Portfolio Internship - Marketing & Partnerships

PE Portfolio Internship - Marketing & Partnerships

Compass Box Whisky – a Caelum Capital portfolio company

Location: U.S. (remote + travel to CA, NY/NJ, FL, IL or TX as projects demand)
Timing / Load: June 2025 – Nov 2025 • ~20 hrs per week (built around class schedules)
Compensation: monthly stipend plus an uncapped, results-based bonus

About Compass Box

Compass Box is the most-awarded independent Scotch house on the planet and was recently ranked the #2 “Most Admired” blended Scotch worldwide. The brand earned 3 billion media impressions last year and is now funded by Caelum Capital to scale significantly. Partnerships are the growth engine, and you’ll be the operator who makes them real. 

About Caelum Capital

Cælum Capital is a London-based specialist private equity firm focused on investing in premium beverage businesses across North America and Europe. Our Managing Partner, Manish Rungta (INSEAD alum), and our Operating Partner, Mark Eames (ex-SABMiller), bring deep investment and operational experience in the sector.

Our investment model emphasizes control investments with individual fund structures backed by leading U.S. institutional investors. Our portfolio includes Compass Box Whisky, an award-winning super-premium Scotch whisky brand based in London.

What you will do

Your Focus

Impact

Find & sign partners in food, music, tech, art and lifestyle who ‘influence the many’ in our five U.S. focus states

Put high-affinity brands and tastemakers on-brief, on-budget and under contract

Design activations across the 4-tier partnership model—Strategic, Collaboration, Tactical, Commercial

Turn concepts into launch calendars, channel plans and P&L projections

Execute launches—brief creative, align distributors, oversee retail/on-prem displays, secure earned media

Ship flawless roll-outs that move product today, build brand tomorrow

Measure & iterate—build dashboards, track lift in awareness, velocity and ROI; present weekly to ELT & Board

What works scales; what doesn’t, you pivot fast

The candidate we want

• Current MBA (’26)
• 3-6 yrs pre-MBA in U.S. consumer-goods or luxury marketing with hands-on deal/activation ownership
• Equal parts analyst and storyteller—comfortable modelling ROI in Excel and pitching a C-suite partner
• Bias for action; thrive in resource-light, “figure-it-out” environments
• U.S. work authorisation & ~20 % domestic travel

What you’ll take away

• Board-level visibility and mentorship from the U.S. President, Head of Marketing and Global CEO
• A live, revenue-linked case study that proves you can translate slides into shelf velocity
• A bonus tied directly to incremental cases sold—your ceiling is the upside you create