Graduate Management Trainee – Marketing (London)

L'OREAL GROUP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rotational program

Mentoring

Global exposure

London HQ access

Job summary

L'Oréal Group in London offers a Marketing Management Trainee program with three 6-month rotations across diverse brands and marketing functions over an 18-month journey, reporting to a Marketing Manager in each rotation. Applications close 20 November.

You will contribute to go-to-market launches, support promotions with sales and retail teams, and analyze brand performance using market data, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to keep timelines on track.

Qualifications

• Ability to explore consumer aspirations, cultural context, and everyday routines to identify emerging brand opportunities.
• Brand identity and purpose across digital, physical, and retail touchpoints.
• Structure workflows, coordinate multi-stakeholder actions, and meet operational deadlines.
• Interpret diverse market datasets and commercial metrics to extract practical business insights.
• Work collaboratively across diverse cross-functional teams in an open and supportive environment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to go-to-market product launches by coordinating agency deliverables, creative assets, and point-of-sale execution.
• Support commercial activations by partnering with sales and retail teams to prepare promotional plans and retailer presentations.
• Assist in tracking brand and competitor performance using market share data, brand health trackers, and consumer panel insights.
• Help manage media campaigns across social, e-commerce, and influencer touchpoints, monitoring budgets and delivery schedules.
• Participate in transversal project teams across supply chain, regulatory, and sales to keep product release schedules on track.

Skills

Consumer Understanding

Brand Building

Project Planning

Data Analysis

Collaboration

Job description

Marketing Management Trainee - London 2028

Hello, we're L'Oréal. We're not just building brands, we're shaping how the world experiences beauty (and it takes a lot of cool jobs to do it).Intrigued? Keep reading, this might be the opportunity you've been searching for.

A Day in the Life

Based at our UK headquarters in White City, London, you will complete three 6-month rotations across diverse brands and marketing functions over an 18-month journey, reporting to a Marketing Manager in each rotation (applications close 20 November).

• Contribute to go-to-market product launches by coordinating agency deliverables, creative assets, and point-of-sale execution.
• Support commercial activations by partnering with sales and retail teams to prepare promotional plans and retailer presentations.
• Assist in tracking brand and competitor performance using market share data, brand health trackers, and consumer panel insights.
• Help manage media campaigns across social, e-commerce, and influencer touchpoints, monitoring budgets and delivery schedules.
• Participate in transversal project teams across supply chain, regulatory, and sales to keep product release schedules on track.

We Are Looking For

You bring curiosity, entrepreneurial drive, and an eagerness to learn how global beauty brands connect with real consumers. You bring:

• Consumer Understanding: Ability to explore consumer aspirations, cultural context, and everyday routines to identify emerging brand opportunities.
• Brand Building: Skill in articulating clear brand identity and purpose across digital, physical, and retail touchpoints.
• Project Planning Management: Capacity to structure workflows, coordinate multi-stakeholder actions, and meet operational deadlines.
• Data Analysis: Comfort interpreting diverse market datasets and commercial metrics to extract practical business insights.
• Cooperation: Readiness to work collaboratively across diverse cross-functional teams in an open and supportive environment.

What's In It For You

• A place for you to leave your comfort zone and grow beyond your potential (here, you'll be encouraged to try new things and take risks!)
• Real responsibility from day 1, there's no sitting on the sidelines at L'Oréal
• An environment where people of every ethnicity, social background, age, religion, gender and sexual orientation as well as people with disabilities are accepted, can speak up, will thrive and are celebrated!
• A place where you can contribute to something bigger! Many of our brands have societal/environmental causes to make a concrete difference

Who We Are

You will be part of an international, diverse team where fresh ideas are welcomed from your very first day. We give you early ownership of projects, structured mentoring, and tailored developmental pathways so you can turn your potential into tangible business impact.

We create the beauty that moves the world across four unique divisions: Luxe, Consumer Products, Dermatological Beauty, and Professional Products. In Marketing, you act as the heartbeat of our brands, connecting consumer desire with product innovation across physical, digital, and omnichannel spaces.

We’re committed to guaranteeing inclusive recruitment processes and to advocating for hiring and promoting each candidate in an ethical and equitable way. The Group strictly prohibits discrimination against any applicant for employment because of the individual’s gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, visible and/or invisible disabilities, socio-economic and/or multicultural origins, health conditions, age, religion, or any other characteristics protected by law.Wondering how AI is integrated in our L'Oréal recruitment process? Find practical information and advice in our AI Charter.