at PepsiCo Corp in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
2025 Summer Intern: Category Management Insights Intern - Undergrad
PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to leaders on the frontline, we’re excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.
Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you’re invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products—which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.
A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone’s invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you’re from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you’ll have the opportunity learn, develop, and grow our unique skill sets at work. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact.
Join us. Dare for Better.
Responsibilities
Functional Description:
You will join a team build on collaboration and working cross-functionally. You should be familiar with fundamental research methodologies, tools, and techniques and we will help you apply these to answer key business questions. The internship will be centered on a project crucial to the business and require you to turn research insights and data into a clear story that inspires action. Empathy for the shopper, their daily lives, and various activities that impact them will also be discovered in this role. Locations will vary and are determined closer to the internship start date.
Responsibilities may include:
- Collaborate with our Strategy, Category Managers, Brand Insights, and Marketing teams to understand their key objectives
- Address key business issues or strategic opportunities (shopper focused)
- Synthesize data and insights across multiple sources
- Work with research vendors to create surveys, field research, and analyze results
What you can expect:
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:
Assigned mentor/buddy
- Intern networking events, we hope you will leave with lasting relationships!
- Executive leadership exposure
Compensation & Benefits:
- The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2025 campus intern openings is $20.50 - $39.60/hour
- Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions
- Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable
- We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full time positions have a comprehensive benefits package that include:
- Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
Qualifications
What we’re looking for:
- Currently pursuing a degree in: Marketing, Business Administration, or other Business-related majors (other majors may be considered)
- Prior knowledge and/or experience with a consumer-packaged goods corporation is preferred
- Ideal candidates demonstrate strong collaborative, analytical, data management and mining skills
- Exemplary communication, analytical thinker, and leadership skills
- Self-starter with an entrepreneurial mindset
- Proven leadership capabilities
Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:
- This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
- Graduate with degree within one (1) year of internship completion. Graduation date between December 2025 and May 2026.
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.
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