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Category Management Internship

Posted 23 Mar 2024
Work experience
0 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision expert, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain and with prescription lenses. These products are offered through leading optical retail banners which operate more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. GrandVision serves its customers in over 7,000 stores and with more than 37,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Some key figures:

  • 7,000+ stores in more than 40 countries
  • 30 retail banners
  • over 800,000 store visitors per day
  • ~17 million prescription glasses sold
  • Revenue 2018: EUR 3,7 billion
  • EBITDA 2018: EUR 576 million
  • Over 37,000 employees

Our vision is to provide high quality and affordable eye care to more and more people around the world. By doing so, GrandVision aspires to help them realize their full potential in life.

Developing Careers & Potential

Within all GrandVision companies we recruit for a career, not just a job. We are passionate about customer satisfaction and develop our people to look for growth potential within the job and within the company. Our preference is to always promote internally where possible. So, wherever people start, there’s always somewhere else to go. We strive for continuous improvement and our new recruits help us to further raise the future potential of our company. Our whole business is full of people who have gone on to achieve a successful career through experiencing a variety of different roles in different locations and area of our business. We continually support and develop our people who have the desire, ambition and potential to grow.

With customers, stores and employees located in over 40 countries, GrandVision shows diversity to be at the core of its success. Grandvision is a global company proud and committed to be an equal opportunity employer.

Category Management Internship, Schiphol, Amsterdam Area

Solaris was created in France in 1994 ago with the aim to offer its customers the “Ultimate Sunglass Selection” on premium locations in Europe and to provide a unique, technical and fashionable Customer Experience. The own stores network expended in France and southern Europe to reach more than 1500 points of sales across 23 countries.

Solaris is now the global category manager for sunglasses within GrandVision group. It is rapidly expanding its sun retail concept in more than 20 countries and is one of the growth engines of GrandVision. The objective is to drive GrandVision’s position in the global sunglass market under the Solaris brand. Also outside of GrandVision, Solaris is targeting further expansion.

GrandVision is building its sunglass business globally under its Solaris global retail brand, off- and online (solarissunglass. com). Current turnover is about €300mn, delivered through 4 formats. Whilst about 130 standalone stores are operated, most of the sales come from shop-in-shops (or, in smaller stores, through sunglass displays) in GrandVision’s existing over 5.800 stores.

The ambition of Solaris is to have full global coverage, leveraging a smoothly operated “hard franchise model”, with the GrandVision Solaris organisation as the “franchisor” and the local countries/existing stores as “franchisees”. In addition to driving global expansion of Solaris through a tight franchise model, GrandVision also wants to look into other business development opportunities for the Solaris brand, e.g. airport retail, department stores, regional Master Franchise. Profitability should grow further at the same time.

Reports to

3 Global Category managers

Main purpose of the role

Within the Sun (Solaris) assortment team, you will support the 3 category managers in their daily missions.

Missions:

Product & trends management

  • Business insight: Support Category managers in running sell-out/article performance analysis at a global level in order to support strategy definition
  • Collect local trends and products needs from countries (23 countries, 35 banners) to create detailed product brief for both EB and NEB (document requirements for a new product)
  • Run some benchmarks on Market opportunities, analyse available market surveys
  • New brand opportunity evaluation with trends team
  • Brand Launchpack writing on catman demand
  • Calendar alignment: Collect main key delivery milestones dates from Countries (main NEB launches/campaigns, EB ranges)
  • Support the development of global trends reports: benchmark, competition, new brands, new ambassador, brands update, PR…
  • Support the Product & Mkg specific campaigns implementation & impact measurement

Global-Local Category management community animation Product assortment commitee

  • Support the Strategic Product assortment committee ppt preparation with category management team, follow up of documentation needed from suppliers & Opcos every 3 months
  • Be the owner of the presentation with all stakeholders for the global-local category management calls every 2 weeks

Showroom

  • Management and continuous optimization of the Global Sun Product showroom in Schiphol (Sample orders, stock management and planograms)

Required qualifications/level of education

  • Bachelor degree Business / marketing (business school)

Core competencies/ Personal attributes

  • Highly adaptable to new environments; with a natural ability to embrace learning and develop through experience
  • High level of energy and ambition to realise a positive impact
  • Positive, customer first, can do attitude
  • Autonomous, proactive, and dynamic

Key skills, knowledge, and experiences

  • Strong knowledge of English (written & spoken)
  • International profile
  • Excellent skills with Excel (+ MS office, PowerPoint, Word)
  • Internship experience in a product management/retail environment will be appreciated / 3 months minimum
  • Willing to travel during the Selection days 3 times a year during (3 weeks +/-)

GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision experts, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain…


GrandVision is a global leader in optical retailing and delivers high quality and affordable eye care to more and more customers around the world. The high quality eye care offered by GrandVision includes a wide range of services provided by its vision experts, prescription glasses including frames and lenses, contact lenses and contact lens care products, and sunglasses both plain and with prescription lenses. These products are offered through leading optical retail banners such as Pearle Opticiens and EyeWish in the Netherlands, Apollo-Optik in Germany, and Vision Express in the UK, which operate in more than 40 countries across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Asia. GrandVision serves its customers in over 6,500 stores and with more than 31,000 employees which are proving every day that in EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE. For more information, please visit: grandvision.com.

Some key figures :

6,516 stores in over 40 countries
29 retail banners
over 600,000 store visitors per day
15 million prescription spectacles sold
2 million social media followers
Revenue 2016: EUR 3,316 million (growth > 3.5% compared to 2015)
Adjusted EBITDA 2016: EUR 537 million (+5.0% compared to 2015)
Over 31,000 employees

Find our annual report here: annualreport.grandvision.com

Our vision is to provide high quality and affordable eye care to more and more people around the world. By doing so, GrandVision aspires to help them realize their full potential in life. In EYE CARE, WE CARE MORE.

Our mission is committed to growth and achieving a market leading position in each country it operates in, and thereby create value for all its stakeholders and foremost, its customers.

Our strategy is to further expand our global presence and further develop, strengthen and deploy our global capabilities, expanding in current markets, driving further comparable growth and optimizing the existing store network.

Retail
Schiphol
31,000 employees