Retail & Education Intern, EDPFM & Kilian Paris, APAC

Estee Lauder (Hong Kong) Ltd; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 56,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

Estee Lauder (Hong Kong) Ltd is seeking a passionate Retail & Education Intern to support APAC retail deployment, campaigns, pop-ups, store openings, and training programs. You will enhance in-store execution and product knowledge across markets, collaborating with regional and global teams.

The role focuses on coordinating VM plans, activations, and analytics, while tracking timelines for materials and events to ensure excellent retail performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree; 2nd or 3rd internship or related work experience.
• Interest in fragrances, beauty or luxury.
• Excellent English communication; French/Korean/Japanese a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate VM plans and retail activations across APAC markets.
• Monitor retail initiatives, KPIs, and provide insights to optimize strategies.
• Forecasting: gather regional VM tool requirements and ensure timely delivery.
• Market intelligence: benchmark competitors and inform regional/global teams.

Skills

Communication in English

Multicultural teamwork

Problem-solving

Independence

Organization

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

Retail & Education Intern, EDPFM & Kilian Paris, APAC

is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M

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The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

We are looking for a passionate and organized Retail Intern to support the deployment of retail and educational initiatives across APAC. You will contribute to campaign launches, pop-ups, store openings, and training programs while collaborating with regional and global stakeholders. You will support markets in their day-to-day retail and operational activities, helping to enhance in-store execution, optimize retail operations, and strengthen the product knowledge and selling capabilities of store teams across the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Retail Excellence: Assist in coordinating VM plans and retail activations across APAC markets, ensuring campaign guidelines, best practices, and inspirational content are effectively shared with local teams to support consistent brand execution and retail excellence in stores.
• Retail Performance & Business Analytics: Help in monitoring the performance of retail initiatives, including Pop-ups, VIC activations and in-store events. Identify key success drivers, review KPIs, and provide actionable insights and recommendations to optimize future retail strategies and enhance commercial performance.
• Forecasting & Market Coordination: Gather and consolidate regional requirements for VM tools, collaterals, and samples across APAC markets. Assist with forecasting, track market requests, and follow up on production and delivery timelines to ensure all materials are deployed on time and support seamless execution of retail activations in store.
• Market Intelligence & Competitive Benchmarking: Monitor industry trends, and competitor activities across the luxury beauty and fragrance landscape. Focus on: Pop-ups, VM executions, client events, and retail activations. Produce and distribute regular competitive intelligence reports to inform regional and global teams.

Qualifications

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, 2nd or 3rd internship or other work experience in the past.
• Strong interest in fragrances, beauty or luxury.
• Excellent communication skills in English (both written and spoken), French, Korean, Japanese language would be a plus.
• Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Able to work in a multicultural environment and stakeholder with different team.
• Demonstrate independence, organization, teamwork, and problem-solving skills

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Health & Beauty Retail 101-1,000 employees

We are the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty

through our high-touch offerings. We are a brand-led business and the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout

our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.

We are the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting consumers with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty

through our high-touch offerings. We are a brand-led business and the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout

our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.

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