PR and Communications Industrial Placement

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PR and Communications Industrial Placement

For a company like L'Oréal, press coverage, PR events and working with influencers is at the heart of everything we do. Representing our 35 international brands, each with its own voice is a challenge that takes a lot of creativity and tenacity.

Whether it’s a PR launch, help with organising an influencer trip, or coming up with ideas for a creative PR mailout, you’ll be creating the human face of the L'Oréal brand. It goes without saying that you should be a strong team player with a lively personality - this is a job as much about fun as hard work.

Working in the press office, you will help us to portray our brands in the best way possible to the press. This may include liaising day to day on specific products or offers to readers, or managing large-scale events. As an intern, your principal accountability would be to provide support to the press office in ensuring the smooth running of day to day business. You would be responsible for your own live projects within the team, with exposure to senior management.

You will…

• Manage product mail-outs, coming up with creative ideas for sendouts to encourage social sharing and press coverage
• Manage our media lists
• Help with supporting PR and influencer events, from PR launches to trips
• Work with external PR agency on a day to day basis
• Handle press calls & liaising with journalists
• Monitor influencers, newspapers and magazines for coverage and scanning for distribution, to share PR teams wins with the wider teams
• Help the team with social media, this could be captions, taking images for social channels and scheduling
• Ordering of product, stationary orders, post and couriers & press cuttings

You have…

• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Understanding of the beauty business
• Understanding of communications tools
• Capacity to understand the bigger business picture
• Have a technical mind but keen to work within the heart of a business
• Numerate and PC literate: in particular with strong Excel skills
• Strong networking skills and the ability to interact with all areas of the business

You are…

• Eligible to work in the UK
• 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).

At L’Oréal, we strongly believe that diversity is a source of creativity, growth and performance. By promoting the respect and value of difference through human resources development, we have established ourselves as a global corporate citizen and a preferred employer. We aim for our teams to reflect the diversity both of our consumers and our catchment areas, at all levels, particularly in terms of nationality, sexual orientation, ethnic and social origins, disability, gender and age.

About L’Oréal

With 34 world-famous brands selling in 140 countries, it’s easy to see why L’Oréal are the world’s No. 1 cosmetics group. Even our brands are household names in their own right. From Ralph Lauren to Diesel; Maybelline to Urban Decay, if there’s a name you love in cosmetics, there’s a good chance it’s ours. That’s because we have the best talent in the business, constantly working to invent and revolutionise the industry.

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