Job Description

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 Animal Health (AH) 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 Animal Health Division (AH) U.S. Channel Team Sales Intern will be a field based (remote) full-time position supporting the AH overall business. The intern will support, and lead projects aligned to our company’s strategic priorities. The intern will spend his/her 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 AH 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:

• For a Field-based Sales Intern in Animal Health, you will 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.

• Valid driver’s license and able to drive a vehicle.

• 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 2025.

• Candidates must be available for a period of 10-12 weeks beginning May 19, 2025

• 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:

• Retail, Sales, and/or Customer Service exposure

• Sales training and/or applied sales exposure

• Minimum GPA of 3.0

• Leadership roles during college

• Basic knowledge of the Animal Health and/or Animal Feed industries

• Food Production Animal exposure

• Companion Animal (Equine & Canine) exposure

• Additional language fluency

Under New York City, Colorado State, Washington State, and California State law, the Company is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the salary range for this job. Final determinations with respect to salary will take into account a number of factors, which may include, but not be limited to the primary work location and the chosen candidate’s relevant skills, experience, and education.

Expected salary range:

$39,600.00-$105,500.00

FTP2025

MAH2025

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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U.S. Hybrid Work Model

Effective September 5, 2023, employees in office-based positions in the U.S. will be working a Hybrid work consisting of three total days on-site per week, generally Tuesday, Wednesday and either Monday or Thursday, although the specific days may vary by site or organization, with Friday designated as a remote-working day, unless business critical tasks require an on-site presence. This Hybrid work model does not apply to, and daily in-person attendance is required for, field-based positions; facility-based, manufacturing-based, or research-based positions where the work to be performed is located at a Company site; positions covered by a collective-bargaining agreement (unless the agreement provides for hybrid work); or any other position for which the Company has determined the job requirements cannot be reasonably met working remotely. Please note, this Hybrid work model guidance also does not apply to roles that have been designated as “remote”.

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Employee Status:

Intern/Co-op (Fixed Term)

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

No

Travel Requirements:

50%

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Remote

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

Yes

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

11/11/2024

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Job Posting End Date: 11/11/2024

A job posting is effective until 11:59:59PM on the day BEFORE the listed job posting end date. Please ensure you apply to a job posting no later than the day BEFORE the job posting end date.

Requisition ID: R308801