Internships at
P&G
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Why an Internship with P&G?
What are the internship
opportunities at P&G?
How to apply?
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Why an internship with P&G?
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What is P&G anyways?
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P&G In a Glance
P&G at a glance
th billions
•Sales
of $- 170
68.2
• Founded
in 1837
anniversary
• Sales•Nearly
of $ 68.2300
billion
brands in more
• Nearly
300 160
brands
in more than 160
than
countries
countries
•22 brands
globalwith
brands
sales
• 22 global
saleswith
of over
$1
billionof over $ 1 billion
• Worldwide
workforce
135,000
•Workforce
ofof140.000
• 140 plants and 25 R&D centers
•3 billions people touched
globally
everyday
P&G
products
• Spend
nearly $ 2by
billion
a year
on
R&D
•Spends more than $5 million
a day on R&D
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The Importance of Western Europe
About 25 % of P&G sales
Geneva Business Centre (GBC) – Geneva,
Switzerland
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And now why an internship at P&G?
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Do you want …
..another internship without long
term perspective and any useful
feedback on your performance?
X
..mainly doing preliminary work for X
the rest of the team?
..working in an environment where
X
the intern’s work in not truly
valued?
..a P&G internship with regular
feedback and the opportunity of
having your career sorted before
graduating?
..taking over responsibility for your
own projects from day 1 – with an
intern compensation that reflects your
importance for the P&G business?
..being a full member of your team
while working within an openminded&international P&G culture?
The decision is up to you!
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What we offer you:
• Responsibility for real projects – work
that P&G managers typically do
• Help you Grow and Learn from Day 1
in a real multifunctional environment
• Be coached by experienced P&G
managers
• Competitive salary
• Have fun and meet diverse people
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What we offer you:
•Get to know different faces of
business, P&G brands & products
• In depth processing of your application
with deciding along the same entry
criteria as for new-hire positions
• A great enhancement to your CV!
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Your Internship & your future
• Successful internships usually
lead to Job Offers
• It will be the best informed
career choice you could
make…an opportunity to „try
the Company and see if it fits“
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Flexible Future
• Finish your studies with your
job sorted & focus on your
degree without the distraction
of job-hunting
• Deferred entry: with major
graduate employers like P&G,
you may be able to defer your
start by 6-12 months post
graduation
• A great option if your planning
travel after University
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Your internship in 3 Steps!
Some More details
 Apply online before November 12th
Please mention “HEC Lausanne 2007” in your application
Put as title of your CV “HEC Lausanne 2007”
Complete online questionnaire
This takes time, but it is a pre-requisite!
 if positive, you will be invited to the PST in HEC Lausanne
on November 14th
Upon successful completion of the PST, HR will schedule some time for the
interviews in P&G Geneva end of November
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What are the internship
opportunities at P&G?
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Structure
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Finance
Drive shareholder value and act as “CFO” of your business
 Not a Data cruncher but a “well rounded” Business leader
Finance & Accounting mission:
To provide leadership to business decision-making, and sound, innovative
planning to maximize long-term profits, cash flow and total return to shareholders
Finance @ P&G
• Key business leader as part of multi-functional team
• “Finance is everywhere”
• Systematic development to a “well rounded” finance manager
Very broad range of opportunities
Category Financial Analysis – Product Supply Finance – Customer Logistics &
Financial Services – CBD Finance – Profit Forecast – Others: Treasury, Tax, M&A, R&D
Finance...
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Finance internships
Peter van der Wal: Fabric Care F&A
• Project: and the winner is..?
• Culture @ P&G
Thomas Nehfischer: Licensing & Acquisition
• Project: Competitive Analysis
• Training @ P&G
• P&G vs JP Morgan and McKinsey?
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Marketing
“WE BUILD BRANDS“
We build individuals that BUILD BRANDS
Mission: Develop and manage a brand in terms of
volume, share and profit.
Focus: Understand everything about the consumer
and the communication with the consumer
Typically involved in: Project management, brand
strategy, advertising (TV copy development), PR, direct
marketing, packaging creation etc.
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Marketing internships
“I DO STRATEGICAL MARKETING”
-> Marketing is not (only) advertising.
“I can see the marketing director from my desk”
-> Flat structure with easy going culture and
atmosphere
“I can take part in trainings almost two times a
week”
-> you are part of the team!
“I’m Fire Fighting on one of my project”
-> It’s about business results from day 1.
