Intern Trade Activation

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.

Sales

Our Sales teams help to deliver Reckitt's purpose by building shared success with our customers, making access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment possible in-stores and online. Within Sales, we're focused on achieving outperformance across all of our channels, operating in highly competitive categories. This focus results in a dynamic, fast paced environment where cross functional teams are encouraged to collaborate to achieve success. We have around 10,000 sales people across the world, within market roles and ranging in areas like Field Sales, Key Accounts, Trade Marketing and Category Development.

About the role

As an Intern Trade Activation, you will support the Channel Activation team in translating commercial and brand strategies into customer-specific activation plans across key retail channels. This is a highly analytical and cross-functional role that sits between Sales and Trade Marketing. You will work closely with Key Account Managers, National Account Managers, Trade Marketing teams, Finance and Supply functions to monitor business performance, analyze market trends and support the execution of category and channel initiatives. You will gain exposure to leading FMCG brands and major retail customers, contributing to projects focused on assortment, promotion, pricing, category development and sales performance.

Your responsibilities

• Support the execution and tracking of the 4P strategy (Presence, Promotion, Price and Positioning), including promotional activities, leaflet visibility and competitive analysis.

• Analyse sell-in, sell-out and sales performance data, monitoring key KPIs and identifying trends, opportunities and business gaps across customers and channels.

• Leverage Nielsen databases and customer insights to evaluate market, category and shopper performance and support commercial recommendations.

• Contribute to category management projects, including assortment reviews, planogram development and category analysis through SpaceMan.

• Support the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of customer activation plans, commercial initiatives and new product launches.

• Prepare reports, dashboards and presentations to support business reviews, strategic discussions and commercial decision-making.

• Collaborate with Sales, Trade Marketing, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain and external partners to coordinate projects and ensure effective execution of customer and category initiatives.

The monthly salary for this position is €1000 gross.

The company guarantees equal opportunities in access, treatment, and professional development, in compliance with applicable legislation.

The experience we're looking for

• Currently pursuing or recently completed a Master’s degree in Economics, Marketing, Business Administration, Management or a related analytical field.

• Previous academic or internship experience involving data analysis, business analysis or commercial projects is considered a plus.

• Interest in FMCG, Sales, Trade Marketing and Category Management.

• A proactive and curious mindset, with a strong willingness to learn, ask questions and turn insights into action.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across different teams and stakeholders.

• Strong organizational skills, adaptability and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong analytical mindset and confidence working with data and deriving actionable recommendations.

• Good knowledge of Microsoft Excel (including Pivot Tables and VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP) and PowerPoint.

• Fluency in both Italian and English is mandatory.

The skills for success

Analytical Thinking, Data Analysis, Excel Proficiency, Business Acumen, Category Management, Presentation Skills, Commercial Mindset, Attention to Detail, Curiosity, Proactivity, Collaboration, Stakeholder Management, Agility, Adaptability, Problem Solving.

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.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.