Software Asset Manager Sam - Solutions Optimization Manager 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
At L'Oréal, technology is at the heart of our transformation. The BeautyTech drives this transformation, committed to maximizing efficiencies, optimizing investments, and fostering continuous innovation.
Within this context 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.
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)
- Leading global optimization of software, AI and Tech solutions, including license sizing, usage analysis and adoption management.
- Exploring and assessing emerging AI/GenAI cost models, demonstrating curiosity and agility toward rapidly evolving consumption-based paradigm.
- Building and communicating dashboards, KPIs and optimization plans, ensuring clear visibility and alignment across the Group.
- Providing strategic recommendations to leadership, supporting informed decision-making on usage, investments, and value creation.
- Creating strong awareness among end-users about solution cost, AI consumption mechanism, and value creation, helping them to make cost efficient usage decisions.
- Promoting a Buy Less culture, ensuring the ability to anticipate business shifts and strategically reopen negotiations.
- Driving a strong community dynamic actively animating Tech and Finance networks to share insights, anticipate changes and coordinate actions.

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:
- 10 or more years of proven experience in a similar context
- 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
- Proactive, organized, rigorous, and possessing sharp analytical skills. You have a strong service orientation, an ability to lead working groups, and to positively influence.
- Fluent English required
- 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.