Kilian Paris Trade Marketing and Visual Merchandising Project Assistant

About Kilian Paris

Kilian Paris is a distinguished luxury fragrance maison founded in 2007 by Kilian Hennessy, heir to a lineage of French cognac craftsmanship and savoir-faire. Renowned for its audacious olfactory creations, refillable objects, and theatrical aesthetic, the brand invites employees to contribute to a world where perfume is treated as an art of seduction, memory, and lasting elegance. As part of The Estée Lauder Companies, Kilian Paris offers the intimacy of a niche maison alongside the reach of a global luxury group, attracting talents passionate about creativity, client excellence, artisanal detail, and the codes of contemporary haute parfumerie.

Role & Responsibilities

• Support the 360° development of trade initiatives, including creating trade materials, preparing allocation layouts, checking creative assets, creating codes and coordinating supply, in close collaboration with Design, Sales and Supply teams across all retail partners.
• Track trade projects weekly with the Design team.
• Coordinate trade activation operations and schedules with Commercial and Retail teams.
• Develop and implement distinctive activations for Parisian flagships and department stores with the Design and Department Store teams.
• Prepare for and participate in the January, March and June sales meetings.
• Support the preparation of marketing presentations for clients.
• Develop sales support tools.
• Conduct store visits and competitor monitoring.
• Implement launches at Paris points of sale.
• Update visuals for new products and campaign and display merchandising materials.
• Create planogram books and briefs for service providers for store openings.
• Check the execution of merchandising installations.
• Provide on-site after-sales support to department stores, following point-of-sale installations and in response to requests from sales representatives and department stores.
• Track specific merchandising projects in collaboration with Trade Marketing and corporate teams.
• Coordinate office shipments.
• Update price signage following price increases.
• Support VIP visits.

Qualifications

• Business school education at Bac+4 level or higher; currently in a second gap year or final year of study.
• At least 6 months of marketing experience in similar roles.
• Very good command of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Fluent English.
• Excellent communication skills; proactive and responsive, with good time and stress management.
• Reliable, rigorous and autonomous, with strong interpersonal skills and the ability to manage several topics at once across two brands with distinct identities.
• Sensitivity to the world of luxury and exceptional perfumery.
• Excellent ability to build cross-functional relationships through collaborative communication.

Skills

Experience

At least 6 months of marketing experience in similar roles.

Education

Business school education at Bac+4 level or higher; currently in a second gap year or final year of study.

Benefits

Possibility of remote work, product benefits throughout the internship, and integration events dedicated to interns.

Culture

Kilian Paris fosters a refined, creative workplace culture rooted in the codes of haute perfumery, Parisian elegance, and bold olfactive storytelling. As an employer, it values craftsmanship, artistic curiosity, and a meticulous sense of luxury, encouraging teams to deliver distinctive client experiences with sophistication and passion.

About Cerulean

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