Project Management Industrial Placement 2025

The Team

Think IT involves sitting at a desk staring at a computer screen all day? Think again. L'Oréal is looking for a PMO Intern who enjoys working with people, processes, and problem-solving. You’ll be working with the Northern Europe Portfolio Management Officer to support and guide the 4 Northern Europe teams on how to manage and deliver their projects in a best-in-class way. This might mean running coaching or training, collaborating with centralised teams on improvements, or delivering part of a transformational project yourself.

As an innovative global company, technology is at the heart of everything we do, so we’re looking for someone who can rise to the challenge of introducing, embedding and tracking changes, and taking people on the journey with you. You’ll be on the move in a busy and fast-paced environment, tackling different problems and working with a variety of teams at all levels, so excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must.

You will...

• Manage the portfolio of projects for the 4 Northern Europe hubs, meeting regularly with the teams to discuss upcoming projects, resource needs and keeping central information up to date
• Own the tracking and consolidation of regular project status reporting, escalating risks and dependencies when necessary
• Support the research, set-up & roll-out of a new transformation workstream across IT Europe zone
• Support the embedding of project management & agile methodologies, including their translation into workable tools & templates
• Work with the Northern Europe Portfolio Management Officer to rollout, embed and monitor Global and Zone Governance processes
• Contribute to process improvement and help maintain best practice through the gathering of feedback and suggesting improvements
• Contribute to the evolution of our IT Europe PMO community
• Gain awareness of project management practices and methodologies

You have...

• Must be self-motivated with high sense of ownership
• Highly organised, accurate and excellent attention to detail
• A passion for successful project delivery
• A good level of Microsoft Office suite of products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Great interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced project environment and under pressure
• Excellent team player

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates. 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 solid preference, please only apply to that one role to ensure you are considered for the correct role.