Estée Lauder Strategic Projects Intern – Skincare

About Estée Lauder

Estée Lauder is a global prestige beauty house with a legacy of innovation, elegance, and entrepreneurial spirit dating back to 1946. As an employer, the company offers the opportunity to contribute to a portfolio of admired luxury and beauty brands while upholding high standards of creativity, consumer insight, and excellence. It cultivates a dynamic, inclusive workplace where talent is encouraged to lead with imagination, collaborate across cultures, and grow through learning and mobility. Guided by its heritage and a forward-looking vision, Estée Lauder appeals to professionals seeking meaningful careers in a refined, international, and purpose-driven environment.

Role & Responsibilities

• 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 input, 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Currently completing a Master’s degree or equivalent in Marketing, Business, International Business, Luxury Management, Communications, Project Management or a related field.
• Fluent 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.

Skills

Education

Currently completing a Master’s degree or equivalent in Marketing, Business, International Business, Luxury Management, Communications, Project Management or a related field.

Culture

Estée Lauder fosters a high-performance, collaborative culture rooted in prestige beauty, innovation, and a deep understanding of consumers around the world. As an employer, the company values creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, inclusion, and continuous development, offering employees the opportunity to contribute to iconic brands while growing in a dynamic global environment.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.