Edenred - Strategy intern

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 roughly 900,000 corporate clients. Edenred offers   specific-purpose payment solutions for food (such as meal benefits), incentives (such as gift cards, employee engagement platforms), mobility (such as multi-energy, maintenance, toll, parking and commuter solutions) 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, and vitalize the employment market and the local economy. They also foster access to healthier food, more environmentally friendly products and softer mobility.

Edenred’s 10,000 employees are committed to making the world of work a connected ecosystem that is safer, more efficient and more responsible every day. In 2021, thanks to its global technology assets, the Group managed close to €30 billion in business volume, primarily carried out via mobile applications, online platforms and cards. Edenred is listed on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and included in the following indices: CACNext 20, CAC Large 60, Euronext 100, FTSE4Good 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 Employee Benefits Business.

Line accounting for 70% of Edenred Group results with geographical presence in:

• EMEA (21 countries, incl. 19 countries in Europe) structured around 5 regions: France, Italy, NOE (Northern Europe), CEE (Central Eastern Europe) and SEMEA (Southern Europe, Middle East and Africa)
• Americas (7 countries) structured around 2 regions: Brazil and HA (Hispanic America))

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

MISSIONS

The missions of the Strategy Intern are:

• Strategy
• Support Employee Benefits Strategic Plan elaboration (3-year plan)
• Contribute to Capital Markets Day preparation (strategic presentation to Edenred investors)
• 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