L'Oréal - 6-month internship - sourcing / purchasing - July 2025 - 1700€

By joining the Purchasing 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. 

More precisely, you will have the chance to work within one of our wide variety of purchasing areas: 

DIRECT PURCHASING

• Raw materials: Various raw materials are used in the composition of formulas and the manufacture of products: polymers, natural ingredients, perfumes, sun filters, vitamins... L'Oréal sources its raw materials from specialist suppliers, committed to the constant search for quality and safety.
• Packaging: The purpose of packaging is to protect and enhance the product. For L'Oréal, it is essential that our packaging is innovative and environmentally friendly.
• Contract Manufacturing: In addition to its own in-house plants, the Group uses a panel of subcontracting companies for packaging or the manufacture of specific finished products (soaps, pencils, wipes...) and logistics services.  

INDIRECT PURCHASING

• Retail & Promotion: Promotion of products is a strategic area of communication for L'Oréal brands. Point-of-sale advertising and promotional items are important ways of winning over consumers. They require creativity, innovation and a competitive edge from suppliers of multi-material POS displays (metal, plastic, wood, etc.), cardboard displays, boxes, printing (notices, book, etc.) and consumer gift accessories (luggage, textiles, accessories, etc.).
• Marketing Services: Similarly, and as a complement to Retail and Promo, the brands rely on Marketing Services aimed at making the products known and accompanying the consumer at the point of sale. These include creative agencies, post-production, advertising space, and market research, not forgetting digital media.
• Business Services: Various expenses are essential to the smooth running and development of the Group. These general and administrative expenses are all the costs incurred by L'Oréal to carry out its activities, excluding production costs. In other words, they include all expenses related to Human Resources, Consulting, IT & Telecom, Facility Management & Utilities, Travel, Events, etc. This Purchasing area handles all expenses for L'Oréal sites worldwide.
• Industrial and Devices: In order to equip and operate the production lines of its factories around the world, L'Oréal works on a daily basis with many industry suppliers specialized in manufacturing equipment, packaging machinery and industrial utilities.
• Excellence Team: The role of the Excellence Team is to define the global purchasing strategy while working on common projects to the different areas. These teams work in particular on tools but also on projects guaranteeing the conformity of purchases at the international level.

Depending on your area of Purchasing, here are some examples of missions you may have to carry out:  

• Develop purchases initiatives to optimize the costs and create value
• Build and follow calls for tender
• Participate in projects: Business Review, animation of the purchasing community, market studies, suppliers' mapping, and analysis of portfolio…
• Come in support to the implementation and to the deployment of the strategy of the category
• Set up key indicators and strengthen the purchasing data
• And innovate, go further: bring your own ideas and impact!