Trade Marketing Intern, Travel Retail Americas

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)