Marketing Industrial Placement

Marketing Industrial Placement

Based: L’Oréal UK

Location: Hammersmith
Duration: 54 weeks

Start date: Monday 25^th June 2018
Annual Salary: £18,000 per annum

Role Description

For a company 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.

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.

Principle Accountabilities

• Competitor analysis:  pricing and market awareness/tracking

• Project Management; 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

About You

• Good all-round performer with emphasis on creativity and numerical skill
• Able to work autonomously
• Sense of initiative and problem solving
• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Able work to deadlines whilst under pressure
• Proactive, with a keen eye for improved efficiency
• Strong attention to detail

Please note that once you have submitted your application the Graduate Team will be reviewing it at the first available opportunity. However, in some instances you may be waiting a number of weeks to be hearing back from us due to other team constraints.