of Supply Chain Analytics topics across the areas of S&OP, MSC, Fulfillment, and OCS. Leveraging experience of Data & Analytics, Transformation and Change Management you would also play a key role in an ongoing Company wide Data Transformation program. This role requires a strong technical understanding of Data & Analytics technologies and guide the technical and business teams towards high quality and performance solutions.

This role also plays a key role in relationship management with various partners. At a local level the collaboration with Data & Analytic peers and business product owner(s), regionally building partnerships with North America teams, and globally linking with central functions such as Global Data Domains, Chief Data & Analytics Office, and Data Factory Team.

• Identify, challenge, and prioritize business needs in collaboration with business product owner.
• Ensure the supply chain analytics platform meet the strategic objective of supply chain business.
• Define the product(s)' standards of architecture design, development, and management.
• Lead technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design.
• Supervise internal talents, development teams, master application code, and provide guidelines/best practices in respect for the principles of architecture and urbanization.

• Communicate with stakeholders, elaborate, and report regular global status on projects and support activities.
• Participate in review meetings and steering committees.
• Be aware of new IT innovations and development best practices to advise community on strategy.
• Delivery of Analytical solutions across the Zone.
• Delivery of BTDP Shared Domain Data Sets in delegation/collaboration with Global data domains.
• Be the subject matter expert to the engineering, quality and run team.
• Facilitatebuild and run issue resolution and communication by supporting service delivery and technical teams to minimize impact and accelerate resolution.

What We Are Looking For:

Experience:

• 10+ years within IT functions.
• 3+ years as a technical architect.
• 5+ years of data analytics solutioning.
• 3+ years of people management.
• Supply Chain domain functional knowledge.

Technical Skills:

• Experienced in Business Intelligence, Enterprise Data Warehouse / Data Lake solutions specifically designing data models and warehouses and using SQL and NoSQL database management systems.
• Knowledge and skills with data analytics and visualization technologies including but not limited to Google Cloud Platform, SQL, Python, Azure Data Services, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Power Query Formula Language (M), Multi-Dimensional Expressions (MDX) and R.
• Broad cloud technology background (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS) and DevOps solutions.

Professional Skills:

• Team and project management.
• Strong organization skills with ability to handle complex situations and act transversally.
• Teamwork, excellent social skills, intellectual flexibility.
• Agile product/project management.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Experienced working with remote teams.
• Understand and develop continuous improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to be a team player with a high level of initiative.
• People management and development.
• Ability towork independentlyunder little supervision within a fast pacedclient centricenvironment, manage priorities, and meet commitments
• Self-motivated and results oriented
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and lead functional groups towards alignment
• Ability to engage in healthy debates, effectively problem solve within a team environment, and demonstrate resiliency
• Experience working in an environment withAgile values and principles.

Knowledge of SAP processes (nice to have)

What's In It For You:

• 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 to L'Oreal's Internal 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

Don't meet every single requirement?At L'Oreal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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