Kendo Operational Marketing Assistant Intern

About Kendo

Kendo is a dynamic beauty brand incubator within the LVMH family, renowned for creating and scaling distinctive names that shape contemporary prestige beauty. Since its founding in 2010, the company has combined entrepreneurial agility with the resources and standards of a global luxury group, fostering brands such as Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Ole Henriksen, and KVD Beauty. As an employer, Kendo offers an inventive, fast-moving environment where creativity, commercial rigor, inclusivity, and digital fluency converge. Its teams are encouraged to challenge convention, build culturally resonant products, and contribute to a portfolio defined by innovation, authenticity, and global ambition.

Role & Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support successful product launches across Europe.
• Contribute to product launch implementation.
• Analyze performance, prepare reporting and make recommendations.
• Support markets by implementing specific marketing initiatives.
• Ensure brand visibility on Sephora e-commerce sites by delivering product matrices and assets.
• Ensure the brand’s CRM visibility.
• Manage marketing support materials, including country allocations, ordering, and logistics and budget tracking.
• Conduct pricing studies, competitor monitoring, trend tracking and benchmarking.
• Contribute to the development and monitoring of the Trade Marketing plan.
• Coordinate the development of in-country Trade Marketing activations, from briefing and production follow-up to point-of-sale materials approval and performance analysis.
• Support the Brand Manager’s daily responsibilities.
• Track performance using reporting tools.
• Coordinate calls and meetings with the US headquarters, participate in meetings and follow up on specific requests.
• Update 360° Marketing plans.
• Contribute to budget monitoring.

Qualifications

• Higher education at Bac+4/5 level.
• Interest in product launch tracking and developing 360° plans, with the aim of building knowledge of the cosmetics market and European Brand and Trade Marketing strategies.
• Autonomous, organized and proactive, with the ability to prioritize actions.
• Able to adapt to dynamic environments, situations and interlocutors.
• Strong interest in cosmetics and motivation to contribute in a start-up environment.
• Excellent command of IT tools.
• Fluent English is essential.

Skills

Education

Higher education at Bac+4/5 level.

Culture

Kendo offers a fast-moving, entrepreneurial culture where brand builders, creatives, and beauty experts collaborate to develop distinctive global beauty brands. As part of the LVMH ecosystem, it combines the agility of an independent incubator with the standards, resources, and international perspective of a luxury group. The environment values innovation, inclusivity, commercial excellence, and hands-on ownership at every level.

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