Land O'Lakes
Marketing Brand Management MBA Intern
Land O'Lakes, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, 55130
Marketing Brand Management MBA Intern
Join Land O'Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to fork, building vibrant communities along the way. We're a global, Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative, which means we work for one another-not Wall Street. Land O'Lakes operates some of the most respected brands in agribusiness and food production including LAND O LAKES® Dairy Foods, Vermont Creamery, Purina® Animal Nutrition, WinField United® Crop Inputs, and TruterraTM Sustainability.
As an intern, you will be joining a team tasked with solving some of the most important issues in the world today, by bringing innovation, creativity, and a problem-solver mindset.
The internship will be based in Arden Hills, MN and takes place for approximately 10 weeks (June - August 2025). Relocation assistance provided.
As a summer intern you will be provided hands on experience across various aspects of our Dairy Foods or Enterprise Marketing teams.
Dairy Foods:
National dairy brand with high brand recognition across key dairy product categories plus Kozy Shack® refrigerated desserts and Vermont Creamery specialty dairy. Interns will join a retail, foodservice, or ingredients business team.Enterprise Marketing:
Drives growth through brand and marketing strategy, activation, and communication across the Land O'Lakes enterprise. Interns will be part of a project team that supports Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition, Truterra, and/or the Land O'Lakes Enterprise.During your summer internship you will be given real world, business critical projects that will test your ability to think strategically, glean insights from data, and deliver a recommendation to our business leadership. Some potential projects may include market opportunity assessments, consumer and customer insights, marketing mix strategies, pricing, distribution, promotions, trade strategies, competitive analysis, new product or packaging development, brand strategy, or social strategy activation. This internship is a pipeline for our full-time Associate Marketing Manager Rotational Program in Dairy Foods.
Competencies-Skills (Required):
Must be a motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as in a high teaming environment.Must have strong analytical skills, be results oriented.Demonstrate strong strategic thinking.Possess excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.Required Education:
A current first year MBA student with an expected graduation date of Spring or Summer 2026Preferred Qualifications:
Strong interest in brand management, general management, and/or marketing focus preferredSome experience in consumer-packaged goods, food, or agricultural industries a plusApplication Instructions:
Cover letter is
required
when submitting application.Applications will be reviewed in early January 2025. Due to the number of applicants, communication will be limited to those candidates who are advancing in the evaluation process.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
Join Land O'Lakes, Inc., and help us bring food from farmer to fork, building vibrant communities along the way. We're a global, Fortune 250 company and a farmer-owned cooperative, which means we work for one another-not Wall Street. Land O'Lakes operates some of the most respected brands in agribusiness and food production including LAND O LAKES® Dairy Foods, Vermont Creamery, Purina® Animal Nutrition, WinField United® Crop Inputs, and TruterraTM Sustainability.
As an intern, you will be joining a team tasked with solving some of the most important issues in the world today, by bringing innovation, creativity, and a problem-solver mindset.
The internship will be based in Arden Hills, MN and takes place for approximately 10 weeks (June - August 2025). Relocation assistance provided.
As a summer intern you will be provided hands on experience across various aspects of our Dairy Foods or Enterprise Marketing teams.
Dairy Foods:
National dairy brand with high brand recognition across key dairy product categories plus Kozy Shack® refrigerated desserts and Vermont Creamery specialty dairy. Interns will join a retail, foodservice, or ingredients business team.Enterprise Marketing:
Drives growth through brand and marketing strategy, activation, and communication across the Land O'Lakes enterprise. Interns will be part of a project team that supports Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition, Truterra, and/or the Land O'Lakes Enterprise.During your summer internship you will be given real world, business critical projects that will test your ability to think strategically, glean insights from data, and deliver a recommendation to our business leadership. Some potential projects may include market opportunity assessments, consumer and customer insights, marketing mix strategies, pricing, distribution, promotions, trade strategies, competitive analysis, new product or packaging development, brand strategy, or social strategy activation. This internship is a pipeline for our full-time Associate Marketing Manager Rotational Program in Dairy Foods.
Competencies-Skills (Required):
Must be a motivated self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as in a high teaming environment.Must have strong analytical skills, be results oriented.Demonstrate strong strategic thinking.Possess excellent interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills.Required Education:
A current first year MBA student with an expected graduation date of Spring or Summer 2026Preferred Qualifications:
Strong interest in brand management, general management, and/or marketing focus preferredSome experience in consumer-packaged goods, food, or agricultural industries a plusApplication Instructions:
Cover letter is
required
when submitting application.Applications will be reviewed in early January 2025. Due to the number of applicants, communication will be limited to those candidates who are advancing in the evaluation process.
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.