2024 Direct Sourcing Internship / Co-Op (6-month)

Who We Are:

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. 

At L'Oréal Operations, we create innovative, inclusive, and sustainable beauty together with our business partners by designing, developing, sourcing, manufacturing, and distributing over 6 billion products globally every year. We support over 36 brands across four L’Oréal divisions. We are consumer-oriented, and we act responsibly all along the value chain.

What You Will Learn:

The Direct Sourcing Co-Op will assist with a range of responsibilities in sourcing including:

• Supporting the strategic sourcing needs of the category or business team manager.        Assisting with financial reporting, spend analysis, data management and supplier evaluation & communication. 
• Business team roles: Experience a new launch process and support project management including value analysis and business contingency projects. 

• Category team roles: Support the execution of LOREAL Sourcing process including category deep-dives, category strategy development, and sourcing approach identification. 
• Manage a strategic project from needs analysis through recommendation and implementation.
  1. Coordinate with buyers, suppliers and extended cross-functional teams on sourcing requirements. 
  2. Create all required documentation including RFI's, RFP's, bid analysis documents, and negotiation reports and/or internal database.
• Consistently seek feedback from and deliver feedback to manager and stakeholders and drive continuous progress on self-development. 

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• Currently in Junior or Senior year of undergrad or first year of master's degree candidate with a minimum 3.2 GPA
• Pursuing a degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or similar discipline
• Must possess excellent analytical and communication skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly MS Excel
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Ability to handle multiple assignments simultaneously and effectively meet deadlines 
• Prior internship in relevant area is a plus
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the United States on an ongoing, permanent basis
• Must be available to work up to 40 hours per week

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We would love to find out more about you as a candidate and do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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