Events Operations Apprentice

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As the Events & Brand experience team, we design and execute Back Market’s most creative campaigns and physical activations across the globe. From large-scale events like BackForum to limited-budget campaigns, we bring Back Market’s voice to life both offline and online.

To support this mission, we’re looking for an Events Operations Apprentice to join our fast-paced team.

🎯 1. Event Production & Operations

• Assist in organizing external events from A to Z: planning, briefing, logistics, budget tracking, and execution.

• Be the go-to support for “run” tasks, sourcing, and project troubleshooting.

• Contribute to creating post-event reports, wrap-ups, and learnings.

🎁 2. Low-Budget Productions

• Help produce brand content and goodies in-house with limited resources (without agency support).

• Handle shipping logistics, coordination, and production tasks (examples: influencers' events at the Future Club, small productions of PR dinners in Paris…)

• A team player, curious and adaptable, with a strong sense of initiative.

• Highly organized and detail-oriented.

• Passionate about events, branding, and creative culture.

• Comfortable working in both French & English (written and spoken).

• Ready to juggle multiple tasks and prioritize in a fast-paced, international environment.

• Bonus point if you already had an international experience, and/or if you have already completed an internship/work-study program in event management, or as a production assistant.

• Starting date: January 2027

• Duration: Ideally for 12 months (24 months to be discussed).

• Location: Paris, France

• Contract: You must already be enrolled in a work-study program in a French school (contrat d'alternance / d'apprentissage)

1. Technical Interview with the manager (45 mins)

2. Cultural fit interview With a member of the team (30 min)

3. Case study (Home assignement/Case preparation)

4. Video-call Interview with the Talent Acquisition Specialist (30min)

At Back Market, we’re committed to hiring and supporting diverse teams of people from all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — it’s one of the reasons we’re such a high-scoring certified B Corp company (93.2).

No matter your role and seniority level, you’ll enjoy impact-driven work with hands-on career development in an innovative, driven, and fast-paced environment — with benefits to match, like:

- A mission driven work environment where your day to day makes an impact on the planet. Seriously.

- Hybrid work environment, with 2 remote days a week and 1 remote work week per quarter, plus 3 flex days.

- Employee Resource Groups, including mentorship programs, comprehensive accessibility policies, and cultural competency training.

At Back Market, we strive to create a workplace that embodies the world we’re trying to change. We’ve embedded our diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into our DNA — from dedicated staff to employee resource groups to our company values.

We know that the perfect background for a role doesn’t mean the perfect fit — we encourage you to apply for a role even if you think you may not have all the qualifications.

If reasonable accommodations are needed for the interview process, please do not hesitate to discuss this with the Talent Acquisition Team.