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Join L'Oréal: As the #1 beauty company in the world with over 37 international brands - CeraVe, Kiehl's, Maybelline, Prada Beauty, and Redken to name just a few - we embrace diversity and inclusion, sustainability, innovation, and well-being in the workplace to lay the groundwork for you to be able to help drive the future of beauty.
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 L'Oreal. 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 beginning August 14th through September 30th. We encourage students of diverse backgrounds to apply, including, but not limited to: race, ethnicity, gender expression, LGBTQ+, military status, and people with disabilities.
Who You Are:

• Ambitious students currently enrolled in a 4-year college or university who are expected to graduate between December 2027 - July 2028
• Trendsetters and innovative thinkers who want to create the beauty that moves the world
• No prior industry experience is necessary to apply
• Minimum Requirements:

• Able to start working full-time starting September 2028 upon graduation with your bachelor's degree
• Authorization to work in the United States on a full-time, permanent, ongoing basis is required. No immigration support/sponsorship offered for this role.
• Minimum 3.5 GPA
• Willing to relocate to any USA-based office that has a summer internship opportunity, including:

• New York, New York
• El Segundo, California

What You'll Do:
Become immersed into L'Oreal North America's Sustainability 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 global challenges.
At L'Oreal, achieving our sustainability goals depends on the mobilization of several 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 Sustainability team in our work on philanthropy, sustainability communications and employee learning and engagement.

The Program:

• This is a paid internship opportunity. Housing assistance is provided on an individual basis based on eligibility per our L'Oréal Relocation Policy.
• All interns will be paired with a mentor and buddy to help guide you through your internship
• Professional development & social programming is an integral part of your internship experience to understand our culture. From networking events to trainings, your calendar will always be full!

What's In It For You:

• Salary Range: $27-$30 per hour (The actual compensation will depend on a variety of job-related factors which may include geographic location)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home)
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO), Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L'Oréal's Internal Shop for Discounted Products)
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Relocation Assistance (if eligible per L'Oreal's relocation policy)

Being a member of the L'Oréal USA Summer Internship Program, you will feel empowered to contribute to tangible, meaningful ways from day one because in an organization founded on entrepreneurism and agility, your ideas are not only heard and valued, but they are often put into practice.
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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 37 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.
Don't meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and 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.
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