IT Product Manager

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT OUR BIG TECH TRANSFORMATION?
L’Oréal is present in 130 countries on five continents. For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted itself solely to one business: beauty; it is now the industry world leader with €42 billion consolidated sales.
Today, L’Oréal includes +2000 tech positions and it’s constantly growing. Especially with our ambition to become the #1 BeautyTech company, meaning inventing the beauty of the future while becoming the company of the future.
BeautyTech will equip the Group with the key assets it needs to conquer this new world, where Tech has become strategic.
To achieve this ambition, L’Oréal needs to continue recruiting 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 (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 Product Manager, within a motivated and focused team of 12 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 strengthen and develop the Master data around Formulation and the creation of beauty products.
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**:

- Identify, challenge and prioritize business needs in collaboration with product owner
- Lead projects in Agile, think MVP
- Implement / promote project management good practices, ensure their understanding
- Perform and/or supervise unit testing and bring support to users for acceptance testing
- 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
- 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: C# and object, databases (SQL), object design, API (Rest), code rationalization/refactoring
- Established skills on solutions functional/technical architecture designs
- Knowledge and /or willingness to learn and understand new technologies (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**:
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**:

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.).

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