Join our Supply Chain Teams!
6-month internships starting between July and September 2024
Ile-de-France
It is 10:30 am, Pierre finishes a call with a Supply Planner from the UK, in charge of supplying clients with Garnier products. The country cannot reach consumers’ needs. Pierre must find a solution by looking at other European countries’ stock positions and business situation. There is no time to lose: he calls Germany! Meanwhile, he continues to manage his innovation project, which aims at creating new KPIs and a dashboard to monitor his service performance.
Are you inspired by the daily impact Pierre can have during his internship? You want to understand better the key role of Supply Chain for the leader company of the Beauty Tech?
Then this experience in Supply Chain at L’Oréal is right for you!
Joining L'Oréal means above all discovering a true industrial company delivering more than 7 billion products worldwide every year.
By joining the Supply Chain teams, you will deep dive in Operations, whose métiers contribute to the growth of L'Oréal, from product development, sourcing, production to the distribution of all the Group's products. As an ally of the brands, Operations always develops and seeks the most agile, innovative, efficient and responsible solutions to meet the specific requirements and diversity of consumers.
Your internship will allow you to discover one of these three fields:
- Manufacturing Supply Chain
- Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Customer Supply Chain
With distributors and consumers’ growing demands (personalization, service, management of various delivery modes, etc.),and the growth of e-commerce and freestanding stores, the supply chain has become a business driver, at the heart of the product and service offer.
With one order shipped every two seconds, the supply chain is becoming increasingly versatile and rapidly changing along with digital technology to respond to the changing market demands.
Depending on your Supply Chain field, here are some examples of missions you will have to perform:
- Create key performance indicators and monitoring tools for Supply Chain
- Manage stock levels in accordance with the objectives of the business.
- Analyze the supply planning strategy and make recommendations for improvement.
- Find and highlight Supply Chain best practices.
- Innovate, go further: bring your own ideas and impact!
What is in for you?
- 6 months surrounded by passionate teams.
- A learning experience where you can stretch yourself personally and professionally.
- A lot of challenges and opportunities to be seized and as many responsibilities to take.
- The opportunity to innovate and create the products of tomorrow.
- HR follow-up to accompany you throughout your journey.
- Salary: A compensation of 1700€ gross per month.
- Campus and infrastructures easily accessible for all.
- Unlimited access to the L'Oréal Learning Platform to boost your development.
- 1 day of remote working per week
- A bespoke development process guiding you towards a permanent position in the Group. Note that ~70% of our entry level roles are filed by previous interns/apprentices!
- And of course, access to discounted products from L'Oréal brands.
What do you need to apply ?
- You are a student with a master’s degree in engineeringSchool or Business / University.
- You are looking for a gap-year or end-of-studies internship.
- You can provide an internship agreement of 6 months issued by your school.
What qualities will help you land the internship?
- Convincing. You explain your ideas clearly, based on sound reasoning.
- Entrepreneurial. You like to try new things and discover new ways of doing!
- Team player. You have excellent interpersonal skills and easily find your place in a team.
- Open-minded. You exchange your ideas and integrate the opinions of others in order to find the optimal solution.
- Creative. You like to think outside the box and propose innovative solutions.
- Data champion. Working with data holds no secrets for you!
If your application is selected, you will be invited to a telephone interview with a recruiter. This is an exploratory discussion to getto know you better and identify the job, the field, the division that best fits with your profile.
Last step if the exploratory interview is positive: you will have the opportunity to meet your potential future manager for a second and finalinterview to discuss the missions you will be given.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much responsibility will I have as an intern?
As an intern at L’Oréal, you will be welcomed as a full member of a team, with your scope and responsibilities. Of course, you will not be alone: your manager will provide you with objectives and a vision. However, to succeed you will need to keep in mind that you play the main part in your journey and future projection in the Group. Entrepreneurship spirit is key.
Will I have a chance to land a job after my internship?
We take our interns and apprentices very seriously. So yes, it is our ultimate goal! In average, each year, former interns and apprentices fulfill 70% of our junior job needs. A very large number of our current employees at all levels have come through this type of experience.
I do not know anything about cosmetics: do I stand a chance?
Less than one-third of our interns have had previous experiences in the beauty industry. We give more credit to other essential qualities such as entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and the ability to question and dare.
Can you tell me a bit more about L’Oréal?
You can start by discovering the Group on our Website and Annual report.
Zoom in on the Operations business lines and watch our testimonials on YouTube.
Discover our social and environmental commitment, and how we aim to be a catalyst for change in the beauty industry and beyond with L’Oréal for the Future.
Meet Quentin, Supply Chain engineer at L’Oréal: BY THE WAY
L’Oréal is committed to building a diverse environment and is proud to bean equal opportunity employer. L’Oréal closely prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.