EPM Product Owner

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 Aēsop 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 IT Finance department acts as the strategic partner for Finance, Legal, and Compliance & Ethics. We facilitate and collaboratively accompany business transformation by designing high-impact IT solutions at scale, while upholding the Group’s IT standards across architecture, data, and security.

In close collaboration with business partners (Group and Divisional Finance, Supply Chain), the EPM Domain aims to empower our métiers to drive performance through cutting-edge solutions, spanning the entire lifecycle from inception to run operations.

In this role, you will own the end-to-end lifecycle of Finance EPM products, acting as the key bridge between business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, and external partners. You will shape and prioritize the roadmap, manage application operations and incidents, oversee budgets and capacity plans, and ensure that continuous enhancements deliver tangible value to Finance teams.

This is a highly collaborative role for someone who combines strong Finance process understanding with product ownership, application management, and stakeholder management capabilities.

What you’ll do

Business partnership & product ownership

• Be the primary point of contact for Finance stakeholders for the assigned EPM applications.
• Capture,challengeand translate business needs into clear,prioritizedfunctional requirements and user stories.
• Define andmaintainthe product vision,roadmapand backlog in line with Finance and IT priorities.

End-to-end application lifecycle management

• Ensure the reliable day-to-day management of EPM applications across their full lifecycle.
• Lead the scoping, design, delivery, testing,deploymentand post-go-live follow-up of new capabilities.
• Manage enhancement requests, assess their value and complexity, and prioritize them with stakeholders.
• Oversee incident and problem management, ensuringtimelyresolution andstrong communicationtobusiness users.
• Monitor application performance, service quality, risks and recurring issues to drive continuous improvement.

Planning, governance & financial management

• Manage the application budget, includingRuncosts, project investments,forecastsand supplier follow-up.
• Lead capacity planning and resource allocation across internal teams and external partners.
• Prepare andfacilitategovernancemeetings, providing clear visibility on roadmap progress, budget, risks,incidentsand delivery priorities.
• Track key performance indicators and service-level commitments to ensure operational excellence.

Delivery & continuous improvement

• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver initiatives on time, within budget and at the expected quality level.
• Ensure compliance with IT governance, security,architecture,and data standards.
• Identifyopportunities to simplify processes, improveuserexperience,and maximize value from EPM solutions.
• Stay informed on EPM market trends and bring forward pragmatic innovation opportunities for Finance.

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:

• 5 or moreyears’experience inApplication Management, Product Ownership, BusinessAnalysisor IT Project Management, ideally within Finance or EPM environments.
• Strong understanding of Finance processes such as planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation,reportingor profitability analysis.Knowledge of Operations and Supply processes is a plus.
• SignificantEPM solution experience (TM1, Anaplan,Onestreametc…)
• Capacity to understand and go deeper on both functional and technical aspects to solve issues
• Knowledge and experience of ITSM/ITBM principlesand Agile Methodology. Relevant certification is a plus
• FluentEnglish
• Good communication(right level of communication depending on the interlocutor)
• Proactive mindset with a passion for driving impactful, large-scale projects and capacity of coordination various teams
• Team player,Methodic ,problem-solving approach

Nice to have skills

• Data Integration Knowledge
• Business Intelligence Knowledge (PowerBI …)
• Beauty or luxury sector knowledge

Who We Are

At L'Oréal, we expect a level of leadership that leaves a lasting impact. You won’t just manage a team—you’ll actively mentor the next generation of talent and shape the strategic direction of your function. This is a space for leaders who are comfortable making hard decisions, challenging the consensus, and driving large-scale transformation.

In Beauty Tech, our ambition is to exponentially augment L’Oréal’s game-changing science with cutting-edge technologies, at scale. You'll join a global community of Tech Experts, leveraging AI, data, and digital innovation to deliver unsurpassed beauty experiences. With state-of-the-art infrastructure and a strong culture of continuous upskilling, you will directly impact our brands and businesses.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.