Join our Manufacturing Excellence Teams!

12-month apprenticeships starting in September 2024

Aulnay-Sous-Bois

It is 10:30 AM, Steven finishes a call about the implementation of an agile tool to customize products at the end of a manufacturing line. Next meeting: his manager asks him to benchmark digital and 4.0 innovations to increase the efficiency and agility of our factories.

As Steven, you dream of rethinking manufacturing and help factories to face new challenges?

Then this experience at L’Oréal is right for you!

Joining L’Oréal means above all discovering a true industrial company delivering more than 7 billion products worldwide every year.

By joining the Supply Chain teams, you will deep dive in Operations, whose métiers contribute to the growth of L’Oréal, from product development, sourcing, production to the distribution of all the Group’s products. As an ally of the brands, Operations always develops and seeks the most agile, innovative, efficient and responsible solutions to meet the specific requirements and diversity of consumers.

Our Manufacturing Excellence Teams, organized as a Network of Excellence, strives to deliver the best referentials, processes, tools and practices to help our plants to perform and remain admired as the industry reference in Safety, Quality, Sustainability, Responsiveness and Efficiency.

Its objectives :

• DEFINE POLICIES AND BUILD REFERENTIALS
• UPSKILL AND ANIMATE OUR COMMUNITIES MONITOR PERFORMANCE
• PROVIDE BENCHMARKS
• PERFORM AUDITS AND ASSESSMENTS PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT

The manufacturing excellence team ambition is to shift from a productivity-based model to an agile, efficient and sustainable manufacturing capability powered by data & technology (manufacturing 4.0).

You want to participate in the transformation of L’Oréal’s industrial world? You want to do your internship in a leading Beauty Tech company?

So… within this team you would be able to :

• Discover our L’Oréal manufacturing world, with our 38 factories worldwide and industrial equipment specificities
• Lead projects to help factories in improving their performance thanks to new tech.

• Create new tools by working with factories, IT teams, start-ups and help in the successful implementation of these tools

• Work on the drafting/update of internal materials, specifications for investment projects, and standard engineering protocols.

• Work with and improve current IT tools (Power Apps, SharePoint, etc.).

What is in for you?

• 12 months surrounded bypassionate teams.
• Alearning experiencewhere you can stretch yourself personally and professionally.
• A lot ofchallenges and opportunitiesto be seized and as many responsibilities to take.
• The opportunity toinnovateandcreatethe products of tomorrow.
• HR follow-upto accompany you throughout your journey.
• Campus and infrastructures easily accessible for all.
• Unlimited access to theL’Oréal Learning Platformto boost your development.
• 1 day of remote working per week
• A bespoke development process guiding you towards a permanent position in the Group. Note that ~70% of our entry level roles are filed by previous interns/apprentices!
• And of course, access to discounted products from L’Oréal brands.

What do you need to apply ?

• You are astudent with amaster’s degreein engineering school / University.
• You are looking for a gap-year or end-of-studies internship.
• Youcanprovide aninternship agreementof 6 months issued by your school.

What qualities will help you land the apprenticeship?

• Convincing . You explain your ideas clearly, based on sound reasoning.
• Entrepreneurial . You like to try new things and discover new ways of doing!
• Team player . You have excellent interpersonal skills and easily find your place in a team.
• Open-minded . You exchange your ideas and integrate the opinions of others in order to find the optimal solution.
• Creative . You like to think outside the box and propose innovative solutions.
• Data champion . Working with data holdsno secrets for you!

If yourapplicationis selected, you will be invited to a telephone interview with a recruiter. This is an exploratory discussion to getto know you better and identify the job, the field, the division that best fits with your profile.

Last step if the exploratory interview is positive: you will have the opportunity to meet your potential future manager for a second and final interview to discuss the missions you will be given.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much responsibility will I have as an apprentice?

As an apprentice at L’Oréal, you will be welcomed as a full member of a team, with your scope and responsibilities. Of course, you will not be alone: your manager will provide you with objectives and a vision. However, to succeed you will need to keep in mind that you play the main part in your journey and future projection in the Group. Entrepreneurship spirit is key.

Will I have a chance to land a job after myapprenticeship ?

We take our interns and apprentices very seriously. So yes, it is our ultimate goal! In average, each year, former interns and apprentices fulfill 70% of our junior job needs. A very large number of our current employees at all levels have come through this type of experience.

I do not know anything about cosmetics: do I stand a chance?

Less than one-third of our interns have had previous experiences in the beauty industry. We give more credit to other essential qualities such as entrepreneurial spirit, innovation, and the ability to question and dare.

Can you tell me a bit more about L’Oréal?

You can start by discovering the Group onour Website and Annual report.

Zoom in on the Operations business lines and watch our testimonials on YouTube.

Discover our social and environmental commitment, and how we aim to be a catalyst for change in the beauty industry and beyond with L’Oréal for the Future .

Meet Quentin, Supply Chain engineer at L’Oréal: BY THE WAY

L’Oréal is committed to building a diverse environment and is proud to bean equal opportunity employer. L’Oréal closely prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race,color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.