Internship Title: Trade Marketing Intern, Travel Retail Americas
Company: Parfums Christian Dior
Location: Internship based in Miami, FL
Full-time internship: 40 hours a week.
PURPOSE OF THE INTERNSHIP:
The Trade Marketing Intern will give support to the Trade Marketing Project Manager to deliver more profitable, efficient, and tailor-made activations while increasing visibility and image of the brand all over Travel Retail Americas.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Trade
- Coordinate the dispatch of animation material boards from headquarters to suppliers, while also organizing the collection of locally sourced material boards from suppliers for Trade Marketing Project Manager's approval.
- Order videos for animations per project manager direction.
- Assist the trade marketing manager in locating suitable specialty suppliers for animations, including paper, flowers, and ribbon.
- Aid the Trade Marketing Manager with uploading files, including high-resolution visuals, to the trade marketing hub, enabling freelancers and suppliers to obtain the required materials for design and production purposes.
- Assist the project manager in the collection of installation photos from suppliers across the region and follow up on corrections needed.
- Contact retail managers to collect photos of animations installed with product, so the project manager can confirm the accurate implementation of merchandising and retail initiatives.
Reports and Presentations
- Support the Trade Marketing Manager in developing presentations and reports for central, retailers, and commercial teams. This includes 360 Customer Presentations, Animation Render Approval Forms, competition reports, animation post-mortems, Go-to-Market strategies, and other relevant documents.
- Support in the preparation of bi-weekly Newsletter slides.
- Help create instructional videos or presentations for field as needed.
Invoicing
- Process all production and shipping invoices and align them the Trade Marketing budgets
- Create new vendors in SAP.
- Communicate with suppliers regarding any outstanding invoices after the installation is complete.
- Follow the proper process with finance to ensure that invoices are paid.
- Work with central finance on issue resolution when there are issues with supplier/ invoices
Warehouse/ Logistics
- Coordinate shipment of materials ( Promoter Uniforms/ POSM/ Semi local production/ Support Tools)
- Assist in cleanout of trade inventory
Report to the Regional Trade Marketing Project Manager, Travel Retail Americas
PRINCIPAL SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES REQUIRED:
- Working towards design, business, or Marketing degree
- Experience in Photoshop or other equivalent design software is a strong plus
- Proactive, with the capacity to analyze and react quickly
- Excellent attention to detail
- Hard worker, rigorous, and strong organizational skills
- Strong product knowledge and sensibility to the luxury and beauty universes
- Good communicator – both verbal & written
- Very good use of office tools (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong operational skills
- Speaks English fluently and Spanish (Portuguese and French can be a plus)
