Sustainability Intern London, England
Job description
Global Sustainability Intern, Corporate Affairs
Location: London
ABOUT COTY
Founded in Paris in 1904, Coty is one of the world’s largest beauty companies with a portfolio of iconic brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care. Coty serves consumers around the world, selling prestige and mass market products in more than 130 countries and territories. Coty and our brands empower people to express themselves freely, creating their own visions of beauty; and we are committed to making a positive impact on the planet. Learn more at coty.com.
MISSION
Coty’s CEO has put sustainability in the center of the company strategy as one of the six strategic pillars, with the ambition to become an industry leader in sustainability.
As a Global Sustainability Intern, you will be part of our Global Sustainability team within Coty’s Corporate Affairs function. The team has a global scope and works across the three pillars of Coty’s Beauty That Lasts sustainability strategy – Beauty of our Product, our Planet, and our People. The team partners with the different functional teams responsible for the delivery of the strategy. The Sustainability team leads Coty’s sustainability reporting and audit process, and is responsible for sustainability communication and engagement with different internal and external stakeholders.
As the Global Sustainability Intern, you will be responsible for providing communications and reporting support. You will contribute to key projects that support the delivery of our sustainability strategy – responsible sourcing, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion campaigns and Greenhouse Gas and environmental reporting. Your core focus during the six-months will be delivery of Coty’s sustainability report, but there will be many opportunities to support on other projects such as sustainability campaign, benchmarking, developing internal roadmaps and processes for data collection.
THE ROLE
Sustainability Report & Audit Contribute to delivery of Coty’s FY23 Sustainability Report, including assisting with data collection and audit verification, write-ups and design, collating stories, and project management. Support in development of communications and stakeholder engagement plan for launch. Support in the review of the reporting process in particular for environment indicators and GHGs.
Campaigns Work with the Corporate Affairs team and wider business functions to deliver mini-sustainability campaigns internally and externally, including education, and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives. Ad hoc copywriting and content creation.
Projects & Support Manage sustainability calendar and ensure synchronization with wider Corporate Affairs calendar. Update and collect sustainability success stories. Support our ESG ratings agency program with research, benchmarking and data collection. Ad hoc support across a range of internal initiatives where sustainability expertise is required.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
Knowledge and Experience: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in sustainability-related discipline desired (environmental, social, or business-related). Previous work experience within a business – multi-national preferred but not essential. Solid understanding of (and passion for!) sustainability, and literate in the key concepts – reporting, DE&I, responsible sourcing and GHG reporting.
Required skills: Strategic and analytical thinker Attention to detail Excellent communicator with strong writing and English language skills Second language at a business level is a plus (French, German, Dutch, Spanish)
CONCLUDING
You’ll work in a passionate, multi-discipline team and have the opportunity to learn while putting your sustainability expertise into practice within a business context. Our people make us who we are, so we hope you will also have some fun along the way! We are a geographically diverse team united by the value of fearless kindness. We welcome new ideas, innovate thinking, and people with a passion to create Beauty That Lasts. If you’re the kind of person who wants to make and impact and help create simply better solutions for a better world, we’d love to hear from you.
