Strategic Projects Intern - Fragrance

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The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) is a global leader in prestige beauty, bringing together iconic brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. At ELC, creativity, innovation, and collaboration come together in an international environment where people are encouraged to learn, grow, and make an impact. Joining ELC means becoming part of a passionate community shaping the future of beauty.

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Key Responsibilities

Support Monthly Reports Analysis

• Assist with the preparation, consolidation, and analysis of monthly retail sales reports.
• Support the monthly analysis of NPD reports, highlighting key trends, insights, and recommended follow-up actions.
• Help track daily door openings and analyze distribution files.
• Assist with year-to-date performance analysis for each brand.

Support Strategic Category and Brand Projects

• Support the tracking of project milestones, deliverables, timelines, and follow-up.
• Assist in consolidating input from different stakeholders to support decision-making and project execution.
• Help identify key dependencies, intersections, and potential risks across ongoing initiatives.

Support Market, Consumer, and Competitor Monitoring

• Help monitor beauty, luxury, retail, consumer, digital, and competitor trends relevant to the brand and category strategy.
• Gather and consolidate market information from internal and external sources.
• Prepare concise summaries of market trends, consumer insights, competitor activities, and relevant local activations.
• Support the identification of best-in-class examples of launches, campaigns, retail initiatives, marketplace activity, and consumer engagement across markets.

Support Brand Leadership and Execution Excellence

• Assist in preparing key materials for Brand VP / GM engagements, including town halls, market visits, leadership presentations, retailer meetings, and internal updates.
• Support the preparation and formatting of strategic presentations, brand documents, recap materials, and project updates.
• Help ensure brand books, toolkits, and key documentation are accurate, up to date, and accessible to regional and affiliate stakeholders.
• Support the review of materials to help ensure consistency, clarity, and alignment with brand guidelines.

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Assist with Cross-Functional Coordination

• Support day-to-day coordination with Regional, Global, and Affiliate teams.
• Help follow up on action points, timelines, and information requests.
• Maintain project trackers, shared documents, planning tools, and follow-up files to ensure information is accurate and up to date.
• Support communication and coordination between internal stakeholders to help ensure smooth execution of priorities.

Support Regional Events and Key Brand Initiatives

• Assist in the planning and coordination of regional brand events, meetings, and key internal moments.
• Support logistical follow-up, agenda preparation, presentation materials, recap documents, and action tracking.
• Help consolidate market feedback and input before and after regional events or key business meetings.
• Contribute to improving visibility of market initiatives and supporting best practice sharing across the region.

Support Business Presentations and Team Deliverables

• Prepare and format PowerPoint presentations, Excel trackers, recap documents, and meeting materials.
• Support the consolidation of market feedback, competitor insights, project updates, and internal business inputs.
• Help ensure that documents and presentations are well-structured, visually clear, and accurate.
• Assist the team with ad hoc projects related to regional marketing, category strategy, brand execution, consumer trends, regional events, or go-to-market follow-up.

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Profile / Qualifications

• Currently completing a Master’s degree or equivalent in Marketing, Business, International Business, Luxury Management, Communications, Project Management, or a related field.
• Must be fluent in English, both written and spoken; French or another language is a plus.
• Strong interest in beauty, luxury, consumer trends, retail, brand strategy, category management, and international markets.
• First internship experience in marketing, business analysis, beauty, luxury, retail, FMCG, project coordination, consulting, or international business is a plus.
• Strong analytical skills and comfortable working with information, data, market insights, and project trackers.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to produce accurate, well-structured documents.
• Good organizational skills, with the ability to manage several tasks, deadlines, and follow-ups.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work with different teams in an international environment.
• Proactive, curious, reliable, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Good command of Excel and PowerPoint.

Key Skills

• Analytical mindset
• Attention to detail
• Organization and follow-up
• Project coordination
• Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Communication and teamwork
• Curiosity and willingness to learn