We are hiring Marketing Interns to utilize the skills and knowledge learned in the classroom to help contribute to the portfolio management, product design, and launch of our new and existing product lines. This role will be engaged in innovative projects throughout the course of the internship touching various areas of our business.
This is a year-round internship role that is predominantly in-person and based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and requires the intern to work part-time (15-20 hours per week) during the school year and full-time (40 hours) during the summer months.
What You Will Be Doing:
You will be supporting and collaborating within a dynamic global marketing team. This may include identifying new global business opportunities and discovering new ways of offering our solutions to an established market. Your energy and disruptive thinking will help us look at our market in new ways. You will mine data to confirm or reject hypotheses and summarize the competitive climate we are facing.
Be prepared to work in a highly collaborative environment, spend time conducting market-based research, storytelling, documenting current business insights and validating the relevance of our newly defined insights. You may also prepare presentations with your team's insights.
We will offer several internships in two distinct areas within our Americas Marketing organization- Marketing Services and Portfolio Management. These openings are within various focus groups and categories within each, ranging from Product Sustainability, Design Brand Management, Learning, Seating, Interior Architecture & Segment, Casegoods & Collaborative, and Workstations.
Who You Are:
Required Skills and Competencies
- Pursuing a BA in marketing, economics, business, entrepreneurship, and/or sustainability from an accredited university
- Authorized to work in the US without future need of sponsorship
Preferred Skills and Competencies
- Passion for product marketing in an increasingly competitive, global environment
- Analytical thinker who enjoys competitive analysis
- Eagerness to learn about the product development process
- Curiosity mindset and continuously looking for innovative ideas
- Highly collaborative
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to articulate clearly.
- Demonstrated creative problem solving and proactive learning.
- Previous marketing internship experience
Why People Choose to Work with Us:
At Steelcase, we put people at the center of everything we do. We understand the role of work and believe that it can bring meaning and purpose to the lives of our customers and our employees. We prioritize supporting our employees both in and out of work, in all aspects of their lives. When we bring our talents together, we make a positive lasting impact through our work and communities.
As a Steelcase intern, you will gain real-world, hands-on experience and be treated as an equal member of the team from day one. You will be welcomed into a family network that extends beyond your business function into an interdisciplinary network of experts in their fields.
Who We Are:
Steelcase is a global design and thought leader in the world of work. Along with our expansive community of brands, we design and manufacture innovative furnishings and solutions to help people do their best work in the many places where work happens.
Our Approach to Hybrid Work: At Steelcase, we know that work matters and can provide people with a deep sense of purpose. The workplace offers us a shared space designed for community, innovation and learning, a place to connect and conduct our most meaningful work. As such, our office is the primary hub for doing work, but by no means is it the only place.
Steelcase employees have always had a say in where they work - whether that is in the office, at home, or somewhere in between. We will continue to maintain this practice as part of our larger hybrid work strategy.
Our employees know their working style best, which is why they have the choice and control to choose how and where they work. This belief extends beyond just working on or off-campus, but also to where our employees work within our office. Because our life’s work is to create the best workplaces, our employees benefit from that expertise and quality in our own spaces.
While flexibility varies by role and team, we support choice and control for our employees so they can choose the best place to do their best work.
What Matters to Us:
More than qualifications, we’re looking for talent and potential. We are proud to have a diverse and inclusive workforce, and we're always looking to improve our global community. We value applicants who are comfortable interacting with people different from themselves, building mutual respect and positive relationships. We invite people from all backgrounds and genders to apply. If we can make the application process easier through accommodation, please email us at myhr@steelcase.com.
Steelcase provides employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants without regard to race, color, creed, genetic information, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or veteran status and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. We are proud to be recognized for our inclusive workforce by the Corporate Equality Index for the past nine years.
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