IT Intern (Open Innovation) (Jul 2024)

About L'Oréal

L'Oréal is the world's largest cosmetics company headquartered in France. It manufactures a large choice of products such as across all categories: skincare, make-up, hair care, hair color, fragrances, and others, including hygiene.

Your role

As an IT Intern, you will:

• Create and distribute engaging newsletters showcasing recent developments, innovative projects, and noteworthy achievements within the digital innovation community.
• Plan and execute monthly tech talks, bringing together internal and external experts to discuss emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in the digital innovation space.
• Conduct insightful interviews with key figures in the innovation community, sharing their experiences, challenges, and visions for the future.
• Identify and assess potential partners (startups, SaaS providers, etc.) aligned with the company's innovation goals, providing comprehensive reports for decision-making.
• Monitor the market for emerging innovations, technologies, and trends, providing regular reports on their potential impact and relevance to the company.
• Provide business analysis and project management support for selected innovation projects, ensuring successful execution of Proof of Concepts.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive framework for open innovation, including new processes, guidelines, and documentation to streamline collaboration with external partners.

Training & development

L'Oréal Internship is a 6-month full-time program (1 July 2024 – 10 Jan 2025) designed for ambitious, compassionate, resilient, and agile students looking to kickstart their professional journey! You will be paired with an assigned manager who will help guide you throughout your internship. The Internship programs provide you with an orientation tailored to the length of your placement, giving you real insights into the workings of a multinational industry leader.

Benefits

L'Oréal ensures that all its employees around the world have access to the best social protection, healthcare coverage, and well-being at work.

• Performance Bonus.
• Flexible Working.
• Professional Development.

Career progression

At L’Oréal, there is never a dull day, the beauty lies in the freedom to go beyond with its empowering entrepreneurial culture. You will be given responsibilities and goals to work on supporting business operations and delivering a real impact to brands, people, consumers, customers, suppliers, and other partners.

You will gain from this Internship:

• Understanding of effective communication strategies in a corporate setting.
• Development of soft skills such as time management, problem-solving, planning, collaborative skills, etc.
• Increased knowledge of emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Experience in competitor profiling.

Work-life balance

L’Oréal extends flexibility in working organization and considers new ways of working to answer the collective need of working differently, in a more agile and flexible way. They elevate its Workspaces to the highest level to offer every employee a fulfilling work experience in the office.

Company culture

Whether you’re an Intern or an Apprentice, you can expect to bring your whole self to work. They embrace differences and celebrate what makes them unique. You will feel empowered at all stages of your career; to ask why, to ask why not, and to present your bold new ideas.

About you

To apply for this role, you must be:

• University students currently pursuing Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees in Singapore. Students from other institutes of higher education (e.g. Polytechnics) are also welcome!
• Background in Business, Information Systems, Communications, Entrepreneurship or Innovation.
• Good communication and project management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign , Canva, Trello, Miro, Typeform, Figma, Sktech are advantageous but not mandatory.
• Interest in new technologies is essential.
• Passionate in joining FMCG & beauty industries is a plus.

How to apply

• Step 1: Hit apply and fill in the requested information. Be sure to upload your CV.
• Step 2: Complete Technical Tests (only sent to candidates who are eligible for internship).
• Step 3: If your profile is shortlisted, you will hear from one of the recruiters over the phone.
• Step 4: Interviews with HR and Hiring Manager(s). No Assessment center will be conducted for this role.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• loreal.com
• careers.loreal.com
• youtube.com/l'Oréal