Strategy intern

Take a step forward and let Edenred surprise you.

Every day, we deliver innovative solutions to improve the life of millions of people, connecting employees, companies, and merchants all around the world. 

We know there are hundred ways for you to grow. With us, you will expand your skills in a multicultural, challenging, and dynamic environment. 

Dare to join Edenred and get ready to thrive in a global company that will offer you endless opportunities.

Edenred is all about meritocracy. You come as you are, and you contribute. Indeed, the Edenred Group recognizes, recruits and develops all talents and singularities.

We are committed to preventing all forms of discrimination and to providing all our candidates with equal opportunities regardless of their gender and gender expression, disability, origin, religious belief and sexual orientation or any other criteria.

WHAT IS EDENRED?

Edenred is a leading digital platform for services and payments and the everyday companion for people at work, connecting over 50 million users and 2 million partner merchants in 46 countries via more than 950,000 corporate clients.
Edenred offers specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), mobility (such as multi-energy, maintenance, toll, parking and commuter solutions), incentives (such as gift cards, employee engagement platforms) and corporate payments (such as virtual cards).
True to the Group's purpose, "Enrich connections. For good.", these solutions enhance users' well-being and purchasing power. They improve companies' attractiveness and efficiency.
They nurture over 2 million merchants in the world with incremental consumers spending.
Edenred's 12,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day.
Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices:
CAC 40, CAC 40 ESG, CAC Next 20, FTSE4Good, CAC large 60 and MSCI Europe.

CONTEXT

Since 2016 Edenred has embarked in a deep transformation exercise:

A strategic growth plan (called "Next Frontier" and “Beyond”), setting precise growth objectives and levers, per country, per zone and at group level

An acceleration of Edenred's transition to Digital, in its product & service offer, in its core processes and in its IT organization

A much stronger focus on go-to-market strategies, product marketing and customer marketing

A rebranding exercise, to better formulate its mission to the outer world

A proactive diversification strategy: new spending categories, new geographies, new user segments

As of January 2022, Edenred reorganized in 3 Business Lines, with the Benefits and Engagement
Business Line accounting for 65% of Edenred Group results with geographical presence in:

EMEA (20 countries), including France, Italy, Romania

Latin America, notably Brazil

USA, UK and Australia, notably through the acquisition of Reward Gateway in 2023

In October 2022, Edenred revealed its Beyond 22-25 strategy for the Group, and for the Employee Benefits Division which is set on 3 strategic priorities:

1) Scale the Core: in particular Meal & Food solutions. Edenred is the worldwide leader in Employee Benefits, with growth to continue to be fuelled by further penetrating its core markets, through more acquisitions (SME penetration, web-sales and indirect sales), more engagement (innovation and best-in-class customer experience) and more monetisation (pricing & value-added services)

2) Accelerate Beyond Food: Leveraging Edenred’s platform advantage to aggregate new benefits (e.g., mobility, as illustrated by their Betterway acquisition in France), building on each country’s local tax and regulatory environment.

3) Expand in New Businesses: Focusing on Engagement solutions and growth in the US market, especially through M&A

In 2023, in line with this Beyond Strategy, Edenred acquired GOintegro and Reward Gateway, 2 leadings Employee Engagement providers to materialize this vision.

By widening its Employee Savings offer, integrating new services such as well-being, and expanding its value proposition to Rewards & Recognition solutions, GOintegro and Reward Gateway provide Edenred with a unique opportunity to further accelerate in Beyond Food while enlarging its footprint by entering new promising and fast-growing markets.

Within Employee Benefits, the Strategy team is in charge of:

Strategy

M&A due diligence

Special projects to the Employee Benefits COO

Business development

Business Excellence

OUR COMMITMENT

Edenred is all about meritocracy. You come as you are, and you contribute. Indeed, the Edenred Group recognizes, recruits and develops all talents and singularities.
We are committed to preventing all forms of discrimination and to providing all our candidates with equal opportunities regardless of their gender and gender expression, disability, origin, religious belief and sexual orientation or any other criteria.

YOUR MISSION

The missions of the Strategy Intern are:
Strategy

Support Employee Benefits Strategic Plan elaboration (3-year plan)

Help to define Business Line strategy and ambition in Employee Engagement Platform market

M&A

Participate to strategic due diligence of M&A targets

Ad hoc support

Help the strategy team members on ad-hoc subjects (e.g. business development projects, etc.)

Supervise countries operational performance monitoring

The intern will report to the ‘Strategic Project Manager’.

Mission duration: 6 months

OUR REQUIREMENTS

Bac +5, Business / Engineering school, ideally in second part of her/his gap-year or for final year student - Mandatory Internship Agreement

Interest for strategy and finance

Ability to work collaboratively in a transversal role

Mastering of Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

Analytical and communication skills

Fluent in French and English

INTERNSHIP DETAILS

Internship contract (6 months, flexible)

Full-time

Start date: July 2024

Based at Edenred HQ, 16 Boulevard Garibaldi, 92310 Issy – Les – Moulineaux

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

Have a global perspective on Edenred operations, focusing on the future of the Business Be exposed to Edenred top managers

Have a good work-life balance

Enjoy HR benefits

Meal vouchers and access to collective restaurant

60% transport reimbursement