Intern - Strategic Insights

Rich’s, also known as Rich Products Corporation, is a family-owned food company dedicated to inspiring possibilities. From cakes and icings to pizza, appetizers and specialty toppings, our products are used in homes, restaurants and bakeries around the world. Beyond great food, our customers also gain insights to help them stay competitive, no matter their size. Our portfolio includes creative solutions geared at helping food industry professionals compete in foodservice, retail, in-store bakery, deli, and prepared foods, among others. Working in 100 locations globally, with annual sales exceeding $4 billion, Rich’s is a global leader with a focus on everything that family makes possible. Rich’s—Infinite Possibilities. One Family.

Purpose Statement

Rich’s has been able to pull off something rare in the business world: a culture that successfully blends the latest business practices with family values. That means our associates are able to work for a great company while also benefiting from a work environment that fosters world class professionalism combined with family intimacy. Our benefit offerings are reflective of this unique blend of Life, Work and Family.

Key Accountabilities And Outcomes

As a member of our small and fast-paced team, you will collaborate with team members from innovation, product business units, customer marketing, demand creation, and other stakeholders. In this role, you will work with the Strategic Insights team and other business stakeholders across innovation research, market trends and customer-facing insights. You will be developing insights that will help create and market better products for the future. You will enjoy this role if you love research and data analysis, identifying insights that make a difference, and telling a data-driven story for actionable business strategy.

• Monitor trends through trade publications and key strategic resources, summarizing for internal programs, presentations, and/or customer-facing materials
• Provide primary research support including survey programming and analyzing survey data
• Extract key category findings across articles and reports to pull together a compelling data-driven story
• Analyze category data sets and report findings to the team and stakeholders
• As needed, prepare insights and materials for demand creation campaigns, conduct competitive searches, and optimize knowledge infrastructure / knowledge management in order to enable teams across Rich’s to better leverage our research
• Support research and innovation projects, including research brief development, innovation session planning, RFP construction, and project management

Basic Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in the Buffalo area and majoring in Marketing, Business, Analytics, Social Sciences, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to multitask, prioritize, and be able to successfully handle several projects at once. Organizational skills are a must along with attention to detail
• Resourceful and able to figure out who or where to look for information
• Possessing investigative curiosity - enjoys digging through unstructured data to find insights
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and independently
• Able to work individually and be part of a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Basic statistical understanding
• Strong PC proficiency to include Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Market research experience and survey experience (building, analyzing) is a plus

Compensation urly Rate

In accordance with state law, the rat or range provided is Rich Products Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates ("Rich's"), reasonable extimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory factores such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, shift differential and location.

Annual Range/Ho urly Rate

$17 - $32 Hourly

Rich Products Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Rich’s”), are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity standing up for fairness and maintaining a culture of belonging, to provide an exceptional experience for all. We will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, military or veteran status, or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity, and maintain employment statistics on applicants.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Rich’s. Please contact Rich’s Associate Experience Network at [email protected] if you need assistance completing this application or to otherwise participate in the application process.