U.S. Channel Team Sales Intern
The Future Talent Program features internships that last up to 12 weeks and will include one or more projects. These opportunities in our Animal Health Division can provide you with great development and a chance to see if we are the right company for your long-term goals.
Our Company is a global health care leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our Company has codified its legacy for over a century. Our Company's success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
Our Company's Animal Health Division works to improve the health of animals around the world through collaborative partnerships and a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society, and planet. This team of energetic, independent thinkers offers one of the industry's most innovative portfolios of products, services, and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species both domestically and internationally.
Our Company's Animal Health Division U.S. Channel Team Sales Intern will be a field based (remote) full-time position supporting the Animal Health overall business. The intern will support, and lead projects aligned to our company's strategic priorities. The intern will spend the summer in customer-facing roles, supporting both brick-and-mortar retailers as well as e-commerce retailers.
The U.S. Channel Team Sales Intern will :
- Support both the retail sales team as well as the e-commerce sales team, providing support for our company's retail & e-commerce product portfolio.
- Be assigned to a director for general direction / guidance, as well as a mentor to direct daily interactions with the assigned business team(s).
- Have introductory training focused on products, programs, and an introduction into retail long-chain selling.
- Develop and execute plans for engaging customers and meeting customer needs.
- Work with retail distribution, dealers, and consumers to provide support to the retail sales team promoting programs and sales, including detailing / selling our company's retail products, conducting surveys, setting retail merchandising displays, supporting dealer / industry meetings & tradeshows, and providing extended support of our company's sales team.
- Participate in field-based events (trade show support; customers education regarding the features and benefits of animal health products and services).
- Present a summary of their summer contributions to leadership at the conclusion of the internship program.
- Be required to rent a car. As part of this position requirements, you will have to be legally authorized to rent a car in the state in which you reside / work in.
Required Education, Experience and Skills :
Candidates must be in the process of earning a BA or BS degree and currently enrolled in any bachelor's or master's degree program (animal science, ag business, agriculture, as well as business, marketing, or related degrees).Candidates must have completed at least 2 years of college course work by May 2026.Candidates must be available for a period of 10-12 weeks beginning near the end of May 2026.Candidates must be returning to school after completing this internship.Candidates must have ability and willingness to travel up to 50%.Candidates must have excellent interpersonal / communication and presentation skills.Candidates must have general computer skills including working knowledge of word, excel and powerpoint and the ability to use an ipad.Candidates must have ability to be organized, adapt to a changing environment, work independently and as part of a team.Candidates must have ability to travel and live in the region of the U.S. where the intern is placed for the period of the internship.Preferred Experience and Skills :
Candidate should have retail, sales, and / or customer service exposure.Candidate should have sales training and / or applied sales exposure.Candidate should have a minimum GPA of 3.0.Candidate should have leadership roles during college.Candidate should have basic knowledge of the animal health and / or animal feed industries.Candidate should have food production animal exposure.Candidate should have companion animal (equine & canine) exposure.Candidate should have additional language fluency, highly preferred.Please note that this position may be closed before the posted end date or may remain open longer, at the discretion of the company.