Summer Intern: Marketing - MBA

Pepsi Co Marketing Internship

At Pepsi Co, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities.

At the heart of Pepsi Co are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, Pepsi Co offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next.

Pepsi Co's marketing internship is a chance to spend a summer tackling business challenges alongside experienced marketers in one of our three U.S. headquarter locations:
Chicago, IL (Pepsi Co Foods & Gatorade);
Purchase, NY (Pepsi Beverages); and Plano, TX (Pepsi Co Foods). We rely on interns for fresh perspective, and in turn we let them showcase their ability to provide a meaningful, comprehensive business recommendation. As interns fact-find and problem-solve to reach a recommendation, they enjoy great autonomy as well as full support, guidance, and feedback from their managers, cross-functional partners, and the broad marketing organization.

Interns have the chance to learn the business, build a network, and, potentially, earn a full-time opportunity upon graduation.

As a Marketing Intern you will be given significant responsibility to create high impact marketing recommendations that enable Pepsi Co to achieve short and long-term strategic business objectives. In addition to core project work, you will develop and demonstrate functional ownership, leadership capability, creative thinking, analytical thinking, consumer empathy and business acumen. The internship also provides exposure to best-in-class brands, campaigns, and marketers by means of professional development initiatives and mentorship.

Summer assignments may include:

• Developing overall strategy for a brand, including commercialization in-store and online ideas to meet long-term business goals (total sales, distribution, household penetration, profits)
• Leveraging consumer insights to understand problems to solve and to be the voice in product, packaging, and/or communication development
• Building new product innovation concepts and developing new product launch strategies
• Developing impactful consumer promotions, events, and marketing programs
• Leveraging insights to design social and digital campaigns, along with creative measurement tactics
• Partnering with agencies in the creation of brand positioning and communication strategies
• Using data to understand category and competitive dynamics to guide strategy and recommendations for future business opportunities

We believe internships are critical to nurturing top talent for our future, so we make them meaningful. Here is some of the experience you can expect to gain:

• 10-weeks of marketing experience on a core marketing function including but not limited to brand, innovation, shopper marketing, sports marketing, and more
• Assigned buddy
• Intern networking events, we hope you will leave with lasting relationships!
• Executive leadership exposure
• Competitive pay
• Insight into the many tracks your career can take as a marketer at Pepsi Co including General Management, CMO, and beyond

What we're looking for:

• Currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration degree
• 3+ years of related work experience
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Highly focused, analytical thinkers
• Cross-functional collaborators with strong communication and influence skills
• Proven people/project leadership throughout your career (academic or professional)
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
• Demon…