2024 Summer Intern: eCommerce Sales & Marketing - MBA

Job description

Overview

We are PepsiCo

PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to leaders on the frontline, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.

 

Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.

 

A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop, and grow our unique skill sets at work. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact.

 

 

Functional Description:

PepsiCo’s marketing & sales internship is a chance to spend a summer tackling business challenge alongside experienced marketers and sales leaders in one of our two U.S. headquarter locations: New York, NY (Pepsi Beverages); and Plano, TX (Frito-Lay). We rely on interns for fresh perspective, and in turn we let them showcase their ability to provide a meaningful, comprehensive business recommendation. As interns fact-find and problem-solve to reach a recommendation, they enjoy great autonomy as well as full support, guidance, and feedback from their managers, cross-functional partners, and the broad marketing organization. Interns have the chance to learn the business, build a network, and, potentially, earn a full-time opportunity upon graduation.

Responsibilities

What you can expect:

An eCommerce intern at PepsiCo will provide analytical support to senior managers in the development of various sales-driving initiatives and assist PepsiCo in achieving their short and long-term business strategy. The position requires significant interaction with various functions on the eCommerce team including sales, marketing, finance, strategy and supply chain to help bring the project to life. This position requires a highly quantitative skill set and comfort with analyzing data to develop detailed and thought-provoking strategic analyses and recommendations. To accomplish this, sales interns will be required to use several databases and scanner data systems, and marketing interns will use insights and retail media data to build their strategies and recommendations

 

Summer assignments may include:

·  Developing overall strategy for a brand, including commercialization in-store and online ideas to meet long-term business goals (total sales, distribution, household penetration, profits)
·  Leveraging consumer insights to understand problems to solve and to be the voice in product, packaging, and/or communication development
·  Building new product innovation concepts and developing new product launch strategies
·  Developing impactful consumer promotions, events, and marketing programs
·  Leveraging insights to design social and digital campaigns, along with creative measurement tactics
·  Partnering with brand organizations in the creation of brand positioning and communication strategies
·  Using data to understand category and competitive dynamics to guide strategy and recommendations for future business opportunities

The Summer Experience:

·  We believe internships are critical to nurturing top talent for our future, so we make them meaningful. Here is some of the experience you can expect to gain:
·  10-weeks of marketing & sales experience on a core eCommerce sales or marketing function
·  Assigned mentor/buddy
·  Intern networking events, we hope you will leave with lasting relationships!
·  Executive leadership exposure
·  Competitive pay
·  Insight into the many tracks your career can take as a marketer at PepsiCo including General Management, CMO, and beyond!
Qualifications

What we’re looking for:

·  Currently pursuing a Master of Business Administration degree
·  3+ years of related work experience
·  Highly motivated self-starter
·  Highly focused, analytical thinkers
·  Cross-functional collaborators with strong communication and influence skills
·  Proven people/project leadership throughout your career (academic or professional)
·  Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
·  Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
·  Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills
·  Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
·  Prior knowledge and/or experience with a consumer-packaged goods corporation is preferred
·  Experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, operations, supply chain, or consulting is preferred

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:

·  Graduate with MBA degree within one (1) year of internship completion (Dec 2024 or May 2025
·  2-5 years of work experience
·  Ability to be in one of the below areas:
·  Dallas, TX
·  New York, NY
·  This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States
EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

 

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

 

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available  EEO is the Law  &  EEO is the Law Supplement  documents. View  PepsiCo EEO Policy .

 

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