Commercial Development & Execution Excellence Intern July 2026

Context

Created in 1975 from the merger of Ricard and Pernod the Pernod Ricard Group has grown steadily and has become the second biggest group in the Wine & Spirits industry thanks to its highly diverse portfolio.

Listed on the CAC 40 with revenues of 10Bn EUR the group has activities in more than 80 countries thanks to its nearly 19000 employees.

Within this global footprint The Commercial Excellence team at PR HQ Global Markets is responsible for building the PR Way for Commercial with convergent processes and ways-of-working seeking scale and agility to beat the market.

The Commercial Development & Execution Excellence team within Commercial Excellence is responsible for the field sales excellence customer engagement and sales training & upskilling initiatives being built and deployed to markets.

Job purpose:

As a Global Commercial Development & Execution Excellence Intern you will contribute to accelerating Pernod Ricards commercial performance across markets gaining exposure to strategic topics crossfunctional collaboration and stateoftheart sales capabilities.

The Commercial Development & Execution Excellence Intern will support the team across key initiatives within the Achieving Commercial Excellence (ACE) framework which aims to uplift market capabilities across execution excellence customer engagement and sales team upskilling. The intern will also contribute to the acceleration of our digital transformation helping prepare materials analysis and coordination activities linked to the DSTAR Key Digital Program.

Main responsibilities:

1. Support Commercial Maturity Assessment (CMA) Delivery

• Assist the team in preparing CMA missions with markets.
• Help collect structure and analyze market inputs ahead of CMA workshops.
• Support followup activities after CMAs (summaries documentation updates to action plans).
• Contribute to tracking the progress of key Commercial Excellence initiatives across markets.

2. Support to ACE (Achieving Commercial Excellence) Initiatives

• Assist in maintaining the definition and documentation of global standards for selected ACE initiatives.
• Help prepare benchmarking materials and consolidate best practices from PR market companies.
• Support coordination with Tech teams (C3 AI etc.) by preparing inputs notes and followup actions.
• Contribute to the internal communication materials related to ACE frameworks and updates.
• Participate in preparing content and logistics for ACE task forces or working groups.

3. DSTAR Key Digital Program (KDP) Support

DSTAR is a Pernod Ricard digital product enriched with data and machine learning empowering sales teams with actionable insights to allocate resources more effectively.

The intern will:

• Support the Commercial Excellence team in coordinating DSTAR deployments in selected markets.
• Help prepare roadmap content followup actions meeting notes and presentation materials.
• Contribute to KPI tracking business value dashboard monitoring and analysis of market performance.
• Support the organization of key governance rituals
• Assist in preparing communication materials (newsletters updates learning content).

4. ACE Vision & Framework Support

• Contribute to the development of selected ACE frameworks tools or guidelines.
• Support the update of ACE documentation based on new learnings from markets.
• Help consolidate insights and feedback to refine PR Commercial Excellence vision and roadmap.

Past experience:

• Must-haves:
  • Academic background in Business Management Marketing Engineering or similar.
  • Previous professional experience in a tech company consulting company or project management in a multinational company or complex matrixial organization context
  • Strong interest in Commercial topics (Sales RoutetoMarket Customer Strategy)
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to structure and interpret data.
  • Strong communication and presentation skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional and international teams.
  • Curiosity adaptability and willingness to learn.
  • Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint Excel ) and capacity to deliver content in efficient and agile manner.
  • Ability to work in a multicultural team
  • Fluent in English. French and/or other languages are a plus.

• Nice-to-have:
  • Experience in digital transformation and business-oriented software deployment
  • Understanding of sales processes especially in Consumer Goods industry
  • Basic data science/machine learning knowledge and understanding
  • Familiarity with Agile ways of working and tools.

Location:

• Paris France (The Island)

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