.For more than a century, L'Oréal 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 beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity, and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity.A Day In The Life:Defines purchasing strategy: organize and gather market knowledge, propose advanced action plans to benefit from market opportunitiesOptimizes costs: Improve the cost model through a good knowledge of supplier process, Identify opportunities leveraging value chain approachAnticipates business activity and acts proactively: Contribute to build, share, and apply the category strategy, using the category network. Captures Supplier InnovationMaximizes Supplier Relationship: define and implement supplier portfolio, monitor the performance and analyze P&Ls, make clear feed-backs and follow action plansCreates value and innovates: lead complex projects (Reformulation, W2W, Full buy, innovation, R2P, Indirects…). Develop and recommend best options to secure identified project risksNegotiates with integrity: use appropriate negotiation techniques and toolsOperates according to internal control principles and legal rules: implement standard contract framework enhancing on key legal principles, propose improvements and deals with the legal department. Monitor the contract complianceEvaluates and manages risks: apply risks policy and tools, propose action plansManage Performance and efficiency: Build cost forecasts for a simple category, share and control assumptions for budget construction. Manage KPIs, build continuous improvement strategy for financial and non-financial KPIsWho You Are:Bachelor's degree in engineering, administration or mathematical sciences3 years of experience in all purchasing/procurement tools (SAP, Optis, CPP, Scorecard ….)Ability to speak English (mandatory)Personal computer skills, to include experience with spreadsheets, presentations, database management, report building tools (i.E. PowerBI)