Commercial Industrial Placement 2025

If you’re a results-driven worker with a keen eye for business, then there’s no better experience than an industrial placement with the Commercial team at L'Oréal. We give you the responsibility you need to thrive and make a real difference during your time here.

We have multiple Commercial Industrial Placement roles which sit across lots of our brands/teams. Once you have been recruited, we use the feedback from your Assessment Centre to match you up to a role where you will thrive the most!

Working in one of our National Accounts Teams, you’ll be given the responsibility to liaise with major clients such as Boots, ASOS or John Lewis to name a few, and help strike successful commercial deals to provide mutually beneficial business solutions. You’ll be communicating with external companies and making smart business decisions, while using your analytical skills to make perceptive judgements.

As the face of L’Oréal to our retailers, good communication is key! You will also use this skill to work closely with numerous other teams within L’Oréal such as Marketing, Supply Chain and Finance, further broadening your experience with us.

Day-to-day you may be...

• Tracking and analysing sales figures, promotions and new product launches
• Supporting your team/account in tailoring new launches and maximising their success
• Accurately forecasting promotions and launch quantities
• Taking on and managing your own projects, long and short term with the potential to present your findings to senior management
• Attending product launch events in collaboration with our retailers as the face of L’Oreal
• Assisting our retailers on their social media platforms, working with the marketing teams to propose plans and implement them
• Regular in-store visits to track your brands, competitor activity and launches across all retailer
• Working with retailers on collaborative ideas to support growth in the account/brand

You have...

In order to be successful, in this role you will have:

• A result-driven mentality with an ability to achieve set objectives
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• A solid analytic background and the ability to study and interpret complex information to drive business decisions and highlight opportunities for growth
• Confident in using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Exceptional organisational skills and ability to prioritise effectively
• Confident in presenting
• Constantly seek innovative business solutions and suggest new ideas
• Proactive individual, able to self-manage projects, adjust priorities and work under pressure.
• Showcase a high level of autonomy to support your customers.

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 of university

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 preference, please only apply to that one role to ensure you are considered for the correct role.