Based: White City, London
Duration: 10 weeks
Start Dates: Monday 30th June 2025
Application Deadlines: February 28th 2024
Annual Salary: £24,000 pro rata
For accompany like L'Oréal, consumer satisfaction is at the core of everything we do. Selling our 34 international brands is a challenge that takes a lot of creativity and tenacity. As a Marketing intern you’ll be placed into one of these exciting brands and are expected to get stuck in, thinking of innovative ways to tailor our products to a UK audience.
We have multiple Marketing Industrial Placement roles which sit across lots of our brands/teams. Once you have been recruited, we use the feedback from your Assessment Centre to match you up to a role where you will thrive the most! This could be roles which are more social media focused, roles focused on medical marketing or even more commercially focused marketing roles. Please be prepared to be open-minded with the role that we select for you and trust we will find you the perfect role for you!
We have a range of exciting roles that sat within Marketing, These include;
- Brand Engagement
- General Marketing
- Product Marketing
- E-Commerce
And many others!
You will...
Marketing within the fast moving consumer goods sector is dynamic, reactive and requires plenty of unique ideas for how L'Oréal can best stand out. You’ll be working on your own live projects and briefs, where you’ll be assessing our competitors, supporting on brand launches and working closely with commercial, visual merchandising and digital to enable a full 360 marketing campaign.
Day-to-day you may be...
* Performing a competitor analysis: pricing and market awareness/tracking
* Managing projects; including adaptation of international product concepts/advertising to the UK
* Budgeting; forecasting costs accurately, tracking spend and ability to save costs where appropriate
* Data analysis; extracting the correct data for analysis, and ability to interpret and relay the data.
* Creative strategy; manage campaigns with both clear strategic and innovative input.
* Designing; briefing artwork agencies on designs for product packaging and point of sale materials and supporting the process through design and print until the materials reach the retailer
* Brainstorming new ingredient and name ideas, reviewing product submissions, evaluating the beauty market and voting on final product names and packaging
You have...
In order to be successful in this role you will have:
* Sense of initiative and problem solving
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills
* An ability to work to deadlines whilst under pressure
* Proactivity, with a keen eye for improved efficiency
* Strong attention to detail
* Good all-round performer with emphasis on creativity and numerical skill.
* Able to work autonomously
You are...
* Returning to university following your summer internship (unfortunately if you have graduated already or will graduate before the start date you will not be eligible for this role).
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We are signatories of the Race at Work Charter led by Business in the Community and are committed to improving employment opportunities for people of colour across the UK. We also welcome applications from LGB and Trans and non-binary candidates.
Next steps...
Once you click apply you will be asked some questions to check you are eligible for this role. These will be questions around your current situation, whether you’re happy with the salary, location etc.
If you are eligible to apply, you will then be sent a link via email to ‘Step 2’ of the application process; the online assessments. Keep an eye out for this (it might even land in your spam folder!). Although there is no deadline for completion, the quicker you submit your answers the quicker we can continue to move you through the process!
Once we have your results, our recruiters will conduct a final review of your entire application and if successful, invite you to an Assessment Centre. Please be patient with us as we receive a high volume of applications and want to spend time going through each of them.
Our Assessment Centres this year will mostly be in person, they will be running from when applications open until the roles are filled. These Assessment Centres are specific to function, so please be patient if you don’t get invited straight away – it might just be because your function’s Assessment Centre date isn’t until later on in the recruitment period!
Please note, if you apply for more than one role you will be put forward for the one we deem most suitable for you. If you have a strong preference, please only apply to that one role to ensure you are considered for the correct role.