Private Label Marketing Intern

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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. 

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis American Group, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Private Label Marketing Intern based in Buffalo, New York. This is a 12-month paid internship opportunity, full or part-time with a minimum of twenty hours per week, where the Store Brands intern with focus on three areas; customer portals, managing the artwork and packaging process and bid data collection/system entry not including pricing. 

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Customer Portal Management – all aspects of maintenance of customer portals which includes working with internal cross-functional teams to collect the necessary information/data to populate customer portals. See attached current portal spreadsheet for all customers and their respective portals.
• Examples: company information for finished good resource spec setup, packaging and sustainability data/ surveys, current documentation, and artwork review 
• These portals and systems are also used for customer bids. This is broader information collection and input. All customer requests are from very basic company/plant contact information to very detailed information as stated above. 
• Artwork and Packaging Process – (See detailed Store Brands Process Guide) This person will have specific responsibilities within this process.
• Bids – Every bid uses a portal or customer driven system and has an initial setup and data collection process. Once that is complete a final bid entry is completed and entered. This person will work with internal cross-functional teams to collect this information, review with the supervisor and enter. 

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.

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. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.