Go To Market Assortment Internship

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We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.
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Your role
We are looking for an Eyewear and AFA Grids Execution Assistant who will join the Go To Market Assortment team. Within the Market Strategy Operations division, the GTM Assortment Team takes care of the assortment management for the product categories as eyewear, goggles and AFA (Apparel, Footwear, Accessories) with the aim of ensuring that strategic commercial distribution choices are reflected in the composition of assortments at market/customer level. The team is also responsible for ensuring the opening of the orderability, differentiated where required, for the different order intake systems (SAP and Digital Tools) compared to the timing defined by the Go To Market calendars, the logic of segmentation Product-Customers and Business inputs of the Market Strategy team. The mission of the team is to constantly seek improvements in assortment management processes in compliance with company policies and to have control and monitoring tools for all stakeholders to assess the performance achieved. The resource will be inserted in the team of GTM Assortment Management in the role of Assistant and will follow the activities of the perimeter WHS and Retail. In reference to the Retail channel, he/she will support the day-by-day management of the banners already live and will complete the Go Live plan for the Banner-Region provided in the roadmap with the integration of the new AFA product category. He/She will also be responsible for supporting the reference Line Manager in the development and testing activities of the WHS channel with respect to the integration of the AFA product category by producing the functional technical documentation and training support. He/She will also contribute to the ordinary management activities by interfacing with the reference functions and sharing weekly the progress of the activities in charge. He/She will support the team in identifying areas for improvement in processes and implementing new developments. Main tool used to complete daily activities will be SAP. Excel analysis, Power Point presentation and Word document preparation will also be required. The resource will report directly to the Line Manager. The ideal candidate has strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Team readiness, results orientation and flexibility complete the profile.
Main Responsibilities

• Support in the ordinary and extraordinary management of assortments for the different order acquisition tools
  • Management of exclusivity rules and requests for postponement of visibility by subsidiaries with critical analysis and approval of requests.
  • Support in creating new assortments for creating new sales orgs, datest and/or digital tool activations.
  • Support in day-by-day activities for managing and updating assortments according to requests from local teams and corporate teams
• Development and management of reports to support the activity, with the identification of the main KPIs.
• Identification of areas for improvement and/or management of new product categories based on business inputs and support in the IT implementation of new developments
• Weekly activity monitoring and sharing
• Support in the preparation of technical documentation and training material
  

• Educational Background in Economics / Management / Engineering
• Strong analytical and technical mindset
• Solid experience with Microsoft Office tool (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Preferrable experience in ERP system (SAP)
• Preferrable experience with Business Intelligence e Reporting systems
• Good knowledge of Italian and English (other languages are