Intern - Project Manager - Responsible Purchasing and Decarbonization M/F

This internship role at Thales, located in Vélizy-Villacoublay, involves contributing to the deployment of responsible purchasing activities. The intern will support environmental responsibility and decarbonization efforts by engaging suppliers, tracking carbon reduction plans, and assisting with societal responsibility initiatives. The role also includes communication, training, community animation, digital tool deployment, and reporting. This is a 6-month internship for a Bac +4/5 student with a strong interest in sustainability, purchasing, project management, and fluent English.

Must Have

• Contribute to supplier engagement for environmental responsibility/decarbonization (launching, monitoring, analyzing low-carbon questionnaires, SBTi commitments, CDP scores, extra-financial reports).
• Monitor greenhouse gas emission reduction action plans.
• Support activities related to societal responsibility, especially in the Protected Sector.
• Contribute to communication and training activities for buyers.
• Assist in animating the Purchasing community and network of Referents.
• Aid in deploying digital tools (Carbon Management Tool, internal dashboards).
• Assist with external (CSRD, Ecovadis, CDP) and internal (extra-financial KPIs) reporting.
• Perform external monitoring and sectoral benchmarks.
• Bac +4/5 education (engineering, business school, or university).
• Strong interest in sustainability, especially climate and decarbonization.
• Attraction to the purchasing function and good understanding of its missions.
• Rigor, good analytical skills, ability to synthesize and present ideas (written/oral).
• Autonomy and organization.
• Proactive and good interpersonal skills.
• First experience in project management.
• Enjoy teamwork and facilitating working groups.
• Fluent English.

Perks & Benefits

• Technological expertise
• Attention to employee work-life balance
• Inclusive and benevolent environment
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment (Thales Solidarity, CAC 40 ESG index)
• Conventioned internship with gratification based on study level

Let's build a future of trust together

Thales is a global high-tech leader specializing in three business sectors: Defense & Security, Aerospace & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Our technological expertise
• Our attention to employee work-life balance
• An inclusive and benevolent environment
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment (Thales Solidarity, CAC 40 ESG index…)

Your daily life

Join us on the Vélizy campus, which hosts a wide variety of Thales activities, aerospace, defense, civil, etc. West of Paris, this site offers a work environment equipped with the latest technological innovations and provides services to reconcile professional and personal life.

As part of this internship, you will report to the Head of Environmental Purchasing and Social Responsibility and your main missions will be to contribute to the deployment of activities related to Responsible Purchasing.

You will be responsible for:

• Environmental Responsibility / Decarbonization: contribute to supplier engagement in support of the Purchasing community (launching, monitoring and analyzing Low Carbon questionnaires, SBTi commitments, CDP scores and extra-financial reports) and monitoring greenhouse gas emission reduction action plans.
• Social Responsibility: Support activities related notably to the Protected Sector.
• Contribute to communication and training activities for buyers.
• Help animate the Purchasing community and network of Referents.
• Help deploy digital tools (Carbon Management Tool, internal dashboards…).
• Help with external (CSRD, Ecovadis, CDP, etc.) and internal (extra-financial KPIs) reporting.
• Perform external monitoring and sectoral benchmarks.

This internship will be an opportunity for you to work in a team within an innovative company, to apply academic knowledge in an industrial environment, and to develop new skills.

You will interact with Purchasing teams, the Group CSR Directorate, the eco-design teams of the Group's industrial entities, etc.

Your profile:

Are you a Bac +4/5 student (engineering / business school or university) looking for a 6-month internship that will allow you to develop your skills?

Do you have a strong interest in sustainability topics, particularly climate and decarbonization?

Are you attracted to the purchasing function and have a good understanding of its missions?

Are you rigorous, have good analytical skills, and can synthesize your ideas and present them in writing and orally?

Do you appreciate autonomy and are you organized?

Are you proactive and have good interpersonal skills?

Do you have initial experience in project management?

Do you enjoy teamwork and facilitating working groups?

Are you fluent in English?

Do you recognize yourself? Then you have a good chance of thriving in our teams!

All our internships are conventioned and subject to remuneration, the amount of which is determined according to your level of study.

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!