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Are you looking to develop your career in HR? Do you want to work in a global business with world-leading brands and some of the best talent in the industry? Are you looking for a 1 year industrial placement internship from summer 2025 in London?
If so, we’re looking for HR interns like you! Apply below to share your details and CV with us. If we’re a match, we’ll be in touch to discuss more.
What will you be doing?
You will be part of our UK HR team of 50 people, working across all of Pernod Ricard’s UK businesses including our UK domestic market business ('Pernod Ricard UK'), our global scotch business ('Chivas Brothers'), our travel retail business ('Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail') our global gin business (‘The Absolut Group’, Gin Business Unit), and our global functions based in the UK, notably Technology.
You could be working on any the following topics:
- HR Business Partnering – working with the HR team to provide people support to line managers to ensure a high-performing, engaged workforce aligned to our overall company strategy.
- Talent Acquisition – including supporting our Early Careers programmes and Employer Brand campaigns.
- Compensation and Benefits - assisting with employee benefits management such as queries related to benefits enrolment, troubleshooting employee benefits, and conducting benefits analyses.
- Learning & Development - contributing to the delivery of key initiatives such as our company-wide induction programme.
Who are you? We’re looking for people who are:
- Completing a degree in any discipline from any UK university and with the ability to complete a year in industry from the summer of 2025.
- We also welcome applications from recent graduates who are open to undertaking a year-long placement.
- Passionate about HR and people
- Able to show an understnading of how complex, matrixed organisations work.
- Strong communicators, able to position complex messages in a concise and compelling style
- Able to show high mental agility (intellectual curiosity, embracing complexity, managing multiple priorities) and high people agility (building relationships, working well with others, emotional intelligence)
- Able to demonstrate a track record of excellence or of achieving results
What do we offer?
- A global organisation with world-leading brands – we are the world #1 in premium spirits with over 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries.
- Fantastic opportunities to grow your career, in the UK and internationally – 50% of our UK positions are hired from within.
- A genuinely unique culture – we call it conviviality!
- Great benefits including private healthcare, 28 days’ holiday, free Wellbeing resources and a generous allowance in our staff shop!
- A socially-driven business, serious about Sustainability & Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion and responsible drinking.
Why join us? Check out these links to see some of the great work we’re doing, in HR and beyond
- Our recognition as a leading employer by Forbes and one of the World’s Best Companies by Time magazine
- Our Sustainability and Responsibility commitments
- Our global brands and their leading campaigns such as Absolut, (here and here), Ballantines’ support of True Music in our partnership with Boiler Room, Jameson x EFL (here and here) and Malibu’sDon’t Drink and Dive campaignwith Tom Daley!
- Our strong FY24 results
Application process
- Stage 1: Online application and CV submission
- Stage 2: Blended assessment - includes a video interview
- Stage 3: Assessment centre
We operate a hybrid working policy and our experience has found that our interns get the most out of their time with us if they are spending minimum 3, ideally 4 days per week in the office. We therefore ask that all our interns agree to spend 3-4 days per week in the office.
At Pernod Ricard, we are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process—please let us know if you require any adjustments to support you through your application.
