- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Department
- Supply Chain, Logistics & Inventory
- Posted
- Nov 4, 2026
About L’Oréal Luxe
L’Oréal Luxe is the L’Oréal division responsible for luxury fragrance, makeup and skincare. It operates beauty houses including Lancôme, Kiehl’s and Aesop, and develops products under licence for fashion houses including Prada and Giorgio Armani.
The S&OP Planner optimizes inventory and service levels for L’Oréal Luxe products sourced in North Asia, coordinating demand, production, inventory, catalogue productivity, launches, supply risks and financial projections with affiliates and cross-functional partners. This is a permanent, full-time role in Tokyo.
Role & Responsibilities
- Consolidate and analyze monthly supply needs from affiliates, challenge demand consistency against market trends and business strategies, and ensure optimal stock allocation.
- Collaborate with the factory to set production priorities and adjust plans, assessing its agility and capacity to integrate market requirements and upstream constraints such as batch sizes and lead times.
- Manage stock parameters to ensure coverage at the international distribution center and optimize the end-to-end supply chain, delivering high service rates while minimizing excess and obsolete inventory.
- Analyze product portfolio productivity and contribute to catalogue rationalization.
- Coordinate launch projects with key stakeholders: collect affiliate demand, recommend launch viability and stock strategy, and secure timely supply for market launches.
- Proactively address supply issues and propose and implement solutions with stakeholders when risks are anticipated.
- Participate in trend and budget projections in collaboration with Brand business, Finance and affiliates.
Qualifications
- Open-mindedness and a willingness to continuously learn and improve skills and knowledge.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills for navigating a complex, fast-paced business.
- Robust problem-solving skills and data-oriented analysis to support decision-making.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to manage large datasets across systems to evaluate root causes.
- Experience with data-driven scenario planning to drive decisions.
- Experience with SAP or an equivalent ERP system.
- Project management experience.
- Professional-level English and Japanese are required; Chinese is preferred.
Skills
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Benefits
An environment that supports learning, growth, responsibility from day one, and inclusion across backgrounds.
Culture
Some roles serve a single house or counter. Others span several houses, from advisors who present more than one fragrance line to planners who coordinate stock across the division.
About Cerulean
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Frequently Asked Questions
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