Strategy, Insights & Analyst Intern Pathway 2025

Are you looking to develop your career in the Consumer Goods industry in a Strategy, Insights or Analysis position? Do you want to work in a global business with world-leading brands and some of the best talent in the industry? Are you looking for a 1 year industrial placement internship from summer 2025 in London?

If so, we’re looking for Strategy, Insights and Analytics interns like you! Apply below to share your details and CV with us. If we’re a match, we’ll be in touch to discuss more.

What will you be doing?

You could be working for any one of the following positions in our London office:

• Market Strategy & Intelligence – these positions are in our Travel Retail (‘Pernod Ricard Travel Retail’) and our Global Gin (The Absolut Group, Gin Business Unit’) businesses, where you will tasked with running competitive intelligence and market data & analysis projects to support the development of brand and company strategy.
• Category Development - these positions sit in our domestic market (‘Pernod Ricard UK’) and global scotch (‘Chivas Brothers’) businesses, whose Category Development teams are customer and market experts who interpret sales, shopper and market data to understand why things are happening in the market, the implications thereof, and the likely impacts on the future of spirits and wine.
• Commercial Transformation – this position is in our Travel Retail business, where you’ll be involved with projects aimed at changing our commercial processes, technology, capability and objectives in order to help us beat the competition and build unassailable industry leadership.
• Data Analytics - this position is in our domestic market business where you will work with teams across our business to implement projects to improve our data quality. You will be responsible for managing and reporting on these projects, analysing data to highlight issues and presenting your analysis to our teams.

By applying to this stream, you could be considered for any of the above positions. You will be able to share a preference during the interview process.

Who are you? We’re looking for people who are:

• Completing a degree in any discipline from any UK university and with the ability to complete a year in industry starting  from summer 2025.
  • We also welcome applications from recent graduates who are open to undertaking a year-long placement.
• Highly interested in pursuing a career in Strategy or Analytical fields with a strong focus on brands and the consumer
• Curious, inquisitive, analytical and can communicate complex information simply
• Consumer centric and able to grasp the forces determining market performance and trends
• Able to show high mental agility (intellectual curiosity, embracing complexity, managing multiple priorities) and high people agility (building relationships, working well with others, emotional intelligence)
• Able to demonstrate a track record of excellence or of achieving results.

What do we offer?

• A global organisation with world-leading brands – we are the world #1 in premium spirits with over 240 premium brands available in over 160 countries.
• Fantastic opportunities to grow your career, in the UK and internationally – 50% of our UK positions are hired from within.
• A genuinely unique culture – we call it conviviality!
• Great benefits including private healthcare, 28 days’ holiday, free Wellbeing resources and a generous allowance in our staff shop!
• A socially-driven business, serious about Sustainability & Responsibility, Diversity & Inclusion and responsible drinking.

Why join us? Check out these links to see some of the great work we’re doing at Pernod Ricard

• Our global brands and their leading campaigns such as Absolut, (here and here), Ballantines’ support of True Music in our partnership with Boiler Room, Jameson x EFL (here and here) and Malibu’sDon’t Drink and Dive campaignwith Tom Daley!
• Our recognition as a leading employer by Forbes and one of the World’s Best Companies by Time magazine
• Our Sustainability and Responsibility commitments
• Our strong FY24 results

Application process

• Stage 1: Online application and CV submission
• Stage 2: Blended assessment - includes a video interview
• Stage 3: Assessment centre

We operate a hybrid working policy and our experience has found that our interns get the most out of their time with us if they are spending minimum 3, ideally 4 days per week in the office. We therefore ask that all our interns agree to spend 3-4 days per week in the office.

At Pernod Ricard, we are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process—please let us know if you require any adjustments to support you through your application.