Consumer Insights & Trends Project Assistant

Location: Paris, France; six-month placement in central Paris offices starting January 2027. Hybrid flexible working model.

Company

Global beauty company with brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, skincare, and body care, selling products in more than 150 countries.

What you will do

• Support cross-functional projects across Marketing, Trade, Media, and R&D by developing consumer stories from humanities-based insights and quantitative data.
• Assist with global trends deployment across fragrance, makeup, and skincare.
• Lead a project that educates and engages a company-wide audience on a trending topic.
• Support consumer research studies by helping develop questionnaires and discussion guides, preparing test materials, and contributing to syntheses and recommendations.
• Build and maintain databases and KPI reporting systems.

Requirements

• Strong ability to summarize information, extract key insights, and build clear storytelling.
• Basic knowledge of statistics and confidence working with numbers.
• Ability to lead projects, take initiative, and defend recommendations.
• Detail-oriented, rigorous, proactive, and comfortable in a fast-paced international environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Excel.
• English is the company language; French is a bonus but not required.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, open-minded, international working environment.
• Hybrid flexible working model supporting work-life balance.
• Meal vouchers.
• 50% transportation refund.
• Access to preferential rates on company products.