CDD - Chef de Projet Développement Packaging et Industrialisation

Profile

At Sephora, beauty is about feeling seen, valued, and empowered, individually and collectively. It is connecting deeply with others, celebrating diversity and inclusivity, unlocking your potential and making a difference every day. Together, we belong to something beautiful.

Since its inception in 1969 in Limoges, France, and as part of the LVMH Group since 1997, Sephora has been disrupting the prestige beauty retail industry. Today, Sephora continues to break with convention to drive its mission: champion a world of inspiration and inclusion where everyone can celebrate their beauty.

At Sephora Collection, Sephora's own brand, we bring together talent and expertise to design on-trend, reliable, effective and mindful products. Our mission: to offer everyone the opportunity to love and celebrate their unique beauty. Sephora Collection has 250 highly engaged employees in France, and a global impact that extends from Europe to the Middle East and right across the Americas and Asia. We are an authentic brand - free, vibrant, and always on the move. At Sephora Collection, every day is an invitation to learn, discover yourself and the endless possibilities of the world of beauty.

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with Marketing and Formula development on new briefs to answer needs that are technically and financially viable and advising creative team on best way to achieve requested designs.
• Working closely with Procurement to answer Marketing briefs while respecting cost and gross margin targets.
• Conducting risk assessment studies and providing project feasibility: function, manufacturability, component and tooling cost, timetable, risks, and global consistency.
• Following up on new tooling development, validating technical drawings and providing printing area.
• Establishing homologation plans and conducting all necessary testing to validate success criteria.
• Conducting all aesthetic development (color matching, decoration).
• Reviewing/Approving Artwork files.
• Managing industrialization phase and attending line trials at contract manufacturers sites, to ensure components and finished goods are of the correct quality expectations for production.
• Working closely with Quality to provide component and finished good specifications. Approving quality standards and range boards for Components and Finished Goods.
• Validating tertiary packaging for finished goods and palletization plans.
• Overall, following up on the timelines and reporting regularly on status of development issues to the immediate supervisor and to the project managers. Identifying mitigations plans and ensuring their deployment.
• Working on optimization of existing components to improve quality, reduce cost and improve sustainability.
• Supporting sustainability programs specifically applied to packaging.

Qualifications

• Experience working in technical packaging roles, ideally in the Beauty industry, minimum 7 years.
• Academic qualifications: Scientific Bachelors (packaging, chemistry, mechanical engineering, or other relevant discipline).
• Capability of operating in a fast-moving projects pipeline.
• Willingness to work in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Problem-solving skills. Ability to identify smart solutions with the right level of pragmatism.
• Strong interpersonal communication and presentation skills for verbal and written communication of ideas, technical rationales, risks, issues, and recommendations.
• Able to travel when required.

Benefits

• Community , in which authenticity is embraced, and the strength of our differences fuels our collective spirit.
• Culture of empowerment, learning & growth, that offers you the tools, space and opportunity to learn, innovate and lead.
• Work that brings fulfillment. From delighting clients every day, to inspiring our industry at large, every action makes a difference.

At Sephora, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and fostering an inclusive environment for everyone.