We are looking for an Intern to join our Global Merchandising Team located in Marimekko’s HQ in Helsinki!
Our Global Merchandising team is responsible for executing the merchandising strategy ensuring seamless delivery aligned with the brand's strategy, business objectives, design direction and global market needs.
The internship is full-time and fixed-term for 6 months. The intern will report to the Head of Global Merchandising. We hope you can start as soon as possible.
Your responsibilities will include, among other things:
As a Merchandiser Intern you will be assisting our Global Merchandisers within Ready to Wear and Bags & Accessories in their daily tasks.
Cross-functional interaction and collaboration with various internal teams is the key in engaging all internal partners into the collection process. Beside the team members within the Merchandising function, your closest partners will be Design and Sourcing teams, Global Retail and Wholesale,
In this role, you need to analyze global sales performance, sell-in and sell-out in order to be able to transform business insights into actions and strategy for seasonal collection building. You will be assisting in the collection assortment and retail pricing processes as well as in preparing and deliver internal presentations.
To succeed in this role, we believe that you are an ambitions person that strives for structure and with an eye for details. You are a driven person that enjoys working towards set deadlines and high qualitative targets in a fast phased environment. You are also a strong communicator that appreciates transparency and knowledge sharing. And of course, you share our core values; Living- not pretending, Fairness to everyone and everything, Common sense, Getting things done-together, Courage-even at the risk of failure & Joy.
You will work with our data systems Dafo, Qlickview and Adobe Pro.
We expect you to have/be:
- Student or recently graduated from business- or textile education
- Analytical skills
- A strong business acumen
- High interest in fashion and trends
- Fluent written and verbal communication skills in English
- Have good MS Office experience
We at Marimekko want to offer meaningful learning experiences for interns. We give you the opportunity to apply what you have learned during your studies to a real position in the Marimekko organization. Our internship program offers the opportunity for career exploration and development, as well as learning new skills. During your internship, you will have daily support from our professionals. This is an opportunity for you to accelerate your career and get a glimpse of our ways of working and better your understanding of what the functions of a global design company do on a daily basis.
As an intern, you are entitled to our personnel benefits:
- Reduced prices on Marimekko products
- Work clothes benefit
- Sports, wellbeing & culture benefit
- Morning porridge and lunch benefit at Maritori
- Wide occupational healthcare
- Gifts and honours
Want to join our Marimekko team?
To start with, tell us a bit more about yourself, we want to get to know you. What type of interests do you have and what you would like to learn more about? Please include what you have been studying and what kind of past work experience you might have in your CV. Do also share your strongest personal traits in your Cover Letter. We also would like to hear what your expectations towards us are. Send you CV and Cover Letter via our career page: Open jobs – Marimekko as a company | We as a company as soon as possible, but no later than on 28th of August.
Marimekko's culture and working environment are founded on equality, inclusion and cherishing diversity. Recruitment is always based on business need, and the candidates are evaluated on relevant knowledge, skills and experience as well as motivation.