2025 Summer Brand Management Internship
Ready to shape the future of food?
Join Butterball, America’s favorite turkey brand, for an exciting summer internship! Butterball, LLC, is one of America’s most iconic brands and the most loved and trusted brand of turkey in the United States. Known for helping consumers celebrate Thanksgiving, Butterball also brings delicious turkey products to tables around the world every day. Located in the thriving Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area, our business model gives us the opportunity to provide a diverse array of career opportunities and paths which include live operations, processing facilities, corporate functions and support offices. At Butterball, we aim to provide great-tasting foods that bring people together and inspire meaningful moments with the people who matter most.
Jump start your career with Butterball! The Brand Management & Innovation Intern is meant to provide an encompassing experience through a variety of projects that support our business within the Marketing function. You will work with the Brand Management and Innovation teams to provide project management needs supporting a variety of marketing projects. This role supports the brand’s major product and brand marketing initiatives and provides a great hands-on learning experience of marketing fundamentals.
This internship will be located mainly in the Garner, NC headquarters, with a hybrid in-office work schedule.
The program’s primary objective is to grow future leaders by providing professional development and a series of assignments that aligns with professional interest within the processing and manufacturing industry.
What you’ll do:
Project management and coordination, including executional tasks for both teams including coordination of cross-functional developmental team meetings, creation of meeting recaps with definitions of critical next steps and timeline development.
Collaborate to create, execute and analyze results of consumer research projects ranging from category opportunity analysis to consumer taste panels.
Analysis of syndicated data to identify category business threats and opportunities, presenting to brand and innovation leadership.
Sales and business support activities like the development of selling stories and hype sheets for key initiatives.
Participate in the development of consumer marketing communications programs to drive the base business and launch innovations including collaboration with the Integrated Marketing Communications team and our agency partners.
Support processing of marketing investments with vendors and the upkeep of marketing budgets.
What you’ll get:
Professional development
Access to senior leadership
Networking opportunities
Sponsored events outside of work
We're looking for awesome students like you!
Do you have a knack for problem-solving and a passion for food? We're looking for creative minds who can help us make our food production process even better. You'll need to be a team player, ready to roll up your sleeves and get things done. Think you have what it takes to make a delicious difference? Additional eligibility requirements:
Currently seeking MBA or other marketing master’s degree program student for long-term internship (multiple semesters)
Professional, self-motivated and able to work independently or with a group
General understanding of the marketing function, ideally brand development, product management and new product innovation
Excellence in working with a cross-functional team and building highly effective relationships with key stakeholders
Eye for details and an ability to work constructively with cross-functional teams
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation building
Superior project management and coordination capabilities--must be able to keep organized and drive timelines
Are you up for the challenge? Apply Now!