Sales Internship Store Brands

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day.  At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis American Group, we are dedicated to building a 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. 

From your PASSION to ours

This is a 12-month paid internship opportunity, full or part-time with a minimum of twenty hours per week. 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).  This internship will serve as an interim position with the potential to move full-time after one year. This position will work with all necessary cross-functional teams internally. 

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

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. 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.