Strategic Projects Intern - Skincare

Reports to the Strategic Project Senior Manager

Key Responsibilities

Support Strategic Category and Brand Projects

• Track project milestones, deliverables, timelines, action points, dependencies, and potential risks.
• Maintain accurate project trackers, planning tools, shared documents, and follow-up files.
• Consolidate stakeholder inputs, project updates, and business information to support decision-making and execution.
• Contribute to ad hoc projects related to regional marketing, category strategy, brand execution, consumer trends, regional events, and go-to-market follow-up.

Support Market, Consumer, and Competitor Monitoring

• Monitor beauty, luxury, retail, consumer, digital, and competitor trends relevant to brand and category strategy.
• Gather and consolidate market intelligence from internal and external sources, including market feedback and local activations.
• Prepare concise insight summaries and identify best-in-class launches, campaigns, retail initiatives, marketplace activity, and consumer engagement across markets.

Support Leadership Communications and Brand Excellence

• Prepare and format strategic presentations, brand documents, project updates, recaps, and meeting materials for Brand VP / GM engagements, town halls, market visits, retailer meetings, and internal updates.
• Ensure materials are accurate, well structured, visually clear, and aligned with brand guidelines.
• Keep brand books, toolkits, and key documentation current and accessible to regional and affiliate stakeholders.

Assist with Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate day-to-day activities with Regional, Global, Affiliate, and other cross-functional teams.
• Follow up on action points, timelines, information requests, and competing priorities to support smooth execution.
• Facilitate clear communication and information sharing across stakeholders.

Support Regional Events and Key Brand Initiatives

• Assist with planning and coordinating regional brand events, meetings, and key internal initiatives.
• Support logistical follow-up, agendas, presentations, recap documents, and action tracking.
• Consolidate market input before and after key events, improve visibility of local initiatives, and facilitate best-practice sharing across the region.

Profile / Qualifications

• Currently completing a Master’s degree or equivalent in Marketing, Business, International Business, Luxury Management, Communications, Project Management, or a related field.
• Fluent in written and spoken English; French or another language is a plus.
• Strong interest in beauty, luxury, consumer trends, retail, brand strategy, category management, and international markets.
• Previous internship experience in marketing, business analysis, beauty, luxury, retail, FMCG, project coordination, consulting, or international business is a plus.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills, with confidence working with data, market insights, project trackers, and business information.
• Excellent attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, well-structured documents and presentations.
• Strong organizational, communication, and teamwork skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across stakeholders in an international environment.
• Proactive, curious, reliable, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
• Good command of Excel and PowerPoint.