Business Development / Corporate Communications Intern

Job Description

Job Description

Launch your career in pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing with Fingerpaint Group's Paint the Way Program. This unique internship experience is designed to integrate you deeply into our teams, delivering real-world impact. This dynamic program offers rising participants an opportunity to contribute meaningfully to client solutions through hands-on and direct team involvement.

As a Paint the Way intern, you'll collaborate directly with industry experts, gaining invaluable practical knowledge while contributing to active client projects. We believe in empowering our interns; your ideas and unique perspective will be valued as an integral part of the team.

This paid opportunity is open to rising seniors and above, recent graduates, veterans, and those seeking a career change.

• Duration :  10 weeks, 30 hours per week

Schedule :  June 9th - August 15th

Location :  Primarily remote, with occasional travel required to our Cedar Knolls, NJ office for purposeful engagement. Candidates should be within driving distance of the Cedar Knolls, New Jersey Office

Productive business development and corporate communications is the lifeblood of any company. The Business Development (BD) team, part of the larger Corporate Communications team, is responsible for supporting growth efforts across the enterprise and creating operational efficiencies wherever possible. The BD team supports all types of revenue generation efforts including prospecting, supporting RFI / RFP submissions, facilitating cross-introductions, and nurturing client procurement relationships. The Corporate Communications team is responsible for ensuring that Fingerpaint has a compelling and differentiating story and marketing materials to target potential clients, current clients, industry, employees, potential employees, and community. Corporate communications can be further bucketed into thought leadership or promotion. Corporate communication materials include social media, promotion, websites, sell sheets, pitch materials, thought leadership, and more.

Duties and Responsibilities :

Reporting to the Analyst of Business Development and the Sr. Associate of Corporate Communications, the BD & Corp Comms intern works together with all members of the larger Corporate Communications team with the intention of providing exceptional support for all current and planned initiatives :

Capture and manage all prospect, account, and deal activity in HubSpot

Support the facilitation of weekly pipeline reports to Fingerpaint Group leadership

Work directly with our Analyst, Business Development on legacy processes, business systems, and our ways of working

Work directly with the Sr. Associate, Corporate Communications on social media development and support thought leadership initiatives

Continually strive to capture new content in our Business Development Toolbox and RFI / RFP Repository.

Manage and organize the Experience Library and respond to new experience requests–extracting relevant data from the Experience Library and share with the requesting team via PowerPoint or Excel.

Update company intranet homepage with latest business updates including upcoming pitches and recent wins.

Spearhead developing and deploying our weekly internal newsletter, “The Pulse”

Preferred Requirements :

Marketing or advertising agency experience and / or pharmaceutical experience.

Preferred Qualifications :

Bachelor’s degree in marketing / communications, advertising, or business administration

Ability to work independently to set and manage priorities, resources, goals, and project initiatives

Strategic thinker with strong business acumen

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrates commitment to fostering a team environment

Ability to prioritize work and be able to pivot focus as needed

Experience in pharmaceutical drug lifecycle and / or healthcare is a plus

Knowledge of or experience working in a CRM is a plus