Sustainability Industrial Placement 2025

Sustainability & L4TF Industrial Placement

Based: White City, London

Duration: 1 Year

Start Dates: Monday 30th June 2025

Application Deadlines: Friday 25th October 2024, however roles are filled on a rolling basis

Annual Salary: £24,000 per annum

At L’Oréal, we take pride in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, and their contributions are valued. When we recruit, hire, train, promote or engage in any other employment practice, we are committed to being an inclusive employer regardless of race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, socioeconomic status, medical condition or disability, or any other protected status. When we look for talent, we welcome difference - different backgrounds, experiences, personalities, and perspectives. The beauty we find in our differences gives us the freedom to go beyond. That’s the beauty of L’Oréal.

KEY MISSION

The Sustainability Intern will be responsible for supporting the UK & I Sustainability Director in delivering on the country L4TF targets, whilst being accountable for the maintenance of key social sustainability strategies, delivery of circular economy pilot projects and empowerment of the UKI L4TF community through various communication responsibilities.

They will be working across divisions and functions to simplify and harmonise social sustainability strategies, whilst strengthening relations with external stakeholders and charity partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

SUPPORT THE DELIVERY OF L’OREAL FOR THE FUTURE

• Support the implementation of the Group’s L’Oreal for the Future programme in the UK and Ireland, working in close partnership with colleagues across the business to ensure we achieve our commitments on all three pillars:
• Drive Internal Transformation
• Catalyse Ecosystem Change
• Transform Beauty Routines
• For instance: be involved in the development of circular economy pilot projects and contribute to No Waste commitments or conduct research on packaging take-back schemes.

SIMPLIFY & HARMONISE

• Support in the animation of the local sustainability leadership team and relevant task-forces and working groups through general administrative support
• Connect with internal stakeholders to harmonise and clarify key social sustainability strategies
• Support the design of internal sustainability policies and procedures that factor in Group guidance and market existing practices.

EMPOWER OUR PEOPLE

• Support the sustainability team in planning internal events and celebrations
• Increase communication of L4TF through maintenance of the My Hub, Teams & content for weekly My Week newsletters
• Increase engagement with employee charity engagement schemes such as match-funding & volunteering opportunities by simplifying processes and communicating resources
• Collaborate with the Next Gen Committee to encourage L4TF engagement within the Apprentice & Intern cohort. E.g. – Planning events, communicating strategy, and developing opportunities to get involved
• Liaise with the Learning team to organise and facilitate key upskilling opportunities for staff including the organising of off-site visits.

REPORT PROGRESS

• Support in the compilation of the UK&I annual sustainability report
• Capture sustainability case-studies and success stories as and when required
• Work cross divisionally to maintain a database of sustainable innovations within the business.

INCREASE REPUTATION & SOCIAL VALUE

• Maintain and build warm relations with key Corporate Charity Partners
• Maintain the charity engagement inbox to provide a centralised space for guidance and communication of Philanthropy
• Maintain charity donation platforms (e.g. Globechain) by facilitating regular donations and collaboration activities with a range of NGOs and community partners
• Conduct due diligence checks of potential NGO partners for a range of charitable activities (e.g. brand causes, product and financial donations, volunteering opportunities)
• Explore avenues to develop community projects and partnerships

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Delivery of sustainability projects linked to priority commitments
• Events and training planning support
• Due diligence checks of new NGO partners
• Maintenance of employee charity engagement applications, of product and item donations platforms (Globechain, Thrive) and of Sustainability Teams and My Hub channels

YOU HAVE:

• Passion for environmental and social sustainability
• Organisational skills to deliver on projects alongside everyday responsibilities
• Integration into a range of project teams with employees from different divisions and functions
• Attention to detail
• Research and analysis
• Ability to communicate on sustainability and CSR effectively

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!