Technical Product manager

L'Oréal; Clichy; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

L'Oréal is accelerating its Beauty Tech journey and seeks a Technico-Functional Product Manager to drive the digital roadmap for raw materials within a focused team. You will work with chemists and IT to deliver user-centered applications from digital conception to lab fabrication.

Apply agile methods, ensure reliable data access, and uphold architecture standards while collaborating across functions to maximize business value and impact in a global setting.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methods, UX and Design Thinking.
• Curiosity and ability to learn new technologies (AI, Cloud, DevOps).

Responsibilities

• Identify, challenge and prioritize business needs in collaboration with product owner.
• Design new applications based on user centricity to deliver maximum business value.
• Lead projects in Agile, think MVP.
• Implement and promote project management best practices.
• Build, deliver, and maintain multiple applications to maximize value for users.
• Supervise development teams and ensure architecture guidelines are followed.
• Perform and/or supervise unit testing and support user acceptance testing.
• Communicate with stakeholders and report on project status and risks.

Skills

SQL

REST API

Data modeling

Data design

Software architecture

Agile methods

Collaboration

Problem solving

Communication

English fluency

Education

University degree in Computer Science

Tools

N/A

Job description

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR BIG TECH TRANSFORMATION?

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 2,500 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 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.

HOLD ON, WHERE ARE OURS MANNERS?

WE HAVEN’T PRESENTED OUR TEAM!

Our mission is to design, build deploy and maintain solutions to provide the best digital working environment for the chemists dedicated to beauty in our laboratories.

We leverage cutting-edge technologies (IA, Cloud, API, Container, Algo) and master acceleration tactics (Design Thinking, Lean Startup, Agile, UX, DevOps), to foster the digital transformation in Beauty Tech.

As a Technico-Functionnal Product Manager, within a motivated and focused team of 15 people which manages the major R&I repositories (Formula, Raw Materials and Patents) to contribute to innovation and maximize business value, you will take advantage of the acceleration of the digital transformation program to provide to chemist a complete user experience to manage their formula developments from digital conception to physical fabrication at lab. Within this scope, you will specially drive the digital roadmap for rawmaterials, ensuring our scientists have seamless access to reliable, structured data to accelerate sustainable and innovative formulations.

Do you want to take an active and decisive part in L’Oréal’s transition to Beauty Tech and Green Sciences worldwide? Are you motivated by project combining Science and Digital and in tune with a Research and Innovation state of mind?

INTERESTED?

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL DO IN NUTSHELL!

We can summarize your missions in several missions:

1. Identify, challenge and prioritize business needs in collaboration with product owner
2. Based on user centricity, design new application to deliver best business value
3. Lead projects in Agile, think MVP
4. Implement / promote project management good practices, ensure their understanding
5. Build, deliver, and maintain/support several applications to maximize value for users
6. Supervise development teams, master application code and ensure the respect of guidelines/best architecture and urbanization practices.
7. Perform and/or supervise unit testing and bring support to users for acceptance testing
8. Communicate with stakeholders, elaborate and report regular global status on projects and support activities you will be responsible for, underlining the main alerts or attention points and synthesizing action plans undertaken
9. Supervise and ensure the right contribution of multiple interfaced projects/teams

STILL INTERESTED?

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 show great curiosity in:

Technical skills:

• Good understanding of development: databases (SQL), object design, API (Rest), code rationalization/refactoring
• Strong understanding of data models, data relationships, cardinality and data design principles
• Established skills on solutions functional/technical architecture designs
• Knowledge and /or willingness to learn and understand new technologies (IA, Cloud, Containerization, Devops…) and improve systems
• Knowledge of Agile project management.

Transversal skills:

• Ability to build collaborative relationships with both users and stakeholders
• Problem solving, strong analytical skills
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills
• Ability to understand, model, challenge business processes as a player in digital transformation
• Considering the multi-cultural environment: fluent in English

Attitude :

• Take initiatives and have the sense of responsibilities
• Openness to various needs & creation of consensus inside the frame
• Agility to manage priorities and face possible urgent challenges
• Demonstrates to be a strong team member with a collaborative mindset

Experience:

• University degree with > 3 years’ experience in application development

And finally , you may not be an expert with all requirements listed below, however, you must show great curiosity in project methodology: Agile, UX, Design Thinking.

WAIT, THERE IS MORE! LET US GIVE YOU 4 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. Has a powerful and innovative HR policy: a very 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.
4. Has chosen to uphold strong values and to be particularly advanced from a social and environmental point of view (strong diversity and inclusion policy, L'Oréal for the Future program, commitment to numerous communities, etc.).

The L'Oréal Group is convinced that difference is a deep source of wealth, that allows everyone to grow, to challenge themselves and to go further.

We strongly encourage everyone to always dare and never censor themselves. Skills can always be learnt.

We will be delighted to exchange with you!