Localization Academy

Travel Retail – Brand & Marketing Intern, IPSA & THE GINZA (Jun/Jul – Dec 2025)

ABOUT SHISEIDO TRAVEL RETAIL

Shiseido Travel Retail was established as Shiseido’s global duty-free business, which includes operations in airports, downtown stores, border shops, airlines, and ferries.

MAIN PURPOSE

Reporting directly to the Assistant Brand & Marketing Manager, you will gain hands-on experience in localizing marketing strategies and developing insight-driven 360 marketing activities that are meaningful for the channel while ensuring brand consistency across Travel Retail markets in APAC region. You will be tagged to the Prestige cluster, handling 2 brands: IPSA & THE GINZA.

You will be exposed to brand management fundamentals and the Travel Retail beauty industry with premium skincare brands. Other learning opportunities include a deeper understanding of the business value chain, the quick-evolving Chinese consumer digital & social landscape, and stakeholder management skills from working with people from various functions and countries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Brand & Marketing

  • Support seasonal launch updates, including the creation of launch books, forecasting, retailer presentations, outpost support, data management, research analysis, and adaptation/localization of creative content and marketing collateral.
  • Assist in campaign planning, including ideation, vendor sourcing, and coordination with internal stakeholders to ensure relevance and alignment.
  • Coordinate campaign activities by liaising with store managers/agency and scheduling trade events to ensure smooth operations.
  • Provide support in copywriting and translation of assets/information between English and Chinese.
  • Maintain and enhance marketing file management, including distribution, assortment, pricing, and translation documentation.

Digital

  • Support Digital team in coordinating with agency for development of assets for e-Commerce content / PDP / shop-in-shop product information.

Reporting

  • Prepare competitor reports for internal communication and assist with monthly sales report submissions
  • Assist in monthly sales reports data collection.
  • Support internal cross-functional communication through regular reports.

Administrative Support

  • Assist the team on vendor creation, PO raising, quotation & invoice tracking
  • Track weekly key product performance and monitor competitor activities for offline and online on Chinese social media such as Weibo, RED, WeChat.
  • Compile post-event /post-launch reports for monitoring of ROI for each activity.
  • Handle ad-hoc requests and facilitate communication between teams in Singapore and overseas offices.

SKILLS & REQUIREMENTS

  • Undergraduate or Postgraduate majoring in Marketing, Business Administration or equivalent.
  • Passionate or have interest in the beauty industry
  • Effective communication skills (verbal & written).
  • Proficient with Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint.
  • Positive, enthusiastic and collaborative can-do mentality.
  • Have strong project management skills/ Able to multi-task effectively, managing multiple projects while being cognizant of deadlines and priorities.
  • Comfortable with numbers and analysis of data.
  • Meticulous and attention to detail.
  • Strong command of the Chinese language is a bonus.

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