Pernod Ricard, Global Innovation & Business Analyst Intern

Category Analysis & Business Intelligence

• Report & analyze Nielsen, IWSR, and internal data to identify category performance drivers, market opportunities and risks.
• Track global non-alcoholic spirits and adjacent beverage trends, including competitor launches, pricing, formats, claims and route-to-market choices.
• Support local market strategy work by sizing opportunities, benchmarking competitors and translating analysis into practical recommendations.
• Build clear Excel analyses and executive-ready PowerPoint slides.

Innovation Project Management

• Support Non-Alc innovation projects through the internal NPD process, from opportunity framing to launch readiness (business case inputs, competitive benchmarks, tasting summaries and decision documents).
• Contribute to consumer learning plans, concept tests and analysis of results to define clear implications for product development.
• Coordinate tastings, sample shipments and stakeholder feedback collection.
• Track launch performance, consolidate learnings, and identify improvements for future non-alcoholic innovations.

Knowledge Building & Strategic Framing

• Prepare monthly competitive and trend updates covering non-alcoholic spirits and adjacent categories.
• Maintain internal FAQ decks, market trackers, competitor benchmarks and project resources used by the global team.
• Run focused deep dives on emerging brands, consumption occasions, consumer needs, ingredients, formats and pricing models.
• Organize category tastings to help the team assess products, claims, liquid quality and consumer relevance.

• Master’s student in business school, engineering school or university
• Previous experience in business analysis, consulting, FMCG, category management, market research, or strategy
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable working with numbers, building structured analyses and turning findings into clear recommendations
• Strong interest in innovation, beverages, consumer trends and moderation
• Knowledge of Nielsen, IWSR or similar databases is a plus
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; ability to build clean analyses and concise slides
• Structured, reliable and proactive, with the ability to manage several workstreams
• Fluent in English (French is a plus).