What are the responsibilities and job description for the Innovation Marketing Intern position at Lactalis USA?
Description
Lactalis American Group is currently seeking candidates to join our Marketing team in New York City.
Lactalis, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to nurturing the future by providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. We produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day. We offer an enviable range of dairy brands including Galbani, President, Kraft Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond, Parmalat, Siggi's, and Stonyfield Organic in addition to several brands imported from our affiliates in Europe.
At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to building a safe, diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.
Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.
From your PASSION to ours
This is a paid internship. This is a 12-month paid internship opportunity, full or part-time with a minimum of twenty hours per week, where the Marketing Intern will be responsible for assisting the Senior Marketing Manager with consumer product line management including analysis of industry data, consumer promotion development and product innovation.
Requirements
From your EXPERTISE to ours
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Key responsibilities for this position include:
* Develop, maintain and promote sales efforts by creating the corresponding sales material such as Point of Sale (P.O.S), power point presentations, and industry data.
* Create/update packaging designs based on new product launch or modifications to current items.
* Conduct market research and analyze industry data.
* Communicate results effectively and maintain a disciplined approach to activity and attitude.
* Work with other departments to achieve overall company objectives when needed.
* Provide support and manage innovation projects, and accomplish tasks as appropriately assigned or requested.
* Share and promote best-practices throughout the organization.
* Behave in a professional manner that always represents the Company in the highest ethical standard.
* Responsible for maintaining a clean and safe working environment.
* This description reflects management's assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned
From your STORY to ours
Qualified applicants will contribute the following:
Education & Experience
* Candidate will possess or be pursuing a BA or MBA, with a specialization in marketing preferred
* Ideal candidate will have the following traits: open-mindedness, capacity or understand/analyze data and make
fact-based recommendations, creativity, productivity, strong organizational skills and ability to work independently as well as in teams.
* Some practical experience through educational projects, prior internships, or professional experiences desired.
Skills / Abilities
* Strong analytical skills: need to be proficient in Excel and analysis in general.
* Concern for accuracy- must be very detail oriented.
* Open-minded, capacity to understand/analyze/ react.
* Strong communication, organizational skills, teamwork ability: must be able to multi-task and coordinate activities between several departments.
* Proactivity: proactive in tasks and meeting deadlines.
* Significant knowledge of current software systems including Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel.
* Interest in learning about all aspects of consumer-packaged goods marketing and product development.
