Distributor Sales Intern

eCommerce Intern – SALES EUROPEAN DISTRIBUTOR MARKETS

(Starting in September 2024)

ABOUT COTY

We’re Coty, one of the world’s largest beauty companies with an iconic portfolio of brands across fragrance, color cosmetics, and skin and body care. Coty is the global leader in fragrance and number three in color cosmetics. Coty’s products are sold in over 150 countries around the world. Coty and its brands are committed to a range of social causes as well as seeking to minimize its impact on the environment.

ABOUT THE DEPARTMENT

In the Sales Team for our European Distributor Markets (EDM), we are responsible for our Prestige and Consumer Beauty business in > 40 countries in the EMEA region. Furthermore, we manage some of the biggest and fastest growing e-com retailers in Europe as well as some newcomers in the Beauty category. We are a dynamic and international team of highly motivated salespeople and together with our colleagues from the broader EDM organization we are shaping the future of our brands in markets with > 300 M consumers. We do this in close collaboration with our distributor and retail partners, and we cover a wide range of different business models.

THE ROLE

Coty is seeking a highly motivated Distributor Sales intern to join Coty`s Europe Distributor Markets Sales team, located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. As intern, you will be contributing and supporting our North region which includes Scandinavia and Iceland. In this role, you will be part of an experienced team of Sales Managers to develop the business in line with the agreed strategies and targets. You will support the Sales Manager and Cluster Leader on our major accounts, assist in day-to-day account management, ensure a perfect execution and help building a strong collaboration with the customer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the team with day-to-day account management tasks
• Analyze the retail sales performance of our top retailers across Scandinavia
• Monitoring – campaigns, competition & content for all customers, monthly highlights
• Ongoing improvement of content and e-store fundamentals with focus on multichannel approach maximizing our potential to grow thanks to a close collaboration with marketing teams
• Accelerate our ecommerce channels especially on pure players
• Retail Media - Competition monitoring and building successful cases and sharing learnings
• Trade plans – optimizing competitive promotional planning

In this full-time internship, you will report into the Sales Manager Scandinavia & Iceland who is located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

• Passion for sales performance
• HBO/WO Student (Bachelor/Master), for this internship it is important you remain enrolled with your university during the whole internship
• HBO/WO Student (Bachelor/Master) in Business Administration or Marketing a plus
• Proactive and hands-on
• Analytical thinking and smart selling
• Passion for analytical work
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills especially Excel
• Does not shy away from responsibilities and is happy to provide added value
• Flexible and loves challenges
• Good communication skills and likes to work in a team
• Fluent in English is mandatory
• A first experience in sales or the beauty industry is a plus

WHAT WE OFFER

• This is unique role with a genuine opportunity to make an impact. You’ll get to work in a diverse environment with a team of professionals who are passionate about the work they do and know how to have some fun along the way.
• A healthy, fresh and sustainable lunch for a discounted price;
• A brand new building in the business area of Amsterdam-Zuid. The office is designed to maximize your performance, based on the new ways of working

CONCLUDING

Our people make us who we are. They are the brightest minds bringing the boldest ideas to life every day. If you’re the kind of person who refuses to settle, if you want to think bigger, learn faster and go further than you ever thought possible – we’d love to hear from you.