pan-european sales trainee

LOCATION: LYON START DATE: JUNE 2022 DURATION: 6 MONTHS PLEASE APPLY WITH A CV AND COVER LETTER IN ENGLISH WE ARE EA We are Electronic Art's Marketing and Commercial Organization (MCO). Our teams build meaningful relationships with hundreds of millions of players around the world who love our games. We aim to be the best at meeting players where they are and supporting them throughout their journey with EA. Our teams develop the strategic vision of our products, run outstanding multi-channel campaigns, build global engagement across all touch points, develop global insights, and propel sales and global publishing. We understand the dynamic global landscape so we can bring relevant content, promotions, and help to players anywhere. THE CHALLENGE AHEAD: A fantastic opportunity to be part of the most ambitious sales reorganization EA have been leading for decades, switching from a local based sales activity to a centralized one. Amazon was identified as a key retailer to level-up as a Pan-European partner, centrally managed. You will support this transition, building tools, process and harmonization guidelines to make this centralized sales activity effective. You will be working with multiple teams across the countries and departments in EA but also externally, including retail and agencies. WHAT A PAN-EUROPEAN SALES TRAINEE WILL DO: Sales Project: You’ll be responsible to review and harmonize all the existing sales support activities for Amazon EU, finding efficiencies and proposing improvements, while being responsible for the proper execution of them. This will require you to integrate internal and external processes to build a centralized management of the account. Such process will include; * Build and update the database of ASINS for the 5 territories * Set Up and distribute the New release Skus in Amazon EU5 * Define and manage the allocation process of pre-order codes for new releases * Support the Key on Demand project and implement at EU5 * Define and manage the price protections (externally and internally) Retail Marketing Project: Level Up and harmonize display execution strategy of EA's products and brands alongside Amazon, to enhance the user experience when visiting our product pages: * Help Amazon showcase EA products by maintaining enhanced products pages * Provide guidance to improve execution after scanning our back catalog. * Set up merchandising campaigns in VC * Harmonize titles and texts at EU5 to procure a standardized and excellent execution to the shopper in EU5 * Make recommendations by building the necessary reports on EA + Competition activities (screenshots / reports / analysis), based on previous checks of the Amazon execution. Promotional Calendar Project: Build a Pan-Eu process for the delivery and reporting of promotions and PMD that consolidate all the different steps needed to support a flawless execution of the promotional calendar. * Participate in building and fulfilling a Pan-EU promo tracker with finance * Implement the Promotions recommendations from the franchise team through the P&P and Digital planning including the setup of the promotions in VC * Create the documents to set up in the systems internally * Establish the check execution and build a reporting on EA + Competition activities (screenshots / reports / analysis). Make recommendations * Define and prepare settlements reports for invoicing process Data Analysis Toolbox project: Working alongside the Pan-EU Sales Analyst define and elaborate the set of reports needed to drive Amazon business, including the definition of the proper cadence of the reports, distribution and storage. This toolbox should include (among others): * Retailer Stock and Sales trackers, give inputs in terms of reorders and buildings * Pre-order report & tracking * Digital at Retail updates * Others.. THE NEXT GREAT PAN-EUROPEAN SALES TRAINEE ALSO NEEDS: * Studying last year of Business Administration, Economics, Marketing, Communication or related studies. * Interest in developing his/her career in the business areas related to sales, account management and/or retail marketing. * A passion and knowledge for video games and sport * Fluent French and business level English (the assignment includes frequent and regular exchanges with European team * Excellent knowledge of Excel including macros WE THOUGHT YOU MIGHT ALSO WANT TO KNOW: * More about our location: http://careers.ea.com/our-locations/lyon-ea-france ARE YOU READY FOR THE CHALLENGE? #LI-VEP1 Electronic Arts Inc. is a leading global interactive entertainment software company. EA delivers games, content and online services for Internet-connected consoles, personal computers, mobile phones and tablets.