Kent Companies 2025 Marketing Internship

Summary
Join us, and you’ll gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, high-impact environment where branding meets strategy. You’ll collaborate with creative vendors, internal stakeholders, and leadership to support marketing initiatives across Kent’s five sub-brands. From content creation and social media to event planning and collateral development, you’ll play a key role in strengthening our brand. This internship is ideal for a self-starter who thrives in a dynamic setting, enjoys creative problem-solving, and wants to see marketing in action at a national level.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop creative and technical writing for customer resources, internal communications, blog posts, and sales collateral.
• Create and cultivate content for social media, website, and e-newsletter.
• Assist in designing and developing corporate collateral including print, digital, presentations, and ads.
• Produce new concepts, develop marketing materials, provide inspiration and creative input across all media channels (print, digital, social, etc.)
• Support internal event planning and execution.
• Manage external sponsorships and event registration.
• Provide administrative support to preconstruction team members.
• Communicate regularly with various creative vendors.

Required Experience, Education, and Qualifications

• 2-3 years of college education, with a concentration in marketing, writing, communications, business, or English.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite (Illustrator and InDesign, specifically)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• General understanding of marketing functions and how they support sales/business development.
• Superior attention to detail.
• General knowledge of various marketing channels (social media, email marketing)
• Must have reliable transportation to the workplace(s)/ job location(s).
• Ability to pass drug screening.
• Must be able to work in the United States without corporate sponsorship now and in the future.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Graduating senior
• Construction Industry experience
• Graphic design/agency experience
• Marketing-related certifications
• SEO experience
• Fluent in Spanish

Work Environment/Physical Demand
This position works in an office environment but occasionally travels to job sites as required. It requires long periods of sitting.

Position type, travel, and expected hours of work
This is a 12-week internship. Internship start and end dates will be determined based on the collegiate academic calendar. The internship will meet or exceed all associated internship requirements. Travel to job sites may occur occasionally. Typical hours will range from 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.

Office Location
130 60th Street SW, Grand Rapids, MI 49548

About Kent Companies
Kent Companies is a full-service concrete contractor with expertise in commercial and industrial concrete construction, mixed-use construction, multi-family housing, and a full range of concrete-related specialties. Every Kent Companies project is marked by our four distinctive Hallmarks of Service: Safety, Productivity, Quality, and Customer Service. We believe in providing challenging work, opportunities for professional development, and industry-leading compensation packages. And it’s all wrapped in a culture built on values and integrity. We deliver on our promises.

About Kent Companies’ Marketing Department
We are a fast-paced, rapidly growing organization, and the marketing department works hand-in-hand to ensure our brand equity is equally distributed and recognized among all our business units. Interested applicants will learn how to support multiple internal strategic initiatives while keeping the wheels turning for our sales team. We are Kent's brand creators and defenders, which is a challenging and exciting position to maintain.

Why join our Marketing Department?
Kent’s marketing team is sharp, agile, and driven. We are brand defenders, ensuring consistency and impact across every touchpoint. Our work spans nearly every business corner, from internal communications to customer engagement and digital presence to on-the-ground brand activation. In 2025, our intern will gain firsthand experience working in our established system—refining, strengthening, and evolving our brand in real time. You'll collaborate with internal stakeholders, leadership, and creative vendors to develop marketing that moves the needle in a fast-paced, national construction environment.

Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.

EEO Statement
At Kent Companies, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce, and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. Kent Companies does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices and personnel actions, including but not limited to hiring, recruiting, promotions, performance evaluations, termination, and compensation decisions.

The Company will strive to ensure that all employees and prospective employees will be treated equally in regard to recruitment, employment, promotions, demotions, discipline, termination, access to benefits and training, leaves of absence, and layoffs. The Company will further ensure that its management staff is aware of the Company’s commitment to this policy and each member understands their individual role in the process of administering this plan.

Kent Companies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.