Private Label Marketing Intern

Lactalis USA is currently seeking candidates to join our Store Brands team in Buffalo, NY.

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 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 12-month paid internship opportunity, available on a full- or part-time basis with a minimum of twenty hours per week. The Store Brands intern will focus on three areas: customer portals, managing the artwork and packaging process, and bid data collection/system entry, excluding pricing. This role serves as an interim position with the potential to transition to a full-time role after one year. The position will collaborate with all necessary cross-functional teams internally.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Supports specific private label product lines by managing product development process and timeline execution with retailers.
• Works closely with cross-functional teams (Sales, QA, Graphics, Purchasing, etc.) to meet project objectives and execute all customer requests related to, but not limited to, product launch and packaging modifications.
• Manages collection of all necessary data/ information to complete RFQs and new item set-up processes within various customer databases and maintains based on customers' needs.
• Assists in the graphic development process by serving as the primary liaison between internal teams and customers' Own Brand teams on regulatory & printer requirements for their retail packaging.
• Assists senior management in utilizing internal systems and IRI market insights platform to perform data analysis and track private label business performance.
• Must proactively and effectively communicate with retailers, third-party agencies, and internal teams to ensure all stakeholder objectives are met.

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• Candidate will possess or be pursuing a BA or MBA

Experience

• 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.