Working Student / Assistant Sales & Trade Marketing (f/m/d)

As Sales & Trade Marketing Assistant you enter a role of up to 24 months in parallel to your Master’s studies, offering experience in operational workstreams and driving commercial ownership rather than short-term internship tasks. You will support both colleagues from Key Account Management and Trade / Retail Marketing across different customers and brands. This is the ideal start for you to become part of our team, get to love our brands, understand the daily operations of sales and marketing roles and show your commercial understanding in specific projects.

Our office is just a short tram ride away from the center of Basel, and we offer flexible working hours and flexibility to split them between on-site days for maximum interaction with the team and remote home office options.

Working Hours: 50% Pensum (20.5 hours/week) - with flexibility to balance around exam periods

Target Group: Enrolled Master’s students

Key Responsibilities:

• Key Account Management Support: Assist Key Account Managers in day-to-day operations and promotional management for retail accounts in Switzerland.

• Promotional Planning Support: Assist in planning, steering copacking process, evaluating, and tracking promotions and customer-specific activations.

• Listing & Listing Preparation: Support the team during annual listing negotiations and assortment changes by creating product sell-sheets, master data files, presentation materials and data updates with customers.

• Category & Competitor Tracking: Conduct store checks, monitor competitor activities at the omni-point of sale, and gather shopper insight data.

• Customer Presentation Creation: Draft account-specific presentations, pitch decks, and performance reviews.

• POS & Trade Activation: Support the implementation and coordination of shopper marketing campaigns, POS activations, and secondary displays across retail partners.

• Digital shelf: Manage our digital shelf across owned webpages and retailer e-commerce platforms.

• Retail Media: Managing end-to-end execution and localization of local retail media campaigns (agency briefing, coordination of asset production, ensuring on-time delivery).

Requirements:

• Enrolled student in Master’s program Business Administration, Economics, Sales, Marketing, or a related field

• Strong interest in FMCG, Retail, Sales, Marketing

• Fluent in German and proficient in English

• Strong MS Office / Google Suite skills (especially spreadsheets, presentations)

• Hands-on, proactive, well organized, reliable and communicative team player with a structured & analytical approach to problem-solving

• Affinity to AI tool