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Strategy & Operations Intern Italy
Department:Marketing
Location:Barcelona
About the Opportunity
We are looking for a highly motivated and resourceful Strategy & Operations Intern to join our team and support our expansion in the Italian market. This role is a unique hybrid, offering hands-on experience across business strategy and marketing. This is an ideal position for a recent graduate who is eager to understand how a high-growth company scales in a local market through both strategic planning and marketing execution.In this role, you will:
Support Strategy & Operations of the Branch- Market Research: Conduct deep-dive research into the Italian market, focusing on competitor moves, local trends, and new partnership opportunities.
- Branch Monitoring: Support the IT Branch Manager in monitoring local operational health, tracking branch-specific KPIs, and identifying bottlenecks.
- Product & Business Support: Provide localized insights to the Product and Business teams to help them better integrate with local partners and Italian user needs.
- Strategic Mapping: Assist in identifying and evaluating high-impact partnership opportunities that align with our long-term Italian market strategy.
- Performance Tracking: Assist in conducting data-driven research to track marketing performance metrics
- Reporting: Help prepare weekly growth steering reports, highlighting key insights and channel performance for the Italian market.
- Experimental Growth: Help identify and document new experimental initiatives that support our overall user and revenue growth objectives.
- Campaign Coordination: Help execute ad-hoc growth initiatives and co-marketing campaigns with local partners to expand our reach.
What you need to be successful:
- The Foundation: Recent graduate of a degree in Business, Economy, or a related field, with a strong interest in the fintech/startup ecosystem.
- Analytical Mindset: Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets (Pivot tables, basic formulae) and a desire to learn data visualization tools like Tableau or Looker.
- Resourcefulness: A proactive "builder" mentality, you are comfortable researching solutions and taking initiative on new tasks.
- Market Knowledge: Understanding of the Italian market, including cultural nuances and the local digital landscape.
- Linguistic Fluency: Professional fluency in Italian is required; professional fluency in English is essential for our international environment.
Skills:
- Data-Driven: A natural inclination to use data to solve problems and measure the success of your initiatives.
- Strategic Thinking: The ability to look beyond daily tasks to understand the "why" behind our market expansion strategy.
- Organization: Strong project management skills to keep track of multiple campaigns and research projects simultaneously.
- Relationship Management: Ability to communicate professionally with partners, influencers, and internal stakeholders.
- Operational Agility: Comfort moving between high-level strategy research and hands-on marketing execution.