Junior Supply Chain Associate - Credit (12 Months)

Junior Supply Chain Associate – Credit (12 months)

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 Consumers Products, our mission is to democratize the best of beauty, and for us, beauty has to be sustainable. Our division holds the world’s #1 beauty brand with L’Oréal Paris, the #1 makeup brand with Maybelline New York, the #1 natural brand with Garnier, as well as NYX Professional Makeup.

Job Summary

This role is responsible for managing customer deductions specific to areas impacting Cash Discount, Over/Short and Full Invoice. The expectation is to investigate the reason for the deductions and provide a detailed action plan to solve and reduce these areas of deductions. The expectation is to identity actions to drive change, leading to improvements that result in reduction of customer liabilities, by means of partnering with the appropriate internal and external business teams. In addition, this role will be responsible for assisting the Credit Team in creating process/procedures in areas of sensitive or financial impact.

This Position Would Be Responsible For The Following

• Partner with AR team to learn and create process/procedure documentation
• Interact and collaborate with multi-functional internal teams to improve P&L Impact
• Interact and collaborate with external partners to improve processes
• Drive and lead root cause investigations to find process improvements

Day-to-day Responsibilities

TASKS, DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze trends to change reduce deductions/change customer bad behavior
• Lead collaborative initiatives to identify root causes and implement preventive measures to reduce/eliminate
• Build relationships with Customer Supply Chain teams to better understand their retailer and collaborate on the action plans
• Communicate effectively with multi-functional account teams
• Become expert in High Radius/SAP
• Research invoice related deductions, providing root cause and appropriate actions for resolution
• Prepare professional quality emails and spreadsheets for communicating with key internal and external teams on the status findings
• Prepare weekly/monthly status reports/presentations for Management

Qualifications And Education Requirements

• Ability and willingness to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment
• Excellent analytical skills
• Ability to present data to upper management in an organized and persuasive manner
• Ability to build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external customers
• Ability to work independently and make decisions
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Candidates must have received a Bachelor’s degree within the last 12 months OR must have graduated with a Master’s degree within the last 12 months. Degree in Supply Chain, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Finance or other quantative business discipline preferred.
• Experience in SAP
• Strong attention to detail
• Flexibility to work extended hours as required
• Understanding when issues need to be escalated and provide summarized information to suggest/enable decisions
• Ability to achieve results
• Advanced skills in Excel, data software, Power BI a plus
• 0 – 2 years Experience in or exposure to Supply Chain, Finance or Accounting

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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