Purchasing Business Partner

PURCHASING BUSINESS PARTNER - Indirect Sourcing 

When you look at L’Oréal, what do you see? If all you see is lipstick, look again and experience the Freedom to go Beyond the ordinary. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal. We operate in 150 countries on 5 continents. With 36 international brands and 86,000 employees worldwide, we’re well on our way to fulfilling our common purpose: to create beauty that moves the world.

By 2030 we want to capture over another 1 billion consumers around the world. How? By creating cosmetic products which meet the infinite diversity of consumers beauty needs and desires, and always through digital innovation. Not only that, but taking our sustainability goals seriously; moving us to a more inclusive and sustainable society, for every generation.

Our brands, dynamic culture, and always being our own challenger mean that we offer freedom and opportunity you won’t get anywhere else. 

If you want the Freedom to go Beyond, we’ll see you at L’Oréal.

We embrace and enhance emerging trends to create the most relevant and sustainable beauty products and experiences, making them accessible to each and everyone all around the world, thanks to the diversity of our brands and their communities.

L'Oréal Purchasing

The Purchasing Function mission is universal to all business Divisions & Corporate Functions: Supporting L'Oréal UK&I in offering the best in cosmetics innovation to the greatest number of people. 

We are Process, Policy, Relationships, Innovative, Commercial, Connectors, Change agents, Entrepreneurs in our approach

The Purchasing Business Partner contributes to the efficiency of the Purchasing department, to the respect of internal control rules, to follow suppliers’ risk and to feed the L’Oreal for the Future program. The Business Partner will sit in the Business Partner team and reporting into the Head of Business Partners. 

The Business Partner is clearly oriented toward the L'Oréal business to be considered as an asset for the business unit and a source of efficiency, innovation, and value out.

You will

•    Develop deep knowledge of the business needs, expectations, priorities, and goals across the indirect spend categories and anticipate new sourcing and future solutions, in partnership with the Sourcing Buyer 

•    Deliver the purchasing strategy with Sourcing Buyers, organise advance action plans to benefit from market opportunities

•    Anticipate business activity and proactively contribute to build, share, and apply the category strategy, using the category network 

•    Optimise costs based on the validated briefs, organise efficient follow-up of the projects in order to guarantee the cost, the quality, the on-time delivery and the service levels

•    Operate short term or non-recurrent RFPs in alignment with Sourcing Buyers 

•    Analyse business needs and challenge demand; collect, understand and challenge stakeholders needs and promote demand management. Apply value-add methodology to optimize quality, service and cost 

•    Build strong relationships with suppliers and contribute to supplier evaluation based on all operations managed by Suppliers inc. formal evaluation of the total performance (price, quality, innovation, service and sustainability)

•    Support the change following implementation of any new solutions, new ways of working internally including part of the training in conjunction with the Sourcing Team

•    Manage performance & efficiency, build cost forecasts, manage KPIs, build continuous improvement strategy for financial and non-financial KPIs, ensuring data quality throughout

•    Support the Budget process by identifying opportunities. Accountable for tracking the realisation of savings in year with stakeholders linked to your initiatives or projects, in collaboration with the Sourcing Excellence team 

•    Ensure utilisation of the e-procurement tools (e.g. MySourcing and MyMarket) and guarantee accurate data in these systems

You have

•    Excellent communication skills – written and verbal.

•    Excellent influencing skills – you will be required to demonstrate thought leadership as well as drive to execution.

•    Ability to build strong relationships, both internally and externally

•    Experience in managing complexity within a fast-paced sales / retail environment.

•    Enthusiasm and passion for working in a team and with multiple stakeholders across the business.

•    Excellent presentation skills with attention to detail for creating sound commercial arguments. 

You show

Ambition: You anticipate, think and dream big, demonstrating a high level of aspiration. You are self-driven and show proactivity, especially when seeing problems as challenges. You thrive for exceptional performance.

Judgement: You can balance operational and strategic thinking, challenging the status quo and managing confrontation effectively. You cut quickly through complexity and ambiguity whilst also thinking sustainably and are future-oriented. You reduce complexity to get things done.

Resilience: You always demonstrate purpose and ownership mindset but manage your own energy well. You uphold positivity for others and persist, bouncing back when faced with obstacles. You step back at times and accept limits.  

Empathy: You cooperate and network effectively, creating genuine and trustful relationships with diverse people. You are sensitive to beauty and related emotions, always supporting others and showing benevolence. You understand and respect others’ feelings and motives.  

Learning Agility: You are a self-motivated learner, showing self-awareness and demonstrating openness and curiosity. You experiment and learn from mistakes and past experiences, always showing courage and stepping out of your comfort zone. You support the development of a learning culture.

You get

We put people development and learning at the heart of our business; we’ll help you master your role, develop your technical expertise and you’ll benefit from exceptional management and leadership programmes. From face-to-face workshops to our global online learning resources, you’re actively encouraged to embed learning into your daily life and are rewarded for continuous improvement. Don’t forget that every employee gets 3 Coursera credits; that means you can get qualifications from over 1000 universities from around the world, with thousands of courses to choose from.

Looking for a good work/life balance? With our new hybrid working scheme, you can take a flexible approach to work as well as benefit from early finishes on Fridays during the summer...so you can enjoy more time with your friends and family.

As any great employer should do, we make sure we look after your financial wellbeing. That’s why we have a great pension plan, profit share scheme and many more incentives to give you the security you deserve. We also put employee health and wellbeing at the front of everything we do; fully training employees as mental health ambassadors to support and educate ourselves further. There’s also the chance to enrol in medical and dental insurance, gym discounts, health check-ups and even yoga and Pilates classes to employees in all of our locations.

Oh, did we mention that as an employee you also get discount sales of up to 70% off throughout the year on our 36 brands? Plus, you also get the option to share that in our Friends and Family sales as well!

How we recruit

At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.