Zero Waste Supply Chain Manager

At L'Oréal, a No Waste Supply Chain Manager acts like a conductor for L'Oréal's returned and unsold products and POS, making sure that they get a second life wherever possible and nothing goes to waste!

A DAY IN THE LIFE

This dynamic role offers a unique blend of strategic thinking and hands-on action within our passionate Sustainability team. You'll be a key player in our No Waste ambition for FGs and POS, driving tangible change across multiple divisions. Your days will be filled with diverse challenges and opportunities:

Prevention: Collaborating with divisional teams to optimize stock management, forecast accuracy, and minimize excess inventory from the start. Implementing processes and tools and monitoring their effectiveness.

Cure: Leading innovative initiatives to remonetise at-risk stock, managing stock allocation to different channels to maximise value and clearance. Examples include managing catalogue (mix & price) for Friends & Family sales, co-ordinating Liquidation channels and activating product donation opportunities.

Analysis & Optimisation: You'll dive deep into data, analysing key performance indicators (KPIs) like bad stock percentages, sell-through rates, and the flow of products through second-life channels. Using data-driven insights, you'll present recommendations to senior management and collaborate with international counterparts to share best practices.

Outlet Supply Chain Management: This role will also incorporate responsibilities related to the new Outlet supply chain, ensuring efficient product flow and optimal stock levels in future outlet stores. This includes:

Setup: Acting as the lead for the Supply flow workstream to ensure successful flow setup of stock from Central DCs (e.g. ROYE) plus our three UKI DCs to the Outlet.

Replenishment: Managing product replenishment flows, collaborating with outlet managers on sell-out performance, and sizing needs to allocate stock effectively.

Store Operations: Ensuring the correct application of inventory processes, reception and storage procedures, and shelf replenishment. Monitoring stock accuracy and collaborating with store managers on training and process improvements.

Analysis & Communication: Analysing and sharing supply KPIs with stakeholders, assessing No Waste SC performance through field visits, and ensuring stock reconciliation between systems.

You are Supply Chain savvy with a strong understanding and experience of supply chain operations, processes, cycles, logistics and reverse logistics processes (e.g. returns), ideally with experience working with international counterparts (Zone/MSL/Global)

You are a data-driven analyser: analytical skills and a data driven approach are a must, so you can track KPIs, analyse data, and make informed strategic or tactical recommendations

You can work proactively & independently to lead projects and meetings, acting as the operations expert within a small team

You are a problem-solver, resilient, solutions-focused

You have strong project management skills, and can co-ordinate people, manage timelines, lead meeting cycles, or build out new processes

You have strong collaboration & relationship building skills to lead relationships and meetings with different divisions across key functions of supply chain, physical distribution and finance, plus Zone counterparts

You are comfortable with a dynamic, uncertain environment and are able to adapt and drive new initiatives

You have a genuine interest in or passion for minimising waste, promoting circularity and contributing to a more sustainable future

You can be a change agent: a proactive and persuasive individual who can advocate for new ideas, drive change within the organisation and inspire others to embrace sustainable practices.

L'Oréal is present in 150 markets on five continents. For more than a century, L'Oréal has devoted itself solely to 'Create beauty that moves the world'; it is now the industry world leader with €29 billion consolidated sales. Together, we solve complex challenges at scale, while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet. Experience the excitement of agility to shape the future of beauty; where diversity and purpose come together to create meaningful impact.

Our Corporate Division supports the 4000+ strong workforce in the UK & Ireland. It's a fast-paced and dynamic environment when you'll have visibility over our 4 Divisions and play an integral role in moving our business forward. Our founder Eugène Schueller once said that "a company is not walls and machines, it's people, people, people". Joining our corporate teams means joining the world leader in beauty, at the cutting edge of innovation. But above all, it means becoming part of a team of talented and inspiring people.

Our industry-leading award-winning benefits package shows how much we value our people. We know they're at the heart of L'Oréal's success, so we offer a fair and competitive package to help you thrive.

Enjoy perks like money-saving offers, free mortgage advice, share options and an enhanced pension plan. Love our brands? You'll get up to 60% off iconic names like YSL, CeraVe, Armani, Kiehl's and Garnier! Because health matters, we offer private medical and dental insurance, discounted gym memberships, and onsite mental health support. We also provide enhanced family leave for all and up to 4 weeks of paid fertility leave, so you can prioritise what matters most.

Learning is key at L'Oréal. We'll help you master your role, build skills, and access top-notch leadership programs and expert talks. And there's lots more too!