Job Description

**Join Jack Link's as a Trade & Customer Planning Intern during the summer of 2024 **in downtown Minneapolis, MN! As an intern on our sales team, you will be responsible for working with the Director & Trade Strategy in developing and executing the strategic sales business plan to realize improved gross revenue, net revenue, and operating income. Work with Field Sales to identify and implement profit positive business growth opportunities.

Essential Job Responsibilities

Utilize syndicated data and internal metrics (revenue, spend, ROI) to evaluate and select customer-specific trade rates and slotting approvals with minimal risks.

• Review customer promotional spending plans in MEI for effectiveness, efficiency, and compliance with guidelines and budgets
• Identify specific examples of trade spending effectiveness best practices and share across the Retail Sales team
• Create and deploy tools to track trade spending budgets, while identifying areas to enhance efficiency
• Assist the Director on all major MAPS initiatives (annual planning, core void identification and closure, new item launches budget reconciliation, and customer specific growth projects
  • Assist in the development of the strategic sales and trade plans. Conduct pre- and post-promotional analysis for key accounts and across channel archetypes
  • Develop promo event-level guidelines
  • Work with Sales to develop ROI-informed promotional calendars/plans
  • Maintain promo effectiveness scorecards
  • Develop quarterly promo effectiveness reviews
  • Run analytics to understand effectiveness of trade terms (e.g., incremental margin or growth per dollar invested in a given account) and make recommended changes
  • Partner with Trade Strategy team to develop, implement, and manage trade spend architecture by channel
  • Partner with Sales & Marketing to develop customer sell-in stories when needed

Qualifications

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in Sales & Marketing / Business Admin.
• Ability to work well under pressure with strong ability to multi-task.
• Highly detailed with strong organizational and operating skills.
• Proficient computer knowledge: Microsoft Office, Work, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Power Bi.
• Communications skills- writing and communication skills, and be able to interact and persuade individuals levels senior to him or her, as well as actively participate in meetings and group discussions with individuals from various parts of the organization (e.g. Marketing, Sales, Finance)

Additional Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT :
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant / office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet / slippery floors. Travel may be required.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:
Jack Link’s provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state or local law.

E-VERIFY:
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.