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Manager, CeraVe Color & Artwork Operations Development, LDB
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Manager, CeraVe Color & Artwork, L'Oréal Dermatological Beauty – Clark, New Jersey
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Who We Are
Join us at L’Oréal, the world's #1 beauty company present in over 150 markets. For over a century, we have been transforming; fueled by data, tech, innovation, and science. Together, we tackle big challenges while making sure we stay committed to making the world a more inclusive and a better place for everyone & our planet.
At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain.
At L'Oréal Dermatological Beauty, our mission is to help everyone in their quest for healthy and beautiful skin. Our division is the world leader in dermo-cosmetics by adding health to beauty, featuring brands like Vichy, La Roche-Posay, CeraVe, SkinCeuticals, and SkinBetter Science.
We are seeking a Manager, Color & Artwork, where you will lead and oversee all color matching and aesthetic management for CeraVe’s packaging components, based in our Clark, New Jersey Operations Hub for the US. In this role, you will apply expert color science to assess and approve color development across materials like PCR plastic resins, paper cartons, and labels, partnering closely with Marketing, Operations, and technical teams to drive high-quality, cost-efficient, and sustainable decoration concepts while ensuring strict adherence to timelines and quality standards.
A Day in the Life:
- Color & Aesthetic Management
- Lead and oversee color matching for CeraVe packaging components based on Marketing’s decoration brief across multiple zones.
- Apply expert color science to assess and approve color development across PCR plastic resins, paper cartons, and labels for aesthetic consistency.
- Conduct risk analyses on marketing aesthetic briefs, providing recommendations for highest perceived value at lowest cost.
- Assist and oversee on-site print trials and press approvals to ensure color and decoration compliance with L'Oréal quality standards.
- Contribute to artwork routing and system-based artwork approval processes.
- Packaging Project Execution
- Manage packaging tasks for lower complexity projects, including specification issuance and critical testing (compatibility, decoration validation, light resistance).
- Drive extrapolation on testing and homologation through close collaboration with technical teams, Marketing, and Development.
- Project Leadership & Risk Mitigation
- Anticipate and escalate potential blocking points, ensuring Color & Artwork owned deadlines are met and launches stay on schedule.
- Utilize L'Oréal's Risk Elevation Process to formulate robust action plans for timing or conception risks.
- Serve as a technical lead and point of contact to support and upskill other color & artwork developers.
- Innovation, Sustainability & Strategic Collaboration
- Lead sustainable decoration solution developments in alignment with L'Oréal's group-wide commitments.
- Provide expert advice in conception meetings to optimize project complexity, minimize time-to-market, and reinforce awareness of financial impacts (e.g., sample costs, press approvals).
- Support global operations partners on projects executed in other zones.
We Are Looking For:
- Education: A completed Bachelor’s degree in Packaging Engineering or a related engineering/technical discipline is required
- Experience: 5-7+ years of experience in product development or project management within dermo-cosmetics, prestige beauty, or consumer goods is required.
- Proficient PC skills including Excel and PowerPoint.
- Proficient written and verbal communication skills to deal effectively with all organizational levels and suppliers.
- Good organizational skills to manage documentation, materials, and information.
- The ability to be onsite, in the office at least 3 days a week, and travel between NJ/NY L’Oréal sites as well as US vendor sites (10-15% of time) is required
- Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent, ongoing basis is required. No immigration support/sponsorship offered for this role.
What’s In It For You
- A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you’ll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
- Real responsibility from day 1, there’s no sitting on the sidelines at L’Oréal
- An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
- A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal /environmental causes to make concrete difference
- Base Salary Range: $90,200 - $128,500 (The actual compensation will depend on a variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location, work experience, education, and skill level)
- Competitive Benefits Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
- Hybrid Work Policy (Up to 2 Days per week work from home for eligible roles, subject to manager approval)
- Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
- Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
- Learning and Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
- Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
- Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs
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!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and 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.