Brand Trade Marketing Trainee BNL

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.

Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

About the role

 Reporting to the Brand Trade Marketing Manager, you will quickly learn everything about the whole Reckitt hygiene/health portfolio and different categories. Together with the marketing & sales teams, you will develop winning category growth strategies in Belgium & Netherlands. 

To be eligible for the role, you must be enrolled in a University based in the EU and be able to obtain an internship/university agreement for the duration of the position, January 2025 - July 2025.

Your responsibilities

• Daily Operations:
  • Track the performance of the BNL market (assortment, promotions, merchandising) and recommend adapted action plans.
  • Learn to adopt a “Category-First” approach, leveraging different category growth strategies to strengthen the plans of the brands.
  •  Execute analysis to recommend the optimal promotional strategy.
  • Be responsible for KPI tracking (Promotions & Distribution).
  • Present a business case at the end of your internship.
  • Potentially Manage specific category & brand projects.

• Analysis & Reporting:
  • Assist with weekly and daily performance reporting and identify discrepancies between internal data and market data.
  • Help prepare dashboards for market performance and promotional effectiveness.
  • Support monthly analysis on various marketing topics for the department (promotional strategy, distribution efficiency, category growth, etc.).

The experience we're looking for

• Student at a business school with demonstrated autonomy and organizational skills.
• Sensibility for FMCG processes.
• Eager to learn and result-oriented.
• Disciplined with a keen eye for detail and analytical skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and a collaborative team spirit.
• Proficient in English.

The skills for success

Trade Marketing, Sales; Field Sales, Ecommerce, Analysing sales and Ecommerce data, Consumer Insights; Shopper Insights; Customer Insights; Category Analysis, Collaboration and partnership skills; Influencing, Consultative Selling, Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product planning, Business acumen; financial acumen, commercial accumen, Sales negotiation, P&L Management, Strategy Execution, Operational Excellence.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.

We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

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