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METRO/MAKRO

Wholesale food for HoReCa and traders

Assistant Category Manager Intern

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Internship · Winter 2027Nanterre, FranceNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Licence- or Master-level education in marketing, data, commerce, purchasing, or a similar field is sought.
  • Ability to analyze customer, market, category-performance, and product data and formulate initial recommendations.
  • Proficiency in Excel and interest in data-visualization tools such as Power BI; prior experience is an advantage but not required.
  • Ability to progressively understand product, customer, and market issues, with interest in trends and offer analysis.
  • Ability to manage several topics in parallel with organization and rigor.
  • Interpersonal ease and collaborative skills for working across internal teams.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in analyzing customer needs, the market and its trends, and category performance to contribute to offer strategy.
  • Support the preparation of assortment recommendations in coordination with marketing, purchasing, pricing, merchandising, and private-label teams.
  • Contribute to updating decision-support tools, including dashboards, competitive benchmarks, and one-off analyses, to support buyers.
  • Monitor and analyze key performance indicators, including revenue, margin, VMH, and number of purchasing customers, to support offer management.
  • Participate in organizing category reviews and improving assortment-management processes.
  • Collaborate across internal teams to ensure information about offer changes is shared effectively.
  • Help prepare communications about assortment updates and key periods for field teams.

Desired Qualifications

  • Prior experience with data-visualization tools such as Power BI.

About the Company

METRO/MAKRO

Wholesale food for HoReCa and traders

METRO supplies food and related products to professionals, including hotels, restaurants, caterers (HoReCa) and independent traders, through large physical stores and a delivery network. Its product access combines in-store shopping with Food Service Distribution (FSD) and a digitally connected experience, plus METRO MARKETS, an international online marketplace for professional customers that has grown since 2019. The company’s approach extends across more than 30 countries and relies on a multichannel model to reach about 15 million customers, supported by a workforce of over 85,000 and a 2023/24 sales figure of €31 billion. METRO prioritizes sustainability and reports recognition from indices like MSCI, Sustainalytics and CDP. The goal is to meet professional customers’ needs with reliable, scale-enabled wholesale distribution and digital marketplaces that enable efficient purchasing while expanding international reach.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Düsseldorf, Germany
Founded
1964

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