Retail Commercial & Activation Intern - July 2024

Job Description

Based: White City. London

Duration: 1Year

Start Dates:Monday 1st July 2024

Application Deadlines: Friday 27th October however roles are filled on a rolling basis

Annual Salary:£22,000 per annum

If you’re a results-driven worker with a strong eye for business, then there’s no better experience than an industrial placement with the Retail Commercial team at L'Oréal. We give you the responsibility you need to thrive and make a real difference during your time here.

As the employer of 1000s of Beauty Advisors across the country, our Retail Commercial Teams are in charge of ensuring they are driving results and operating effectively. This role sits within our Luxury division and will give you an amazing insight into team collaborations.

You will...

Working in our Luxury Division, you will be ensuring that our most prestige brands at L’Oréal are maintaining their reputation by supporting the head office & field teams on commercial activation and retail excellence in all POS across a variety of retailers.

Good communication is key! You will also use this skill to work closely with numerous other teams & stakeholders within L’Oréal such as Commercial, Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance, further broadening your experience with us.

Day-to-day you will…

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  Manage partnerships between Agencies and L’Oréal, fostering relationships to deliver positive business outcome

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  Work with key brand stakeholders to create the L’Oreal Luxe commercial and marketing calendars from the brand strategies. Developing the marketing and commercial plans from each individual brand ensuring a ‘One Luxe Approach’ to drive achievement of sales targets through the Multibrand portfolio
• Contribute to the continued growth of each brand portfolio through collaborating with brands & staekholders on the execution of new product launches & seasonal campaigns, ensuring retail execution of launches, commercial plans and customer centric retail across all POS

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  Collate and analyse sales performance on a weekly basis. Share regular feedback on results across the Multibrand portfolio. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting of portfolio sales results and category / launch insights

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  Support in building and managing the finance budget, tracking, and controlling

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  Be the lead on Multibrand and divisional projects that come up

You have...

In order to be successful in this role you will have:

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  A strong analytic background and the ability to study and interpret complex information to drive business decisions and highlight opportunities for growth

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  Confidence in growing relationships to influence actions and change

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  Excellent Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills

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  Excellent communication and presentation skills to cascade information across head office and field teams

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  Ability to problem solve and inquisitive nature to find a solution to an unknown problem

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  Strong organisational skills and ability to be agile prioritise effectively

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  Actively seek innovative business solutions and suggest new ideas

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  Proactive individual, able to self-manage projects, adjust priorities and work under pressure

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  Showcase a high level of autonomy to support the wider business

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  Promote a customer-centric attitude and ensure that you can balance and compliment the needs of the business

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.

You are...

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  In your second year at University on a course which enables you to take an Industrial Placement Year (unfortunately if you are graduated you are not eligible).

At L’Oréal, we strongly believe that diversity is a source of creativity, growth and performance. By promoting the respect and value of difference through human resources development, we have established ourselves as a global corporate citizen and a preferred employer. We aim for our teams to reflect the diversity both of our consumers and our catchment areas, at all levels, particularly in terms of nationality, sexual orientation, ethnic and social origins, disability, gender and age.

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.

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.

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