Supply Planning – Brand Supply Management – 12 Month Internship Full Time NEW

Division: Professional Products Division

Location: Clark, NJ

Reports To: Manager, PPD Supply Planning

Who We Are

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.

At L’Oréal Professional Products, our mission is to support hairdressers and develop the hair industry sustainably, and lead the digital transformation of our industry with a customer-centric approach. Our brands portfolio includes L’Oréal Professionnel, Kérastase, Redken, Matrix, and Pureology.

What You Will Do

Brand Supply Management (BSM) manages Finished Product Supply Planning for a category(s) under the Signature at the market level, facilitating coordination of inventory, understanding of trade-offs and streamlining communication to key stakeholders across the organization.

Responsibilities can include but are not limited to the below listing:

• Responsible for monitoring inventory levels and maintaining inventory parameters to ensure the delivery of Service KPI. Understands and communicates short to mid-term supply constraints and manages E&O at the signature level.
• Coordinates the flow of product and information, manages exceptions and streamlines communication to commercial teams through the local market demand planners (or through short-term Inventory Exception & Management meetings)
• Communicates with the GBSC to understand supply confirmation, analyze tradeoff decisions at market level, present options during S&OP meetings, and coordinate signature level allocation.
• In supply allocation scenarios, coordinate assembly vs base product allocation with the business planning team.
• Coordinate with Assembly Planner to ensure confirmation of stock available based on confirmed supply from the GBSC.
• Confirm DRP based on available stock and production confirmed over a certain number of days.
• Manages call-offs to local markets and manages forward deployment.
• Manages DRP including supply confirmation from import products coming from other zones.
• Confirm product availability and timing for local market launch to GBSC.
• Responsible for E&O review & management and identifying and implementing E&O reduction opportunities in the local market.

Required Qualifications

What We Are Looking For:

• BA/BS degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business or related field preferred
• MS Office experience, strong proficiency in Excel with comfort analyzing/manipulating large data sets and presenting visually
• Comfort with ERP Systems – SAP APO Experience a plus
• Strong communication skills
• An enthusiasm for continuous learning and development

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L’Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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