Enterprise Marketing Intern

Alkemics is a B2B business platform enabling retailers to discover, negotiate and launch new products from their 1000+ suppliers.

In Europe alone, millions of products are launched every year, each with up to 500 attributes and made by one of 300,000+ manufacturers. Prior to Alkemics, establishing a commercial relationship required numerous back-and-forths between retailers and brands, physically (in trade shows, for instance) or pseudo-digitally (fax, email, XLS templates...) and between various teams (procurement, category management, quality, CSR, e-commerce, marketing...). Because of this painful process, it often took more than 60 days to launch a product. This situation is unsustainable at a time where consumers are demanding a broader product choice, more local products, where Amazon and Alibaba are raising the bar of omnichannel efficiency, and at a time where Lidl and Aldi are setting a standard for productivity.

Alkemics disrupted the space with a fully digital platform where brands create and share their product catalog. Retailers can explore those catalogs and run business workflows, searches or reportings to select, negotiate and list those products in their assortment. Once a retailer is on-boarded, invites are sent to that retailer’s suppliers to join the platform on a freemium basis, enabling quick network growth.

Alkemics was founded in Paris in 2012. With 98 out of the top 100 CPG manufacturers (Nestlé, Unilever, L’Oréal), the 7 largest retailers in France (E. Leclerc, Carrefour, Casino, Auchan, U-Enseigne, Cora, Metro…) and 4 of the largest UK retailers (Tesco, Ocado, Waitrose, Sainsbury) using the platform, Alkemics now holds a very strong and unchallenged position in the French and UK market. The business is now expanding internationally, starting with DACH and BENELUX. Along with international growth, the focus of the business is to leverage its platform and client relationships to build an end-to-end B2B marketplace with the ultimate vision of ordering directly within the platform.

Alkemics raised a total of $50M from tier-1 investors Index Ventures, Partech Ventures, Serena Capital and Cathay Innovation. Its latest funding round took place in April 2020, bringing in Highland Europe, a leading Growth VC. The business is made of 100 employees and is growing extremely rapidly.

Background

Online marketplaces are now commonplace for C2C and B2C markets. This trend has started in B2B sectors too, driving tremendous value and economies of scale. Today, thanks to a captive user base, Alkemics is in a strong position to “platformize” the notoriously difficult retail space. Brands are keen to have their products discovered in a more efficient and elegant way. Retailers are interested in negotiating products more quickly. Brands also want to better control the product introductions within each store.

Missions

As an intern in the Enterprise Marketing team, you will assist the team to achieve its objectives of raising awareness on new markets and generating new leads.

Your key missions will be:

• Build the social media plan (2 posts per week on LinkedIn + Twitter);
• Follow the interactions on social media and register the interesting leads in our CRM tool;
• Work on Account Based Marketing researches, following our structured methodology:
  • For every targeted account, who are the key personas?
  • What is the latest news on every account and the topics of interest for every key persona?
• Build a monthly reporting on press coverages: press clipping and internal communication with a qualitative and quantitative analysis;
• Build attractive landing pages for our marketing campaigns;
• Update our website with our latest news (e.g.: press releases, new clients, etc.);
• Help the Marketing Project Manager to organize events.

We are looking for an intern for the next 6 months based in Paris.

• First internship experience in marketing would be a “plus”, looking for an impactful startup experience
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills
• Analytical skills, high rigour
• Can do attitude
• Transparent by nature, doer, able to work with cross-functional teams
• Capable of understanding, articulating and prioritizing tasks

• Fluent in English + French speaker

• A true startup experience in one of the fastest growing startup in Paris: no bureaucracy and daily successes that have a real impact on the business
• You will participate to the team's growth and the revolution of the CPG industry
• A fast-learning curve with growing responsibilities
• Working with dynamic, smart and passionate people