Global Sales Intern: Shopper Marketing Focus
Job Description
The internship starts from February and is for a period of 5-6 months.
About the role
The Global Sales Strategy & Category Development team plays a crucial role in establishing win-win category partnerships with strategic retailers, by closely collaborating with global and local sales teams. The team represents the customer and shopper interest throughout the entire innovation process: from early feeding retailer benefits and category growth elements into the project, to the excellent execution towards the customer and shopper.
The team defines the in-store strategy for the category and identifies the key business drivers from perfect shopper understanding. They translate insights into action, by defining execution standards and developing playbooks to guide countries. It’s about defining Go-to-Market strategy for key innovations, defining the picture of success and translating it into sales fundamentals. The team works closely with countries to track progress and overcome potential barriers. They build external selling stories and create the customer engagement package, as well as create global shopper marketing guidelines and assets for transcreation in countries.
The team operates as key business partner to global sales & marketing teams, as well as other functions at the global headquarters, with stakeholders across all levels of the organization, up to the Executive Committee.
Responsibilities:
- As a Global Shopper Marketing intern you will be working in an international environment and support the Sales Strategy & Category Development team.
- You will be in charge of analysing data across countries, customers, and segments and compiling best practices across countries.
- You will participate in creating trade stories and POS material playbooks for key innovations and in compiling shopper insights across countries and identifying key learnings.
- Part of the role is also to support in preparing multi-country workshops, trainings, and meetings. This internship is an ideal opportunity to acquire experience at a major international company.
Qualifications
If you have the courage and confidence to venture into new cultures & territories, and you're brimming with an entrepreneurial spirit and a drive to succeed, you’ll fit right in at JDE. We roll up our sleeves, pitch in, and get our hands dirty to break new ground. Committed to playing at our best, we think bigger and move faster, always rising to the challenge that matters most and celebrating the wins that count. And all this in an open, friendly environment where you can approach anyone and grow any way you like.
To be successful in this role you will need to:
- Be student enrolled in BSc or MSc program in Business Administration, Business Economics or equivalent at a University looking for an internship or project (graduation projects can be discussed)
- Be enthusiastic and pro-active
- Pragmatic
- Have Excel and PowerPoint skills
- Be fluent in English (both written and spoken)
- Be driven and result-oriented: you want to make things happen
Important: To be considered as a candidate for this internship,
- EU/EEA students: you need to be enrolled at a University for the whole duration of the internship and this needs to be a mandatory part of your study curriculum. In case of voluntarily internship purpose, a tri-parties agreement may be requested to be signed by you and your university.
- Non-EU/EEA students: you need to be enrolled at a Dutch University and your university needs to sign the Nuffic Agreement. The internship needs to be a compulsory part of your studies (eg, receive ECTS in turn).
This position is an intern role under JDE’s International Headquarter, only applications in English will be considered! Please apply only if you can meet the aforementioned requirements.
Additional Information
Your application at JDE
After receiving your application we will do our utmost to give you quick feedback. Part of the recruitment procedure at JDE will be an online assessment, followed by interviews.
The future of work is hybrid, with both office and home playing an important role. At JDE, we value meeting colleagues in the office to unleash the possibilities of coffee and tea together and we enjoy our focus time when working from home. Join us and you will experience both. Because it’s amazing what happens over a cup of coffee!
Internship Allowance
- Based on a fulltime 40 hour workweek, the monthly internship allowance is € 450,- for a HBO student or € 500,- for a WO student, additionally, you will get paid leave on the basis of 1 day per month.
- Monthly Commuting allowance:
- In principle, you will be using your student public transportation card (student OV-chipcard /studentenreisproduct) for daily commuting.
- If you are not eligible for the student OV-chipcard, JDE offers a commuting allowance. Compensation for commuting expenses, starting from a minimum distance of 5 kilometers one way, up to a maximum of:
- 35 kilometers à € 19ct per km (according to the temporary arrangement) when travelling by own transportation;
- 45 kilometers (max. € 294.50 based on public transport fees) per month for travel by public transportation.
- Should you relocate to the city of your based office (Amsterdam or Utrecht), you will receive a monthly relocation compensation of up to a maximum of € 175. In this case, the commuting allowance will be not applicable. Please do keep in mind that we do not offer relocation and/or accommodation benefits for students coming from abroad.
JDE is a subsidiary JDE Peet’s, the world's leading pure-play coffee and tea company, headquartered in The Netherlands. For more than 265 years, JDE has been inspired by the belief that it’s amazing what can happen over a cup of coffee. Today, JDE unleashes the possibilities of coffee and tea in more than 100 countries, through a portfolio of over 50 brands including L’OR, Jacobs, Senseo, Tassimo, Douwe Egberts, OldTown, Super, Pickwick and Moccona.
What’s it like to work at JDE?
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