At L'Oréal, whether you are an intern, manager, or senior leader, the most valuable asset we have is you. Your unique sense of curiosity, creative mindset, and desire to innovate are what we expect you to bring with you every day.
The L’Oréal USA Summer Internship Program is a paid, 11-week experience where you will be fully integrated into the day-to-day activities of a team while also leading your own, individual strategic project to discover what it is truly like to develop a career at the world’s #1 Beauty company. We are committed to giving our interns the space to explore, to have full time employee responsibilities, present their own insights to senior management, and to become future leaders. At the end of the summer, you will present your project to senior leadership for the opportunity to be considered for a full-time return offer into our Management Trainee program.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so it is highly encouraged to apply sooner rather than later before the September 30, 2024, deadline. We encourage students of diverse backgrounds to apply, including, but not limited to race, ethnicity, gender expression, LGBTQ+, military status, and people with disabilities.
What You’ll Do:
Become immersed into L’Oreal North America’s Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Team and help to implement L’Oreal for the Future, our global program designed to transform L’Oreal towards an increasingly sustainable business model and contribute to solving the challenges facing the world.
At L’Oreal, achieving our sustainability goals depends on the mobilization of a number of key functions whose processes and decisions impact our social and environmental footprint. In this role, you will work on projects where sustainability intersects with the work of our Sourcing, Packaging Engineering, IT, and Marketing teams. Examples of some projects you might work on include:
- Work on projects to embed sustainable practices and reduce waste across L’Oréal’s business operations and may focus on solutions like inventory management, product donations, and recycling
- Support L’Oreal USA’s sustainable sourcing initiatives, including supply chain data collection and analysis and supplier engagement on key topics like carbon reduction
- Research and execute on projects that help to further the achievement of our sustainable packaging goals, including helping us to understand policy and NGO perspectives on packaging
- Support our marketing teams in communicating on L’Oreal’s and our brands’ sustainability efforts that will most resonate with our consumers, including researching and digesting consumer insights on sustainability and developing materials to support retailer engagement on sustainability
You will also have the opportunity to support the CSR team in our work on philanthropy, sustainability communications and employee learning and engagement.
Through these projects, you will:
- Network cross functionally to learn about how all our functions (Digital, Supply Chain, Finance, R&I and Sales, etc.) impact sustainability
- Deepen your understanding of key sustainability issues and understand how they apply in the context of global business
- Hone your presentation, collaboration, project management and communications skills
Who you are:
- Minimum Requirements:
- Currently enrolled in a 4-year college or university pursuing a bachelor’s degree with an expected graduation between December 2025 – July 2026 in:
- Able to start working fulltime starting September 2026 upon graduation with your bachelor’s degree
- Legally authorized to work in the US on a fulltime, permanent, and ongoing basis without requiring sponsorship now or in the future
- Willing to relocate to our L’Oreal Headquarters offices in New York, NY for the internship program
Stand-out Qualifications:
- Available to work the entirety of the 11-week summer internship program in 2025
- Showcased ability to work in a professional, dynamic environment through previous internship or relevant work experience. This includes part-time work, work study, side-gigs, freelancing, volunteering, summer work, or internships
- Demonstrated leadership ability and interest in Sustainability and CSR through your academics, extra-curricular activities, or professional/volunteer work
- Established self-awareness, in terms of understanding your own culture, identity, biases, prejudices, power, privilege and stereotypes
Skills Key to Success in Sustainability:
- You are both collaborative and self-motivated - you enjoy brainstorming and problem-solving solutions with others and can also execute on individual projects
- You are resilient and able to bounce back with positivity and persistence
- You are curious and willing to ask questions
- You are a strong project manager with the ability to collaborate with multiple partners to achieve a common goal
- You are an effective communicator and have effective time management skills to work with both your peers and upper management to move projects along
- Professional development & social programming is an integral part of your internship experience to understand our culture. From networking events to trainings to meeting with your mentor, your calendar will always be full!
- There are many perks to being a summer intern, but two standout ones are access to our company store, that has steep discounts on L’oreal products, and our Summer Friday program – every Friday during your internship is a half day!
- Our summer internship is the primary path for consideration into L’Oreal’s full-time Sales Management Trainee Program upon graduation and is based on overall performance.
ABOUT L’OREAL
Innovation has fueled L'Oréal’s business for more than 100 years and we will rely on our culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to help us continually evolve. L'Oréal’s dynamic culture provides its employees with entrepreneurial freedom and opportunities to drive transformation across its €29.87B business, encompassing over 35 brands, around the globe. In the US, we have 12,000 employees working collaboratively across 14 states to build leading edge technologies, launch highly personalized products, reimagine consumer experiences, and develop creative solutions to reduce our environmental footprint.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application for a recognized disability under applicable law, please email [email protected]. Please note this email will only respond to specific requests for assistance completing the application as a request for accommodation for a disability. All others will not be considered.
Get an insider's look at what it's really like to intern at L'Oréal, and discover how our programs can launch your career. Register for our exclusive masterclass, "Your Future Starts Now: L'Oréal USA Early Careers Masterclass" on September 11th at 6:30-8:00pm EST!