Business Development Industrial Placement 2025

L'Oréal sells 50 products every second worldwide. (That's over 4 million products a day, if you're wondering.). As a Business Development Intern you'll be working on growing our five main product categories; haircare, hair colour, fragrances, cosmetics and skincare. The Business Development Team strengthens the relationship between retailer and supplier enabling greater collaboration to exchange information, share data and build growth of the category together. You will... In this role you will be thinking of unique ways in which we can improve these categories and communicate them effectively to retailers. The role also provides significant exposure to both the Sales and Marketing teams which will develop your project management skills, test your communication skills, efficiency, co-ordination and interpersonal skills, with plenty of opportunity for you to work on your own projects. Day-to-day you may be...

• Supporting the team by generating reports and recommendations on how we can continue to grow our categories.
• Building strong relationships with both Marketing and Commercial teams.
• Building reports to help the team understand what is happening in the external market.
• Undertaking competitor analysis and help to feed new ideas into the wider brand strategy.
• Helping suggest improvements in reporting/process which can help the team be more efficient., 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...
• 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).
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.


• Strong interpersonal skills and management potential
• An ability to work within tight deadlines
• Organisation skills, proactivity and you are able to plan effectively
• Strong attention to detail with high levels of accuracy
• A logical, solutions focused mind set
• Strong analytical skills