Operations Assessment Center 2023

Job description

1-year apprenticeship | From September 2023 | Paris area | Master 1 or 2 | Many opportunities

“ Nos marques sont nos titres de noblesse”

Jean Paul Agon

Dive into the life of one division!

As a pure player, L’Oréal intends to offer the right product to the right consumer, through different paths. Whether you like to buy your beauty products in supermarkets, pharmacies, hairdressers, perfumeries or even online, L’Oréal will have a various range of products to propose to you. During your internship, you will have the chance to discover the secrets of a division and the reasons for its success:

Consumer Product Division : embrace the universe of a fast-paced environment which accounts for 50% of L’Oréal turnover and have an impact on the products you will see on the shelves of your next-door supermarket

Luxury division : high-quality formulas, breath-taking experiences, premium and personalized products are the key for the timeless success of our 22 international luxury brands

Active cosmetics division : health is the future of beauty. Turning science into beauty is the mantra of our 6 Active Cosmetics brands, and this has been made possible thanks to our powerful innovation & the passion of our professional experts such as dermatologists, pharmacists and medical advisers.

Professional Products Division : the historical division of L’Oréal is now all about transformation, disruptive trends and colorful creativity. Our brands from Professional Products Division live through the expertise of our hairdressers & beauty specialists, distributing our 10 diverse brands through beauty and hair salons

What missions are we talking about?

Within the commercial department of a division, you will be able to work on one of the following missions (we will discuss more about what you would prefer to do during the HR interview)

1. Key Account Manager

You will be at the heart of the negotiation with our clients, embracing the challenging stakes of your division's business, and working with a team entitled to negotiate and deploy the brands' commercial strategies. 

You will help in the preparation of the negotiations and client meetings, participate in the analysis and recommendations on the product mix & promotion strategies and the merchandising. You will become the best ally to our sales force, helping them to deploy the different strategies agreed in the head quarter. 

Thanks to your strong analytical and negotiation skills, you will participate in the never-ending challenge of an increasing turnover.

2. Business analyst

If you have strong analytical skills and enjoy understanding the numbers to make the best recommendations, this mission is for you! You will have a real impact on the optimization and the monitoring of our sales results and will become an expert of the cosmetics industry and its evolution. 

·  Follow up of the key indicators of performance (turnover, market shares, profitability of different categories...) 
·  Market analysis and follow up using different panels and tools 
·  Analysis of the different actions put in place and recommendation for improvement (launches, promotions...) 

3. Business development 

With your entrepreneurship spirit, you will help in increasing our sales results and will be led to find creative solutions to help our sales force to maintain our positions. You will develop your reactivity, your creativity, as well as your ability to work in a team!

·  Become the main point of contact for our sales force
·  Development and optimization of the different tools used by the latter to sell our innovations and gain market shares on point of sales
·  Creation of sales pitches and presentations with marketing teams

STILL INTERESTED ? 

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED!

·  A  Master student 
·  Creative Entrepreneur : courageous and adventurous. Every single day, you spot opportunities to shake things up and change the world for the better. There’s no blueprint for the future. You’ll have to design it yourself! 
·  People oriented . You’re not afraid of new ways of doing things or of other people’s (sometimes crazy) ideas. Here, we cherish and celebrate diversity so you’ll feel right at home whoever you are. 
·  Respectful . Whether you’re talking to our CEO (this can happen! ) or a salon owner round the block, you treat everyone the same.
·  Willingness to  own the strategic level  direction whilst maintaining a  passion for grass-roots
·  Critical thinking with strong decision-making abilities
·  Confidence in a fast-paced and ever-changing dynamic environment
·  Strong capability with quantitative and qualitative measures

Your advantages

·  Monthly Salary : According to Legislation
·  Access to Participation and profit-sharing 
·  Unlimited access to the L’Oréal “MyLearning Platform” to boost your competencies development
·  VIP access to the internal L'Oréal online shop to buy and test our products
·  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 ! 

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