Marketing Intern, Retail Insights & Analytics

Job Description

About the job

Title: Marketing Intern, Retail Insights & Analytics

Location: Naperville, IL

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

Participate in a paid internship program built around your career goals and hands-on projects that impact the organization. As part of the Lamb Weston University Recruiting Internship Program, Interns work towards completing a Capstone project and are assigned a mentor who will guide and evaluate performance.

Whether you are interested in Agricultural Science, Data Science, Finance, Supply Chain, IT, Manufacturing, Food Science, Marketing, or Engineering, our highly selective summer intern program has projects that will help you build the next stage in your career.

> Paid internship: May – August (actual dates may vary)

> Gain real-world working experience through dynamic projects assigned by your mentor and assigned department

> Network and learn from executives, department leaders, high performers, and fellow interns across the business

> Receive guidance and feedback from your assigned mentor throughout the program

> Professional development events providing tools that will help after the internship and after graduation

Job Description

The Marketing Internship program will allow you to develop your insight, data storytelling, and strategic thinking skills. You will be exposed to our senior management along with the opportunity to learn more about the businesses within Lamb Weston.

In the role of Marketing Intern, Retail Insights & Analytics, you will be developing Lamb Weston’s Retail Shopper Insights Library and support Retail Innovation with new consumer research and data. You will be cultivating and curating primary, proprietary and secondary research and data to support the way our marketing, innovation, and sales teams think, create, and sell to specific retail consumers (e.g. dollar store buyers, club store buyers, etc.) and retail customers (e.g. Walmart, Meijer, Albertsons, etc.). In addition, you will support exploratory consumer research in the retail packaging innovation space.

The Marketing Intern, Retail Insights & Analytics role will provide the intern with real-world business experience through project management of consumer research (beginning to end with insights synthesis), strategic thinking regarding business goals, using data and research to add value to projects, data storytelling, presentation skills and more.

Responsibilities

Individual intern projects will be assigned, and a final presentation made at the conclusion of the internship. Some examples of projects and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Gather, interpret, and leverage insight data related to industry, category, customer, consumer, and internal business to support our retail initiatives
• Establish relationships with consumer research partners
• Develop proprietary research studies to learn more about retail shoppers behaviors, attitudes, usage, and purchasing behaviors with our existing brands and licensed brands
• Analyze, interpret, and display the data to create compelling and actionable stories to our internal and external audiences.
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Must be a current Junior, Senior, or Master’s student enrolled in a related program: Marketing, Business, International Business, Psychology, Anthropology, or related field
• Minimum GPA 3.0 preferred
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Ability to work as part of a team and independently
• Strong attention to detail
• Strong organizational skills
• Microsoft Office knowledge – advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint required
• Data Management, analysis, and synthesis skills is a plus
• Data visualization and design skills preferred
• Foreign language skills is a plus
  

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits – Medical, Dental, Vision
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
• Paid Time Off
• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
• Family-Friendly Employee events
• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services
  

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.