PR & Communications Industrial Placement 2026

Based: White City, London

Duration: 1 Year

Start Dates: Monday 29th June 2026

Annual Salary: £25,210 per annum

Overview

At L'Oréal, press coverage, PR events, and working with influencers are at the heart of everything we do. Representing our 35 international brands, each with its own voice, is a challenge that demands a lot of creativity and tenacity. Whether it’s a PR launch, help with organizing an influencer trip, or coming up with ideas for a creative PR mailout, you’ll be creating the human face of the L'Oréal brand. It goes without saying that you should be a strong team player with a lively personality – this is a job as much about fun as hard work. Working in the press office, you will help us portray our brands in the best way possible to the press and influencers. This may include liaising day‑to‑day on specific products, offers to readers, or managing large‑scale events. As an intern, your principal accountability would be to provide support to the press office in ensuring the smooth running of day‑to‑day business. You would be responsible for your own live projects within the team, with exposure to senior management.

Day-to-Day You Will

• Manage product mail‑outs, coming up with creative ideas for send‑outs to encourage social sharing and press coverage.
• Manage media lists.
• Help with supporting PR and influencer events, from PR launches to trips.
• Work with external PR agencies on a day‑to‑day basis.
• Handle press calls & liaise with journalists.
• Monitor influencers, newspapers, and magazines for coverage and scan for distribution, to share PR team wins with wider teams.
• Help the team with social media; this could be captions, taking images for social channels, and scheduling.
• Help the team with sourcing influencers for paid partnerships, creating content briefs, and speaking to influencer agents.
• Order product, stationary orders, post, couriers & press cuttings.
• Work alongside the media team with paid media campaigns.

What does success look like?

• Operational Excellence: Mastering your responsibilities and ensuring the smooth operation of the press office.
• Influencer & Media Engagement: Proactively contributing to engaging content and managing relationships with journalists and influencers effectively.
• Creative Input: Generating innovative ideas for mail-outs and social media content that drives brand visibility.

To Be Successful, You Will Need To Have

• Excellent written and verbal skills.
• Understanding of the beauty business.
• Understanding of communications tools.
• Capacity to understand the bigger business picture.
• A technical mind but keen to work within the heart of a business.
• Numerate and PC literate: in particular with strong Excel skills.
• Strong networking skills and the ability to interact with all areas of the business.
• A good knowledge of the beauty influencer landscape.
• A creative eye for social media content creation.

Eligibility

You must be in your second year at University on a course which enables you to take an Industrial Placement Year (unfortunately, if you are graduated, you are not eligible).

Diversity & Inclusion

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are currently under‑represented in our organisation. We are signatories of the Race at Work Charter led by Business in the Community and are committed to improving employment opportunities for people of colour across the UK. We also welcome applications from LGB, Trans and non‑binary candidates.

To Apply

Once you click apply, you’ll be asked some questions to check your eligibility for this role. These will include questions about your current situation, whether you’re happy with the salary, location, etc. Our Assessment Centres this year will mostly be in person, running from when applications open until the roles are filled. These Assessment Centres are specific to function, so please be patient if you don’t get invited straight away—it might just be because your function’s Assessment Centre date is later in the recruitment period!

Please note If you apply for more than one role, you’ll be put forward for the one we deem most suitable for you. If you have a strong preference, please only apply to that one role to ensure you’re considered for the correct role.