MARKETING AT RITUALS
Our Marketing Department is responsible for all Rituals’ marketing efforts around the globe. From our Amsterdam office, we decide on how to approach our world-wide customer base and ensure our local marketing teams have a clear marketing vision for local implementation. We have around 60 marketing professionals working at our Central Head Office, divided in several specific marketing teams. In total, we have 4 internship opportunities in the following Marketing teams:

Trade Marketing, Instore Communications, Marketing Campaigns and International Marketing Asia. Please find a description of each internship below.

TRADE MARKETING

Together with the Global and Local Wholesale teams, our Trade Marketing Team drives the digital and offline expansion of Rituals at our wholesale partners (e.g. Sephora, de Bijenkorf, Zalando). As an intern, you support the Trade Marketing team on dedicated projects, operational requests, briefings and reporting.

Your accountabilities

• Support in building and evaluating our campaigns across markets
• Creation of communication material (offline/online).
• Analyze and improve processes of internal tools (e.g. store visit app, toolbox)
• Coordinate input and output of team tools
• Trend and competitor research

MARKETING CAMPAIGNS

Our Marketing Campaigns team is responsible for all Rituals’ omnichannel marketing campaigns. This can be a market moment such as Mother’s Day or Easter, a digital campaign introducing our new Limited Edition or a global campaign with magazine ads, billboards and events around the world! We work closely with the entire organization to bring impactful, captivating campaigns to our customer.

Your accountabilities:

As the Marketing Campaigns intern, you support the entire team in their daily tasks and projects. For example, you conduct competitor/trend research and gather inspiration at the beginning of the campaign life cycle, track and analyze performance once it goes live and evaluate campaigns’ success. You will have your regular weekly tasks but also have the opportunity to work on exciting projects and collaborate with different teams. 

INTERNATIONAL MARKETING

Our International Marketing team focuses on ensuring we operate as a global brand across all international markets. We represent and guide the markets across the functional departments within the company, and funnel the Marketing and assortment needs and requests from the markets. This way we strengthen, simplify and improve our projects which will ultimately help us accelerate growth within our international markets. 

Your Accountabilities: 

As the International Marketing Intern you are part of the International Marketing team and support the team members with Marketing related projects and product assortment projects across international markets. You coordinate between different teams from the local offices and central head office to ensure we can successfully implement our programs and projects while listening and understanding the markets’ needs. In addition, you will support the team with creating presentations and help us understand the trends and insights by doing competitor and market research in order for us to grow in our international markets.

INSTORE COMMUNICATION

A customer journey on the retail floor isn’t complete without amazing instore communication materials. Our goal is to create a high-level output of strong qualitative instore communication materials, and this team makes that happen! These projects are focused on promotions, market moments, limited editions, store openings and other specialties.

The base of the instore communications strategy is our international marketing backplanning and commercial and customer highlights.
Our team is responsible for Rituals’ owned stores, Franchise Stores, Wholesale locations (such as Sephora, Douglas and Bijenkorf), Travel (such as Airport retail locations), House of Rituals and Outlets. We focus on all instore print and digital content, promotional tables, pop-ups and windows. As a part of the overall Marketing department, our Instore Communications team consists of 8 project managers. We work very closely with our Graphic Designers in our inhouse Agency and with our Traffic colleagues who ensure all POS materials are printed and delivered to all our stores worldwide.

Your Accountabilities: 

• You get to work in a highly creative environment where you support the creative- and production process.
• As an intern, you support the entire team working on several projects for all our stores. This can differ from small (local) promotions to big projects such as our Seasonal promotions.

PRACTICALITIES

All internships are located in Amsterdam, at our Central Head Office. We are looking for interns for 32-40 hours a week, from the 1st of February, for 5-6 months.

• Education: Currently studying in HBO/WO education in Communication/ BA/Hotel Management/ Marketing/Branding other. *Please note we can only accept applications from candidates who are actively enrolled in their study.
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Good skills: planning, organization, and multitasking
• You can work with Canva, PowerPoint, and Excel

We will host a recruitment day on Wednesday, 4th December, Interested in joining? We are looking forward receiving your application and will let you know within 10 days if you are invited for the recruitment day. Please state in your motivation which specific Marketing internship you are interested in.

Note: Rituals cannot support in (temporary) housing or facilitate sponsorship for applicable visa. All applicants must already live/study in (the area of) Amsterdam.