Solutions Optimization Manager - Sofware Asset Manager Sam H/F L'Oréal Groupe

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 Aesop 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 2,000 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 is how we know our consumers intimately, augmenting their beauty journeys with unparalleled diverse and sustainable experiences. 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.

YOUR FUTURE TEAM
The BeautyTech Finance team drives our transformation by maximizing efficiencies, optimizing investments, and fostering continuous innovation. In this constantly evolving landscape, we strive to rationalize and simplify our marketing and technology solutions ecosystem.

What you'll be doing
We are seeking a passionate and experienced Solutions Optimization Manager. You will play a key role in maximizing the value of our software and technology assets, ensuring strategic and efficient management of licenses and the adoption of Solutions
You'll be accountable for Solutions Optimization Including:
- Licenses volume definition in collaboration with Solution owners
- Licenses process allocation & monitoring
- Buy Less strategy, including adoption & usage intensity measurement
Your day to day:
- Animating and coordinating Solution inventories (as is picture) with all stakeholders: Solution owner IT & Business Stakeholders (Global/Zone/Local)
- Contributing to the definition of an efficient target (to be situation): identifying opportunities for consolidation, rationalization, and efficiency.
- Establishing and maintaining regular dashboards and KPIs to monitor progress and measure the impact of optimization initiatives
- Working closely with Purchasing / Legal / Finance to prepare negotiations and define savings opportunities.
- Best practice sharing: Promoting best practices in solution management and raising awareness within the IT, Business and Finance communities about the importance of continuous optimization.
- Providing Beauty Tech management and Business Stakeholders with strategic recommendations for optimizing usage, aiming to significantly enhance awareness
- Leading the implementation of processes, governance and tools necessary for software solution optimization, in collaboration with all stakeholders

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 have:
- 8 or more years' experience in the field of IT or in a similar field
- Software environment knowledge: solid Tech environment knowledge to understand licenses mechanisms, counting method, and software usage measurement
- Excellent collaboration, communication skills, enabling you to interact effectively with multidisciplinary teams (IT, Business, Purchasing, Finance, Legal) on a global scale
- Proactivity, organizational skills, rigor, analytical skills.
- A strong service orientation, an ability to lead working groups, and to positively influence.
- Fluent English
- Skills in Business Intelligence are a plus

LET US GIVE YOU 6 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.
- Offers a Hybrid Work Policy: 3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home
- Provides many benefits: VIP staff shop offering our products at a preferential rate, a company restaurant & gym, 60% reimbursement of transportation subscription, a work council offering lots of employee discounts (social & cultural activities, holiday vouchers etc.) and much more!
- Delivers a powerful and innovative HR policy: 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.
- Is an Equal Opportunity Employer and takes pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and we do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That's the beauty of L'Oréal.

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