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CMK – Consumer & Market Knowledge
CMK is the voice of the world’s consumers
and shoppers, articulating their needs into
our brands and products.
• We lead the identification of innovation opportunities and
robust predictions of business outcomes.
• We inspire teams to maximize new and established brand
initiatives by acting on the integrated knowledge of:
− Consumer and shopper decision processes,
− Market and retailer dynamics,
− External influences and trends and,
− Key drivers of business growth.
• We bring the consumer perspective on strategic market
choices, innovation ideas, advertising, pricing, packaging,
consumer segmentations,.. and much more!
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CMK internships
Responsibility for a current project, being an integral part of a
brand's business team.
Projects
• Identify and reach prime prospect groups thanks to segmentation & receptivity
studies
•Define & further develop equity/brand positioning based on equity in-market
tracking
Projects
• Full ownership from day one
• The future of home-care is based on this project (high visibility)
• Team member
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Information & Decision
Solutions (IDS)
We combine information and business knowledge
to deliver innovative solutions that change the
way P&G does business.
Information
Our unique asset
Decision
What we enable
Solutions
What we deliver
WHAT WE DO
 Building 1:1 Connections Internally and externally
 Virtualize & model key business processes
 Enable real-time decision making
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IDS internships
My personal experience
• Proactively search for improved ways to run business processes and/or
applications;
• Manage your own time effectively and eventually coordinate others and/or
contractors;
• Build collaborative relationships with the multifunctional team you need to
interact with;
• Proactively communicate the status of the project, activities and help to
remove roadblocks;
• Build your own capability through the job experience, coaching/training
for skills and business/technologies/applications knowledge building.
To sum up:
 leading projects
 managing the schedule and interaction
 full accountability for project success and contribution.
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Human Resources
We create and sustain business growth and
competitive advantage with people,
organizations, systems & culture
• Build and increase our people’s capabilities
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‘Build from within’ culture
• Build strategic business partnership;
• Lead organizational change;
• Are the guardians of our values
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HR internships
• In a Talent Supply team:
• competitive analysis,
• creation of a new training to become interviewers,
• development of new tools to advertise our product expertise on
campuses.
• In a Business Unit/category of products:
• compensation & benefits analysis,
• renewal/creation of job descriptions,
• implementation of new HR system,
• development of onboarding brochure for new employees
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How to apply for an
Internship with P&G?
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Structure
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How to get an internship?
• In the middle/end part of your studies,
applications from all
degrees/backgrounds welcome
• All year long with a duration of 2-6
months (we are flexible to your needs)
• All P&G functions and Western
European countries
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How to get an internship?
• For more information/your application:
www.pgcareers.com/internships
• Please note: there are numerous
internships available under general
postings per business function
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HEC Lausanne
Step 1
Check vacancies
and apply on
www.pgcareers.com
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Fill-in online
questionnaire
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1. Step: How to apply online?
• Go to www.pgcareers.com/internships
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2.Step: The online assessment
• Multiple choice questions:
− Education
− Projects you lead
− Extra-curriculum activities
• If positive, HR screening of your CV
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3. Step Problem Solving Test
- 65 minutes for 50 questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Content: text comprehension, math problem
solving, graph analysis
 Example test available online
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4. Step: Interviews
-3 interviews with P&G employees from the function you applied
to
-Each interview takes one hour
-Objective of Interview: to find out about past experiences
-Give complete & detailed answers
-Selection criterias: Success Drivers (Competencies we look for in
our employees.
-Interviews feedback within 2 days
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What’s important when applying?
• The 3 powers P&G is looking for:
• Power of People
• Power of Mind
• Power of Agility
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Internships Fast-Track process
Step 1
Check vacancies
and apply on
www.pgcareers.com
Step 2
Fill-in online
questionnaire
Step 3
Step 4
Problem solving
Test on
November 14th
Interviews
By end November
• You need to submit your application on the
website before the Problem Solving Test
(PST)  apply before November 12th
• The PST will be done on Campus
(Auditorium 273) on November 14th, at 5pm
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How does our Fast-Track work?
• Apply online before November 12th
− Please mention ‘HEC Lausanne 2007’ in your
application
• Put as title of your CV “HEC Lausanne 2007”
− complete online questionnaire
• if positive, you will be invited to the PST in Lausanne
on November 14th
• Upon successful completion of the PST, HR will
schedule some time for the interviews in P&G Geneva
end of November
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QUESTIONS?
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