What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Planning - Marketing Intern position at Blount Fine Foods?
Description
Job Summary
A Commercial Planning & Marketing Intern supports the customer marketing team by assisting with sales, trade, and marketing analyses that inform planning and execution across key retailers. The intern helps compile data, prepare meeting materials, and evaluate promotional performance while contributing to category and competitive insights. They assist in the creation and organization of marketing assets, support execution of marketing programs, and maintain recurring reports to ensure stakeholders have timely and accurate information. Through cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and Category Management, the intern helps streamline processes, improve workflow efficiency, and deliver administrative and project support that advances broader commercial and marketing priorities. In the event of an absence, position will be filled by trained personnel.
Duties/Responsibilities
Commercial Planning Support
- Assist in compiling key sales, trade, and promotional data to support weekly and monthly commercial planning routines.
- Help prepare materials for customer meetings, including scorecards, promotional calendars, and sell-in decks.
- Support analysis of promotional performance, pricing, and distribution changes to identify trends or opportunities with the assistance of the Blue Planner platform.
- Market & Category Insights.
- Conduct basic research on category trends, competitive activity, consumer behavior, and market performance.
- Summarize findings into simple insights that support Sales and Marketing initiatives.
- Assist in updating category snapshots, consumer profiles, and competitive landscape summaries.
Marketing Activation & Execution.
- Support the development of marketing assets such as sell sheets, product information updates, and promotional materials.
- Help coordinate execution of marketing programs, including gathering creative files, tracking assets, and updating timelines.
- Other responsibilities w/ similar skill and work conditions as assigned.
- Assist with content organization across internal systems (SharePoint, Teams, digital asset libraries).
- Assist with content organization across internal systems (SharePoint, Teams, digital asset libraries).
Reporting & Data Management
- Support the creation and maintenance of recurring reports (weekly dashboards, retailer recaps, item performance summaries)
- Ensure data accuracy by validating information across systems and flagging discrepancies.
- Manage simple data uploads, file organization, and template updates to streamline reporting workflows.
Responsibilities for Food Safety
- Responsible for completing required paperwork accurately and honestly as applicable.
- Must adhere to all corporate GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices), established SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and all Food and Employee Safety policies.
- Must adhere to all Allergen control programs and procedures as applicable.
- Responsible for reporting suspicious packages, activities, and individuals.
- If monitoring CCPs (Critical Control Points), must be trained in HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point) and adhere to approved HACCP plan(s).
Required Skills/Abilities
- Level II: the ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally in English as it pertains to individual position.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percentage and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Microsoft Office software, competent with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team environment as well as independently.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Eagerness and willingness to learn.
- Ability to work and solve problems.
- Maintain a positive attitude to continue learning and support the overall business.
Education and/or Experience
Currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or a related field.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- This position requires a valid driver’s license, pre-employment and annual screening of Motor Vehicle Record and personal automobile insurance coverage in accordance with the Blount Fine Foods Employee Handbook.
Physical Requirements
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to 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 sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.