2027 Summer Intern: Marketing - MBA

PepsiCo•Purchase, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities. At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities. No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next. MANDATORY REQUIREMENT: PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR COVER LETTER WITH YOUR RESUME. PLEASE UPLOAD BOTH AS ONE DOCUMENT IN THE “RESUME UPLOAD” SECTION OF THE APPLICATION. Functional Description: PepsiCo’s marketing internship is a chance to spend a summer tackling business challenges alongside experienced marketers in one of our three U.S. headquarter locations: Chicago, IL (PepsiCo Foods & Gatorade); Purchase, NY (Pepsi Beverages); and Plano, TX (PepsiCo Foods). We rely on interns for fresh perspective, and in turn we let them showcase their ability to provide a meaningful, comprehensive business recommendation. As interns fact-find and problem-solve to reach a recommendation, they enjoy great autonomy as well as full support, guidance, and feedback from their managers, cross-functional partners, and the broad marketing organization. Interns have the chance to learn the business, build a network, and, potentially, earn a full-time opportunity upon graduation. What you can expect: At PepsiCo you can think like an entrepreneur, but with the global reach and resources to support you. As a Marketing Intern you will be given significant responsibility to create high impact marketing recommendations that enable PepsiCo to achieve short and long-term strategic business objectives. In addition to core project work, you will develop and demonstrate functional ownership, leadership capability, creative thinking, analytical thinking, consumer empathy and business acumen. The internship also provides exposure to best-in-class brands, campaigns, and marketers by means of professional development initiatives and mentorship. Summer assignments may include: Developing overall strategy for a brand, including commercialization in-store and online ideas to meet long-term business goals (total sales, distribution, household penetration, profits) Leveraging consumer insights to understand problems to solve and to be the voice in product, packaging, and/or communication development Building new product innovation concepts and developing new product launch strategies Developing impactful consumer promotions, events, and marketing programs Leveraging insights to design social and digital campaigns, along with creative measurement tactics Partnering with agencies in the creation of brand positioning and communication strategies Using data to understand category and competitive dynamics to guide strategy and recommendations for future business opportunities The Summer Experience: We believe internships are critical to nurturing top talent for our future, so we make them meaningful. Here is some of the experience you can expect to gain: 10-weeks of marketing experience on a core marketing function including but not limited to brand, innovation, shopper marketing, sports marketing, and more Assigned buddy Intern networking events, we hope you will leave with lasting relationships! Executive leadership exposure Competitive pay Insight into the many tracks your career can take as a marketer at PepsiCo including General Management, CMO, and beyond

Requirements

Currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration degree
3+ years of related work experience
Highly motivated self-starter
Highly focused, analytical thinkers
Cross-functional collaborators with strong communication and influence skills
Proven people/project leadership throughout your career (academic or professional)
Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills
Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
Graduate with MBA degree within one (1) year of internship completion (Dec 2027 or May 2028
2-5 years of work experience
Ability to be located in one of the below areas: Chicago, IL Dallas, TX Purchase, NY
This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Prior knowledge and/or experience with a consumer packaged goods corporation is preferred
Experience in Marketing Is preferred.

Responsibilities

Developing overall strategy for a brand, including commercialization in-store and online ideas to meet long-term business goals (total sales, distribution, household penetration, profits)
Leveraging consumer insights to understand problems to solve and to be the voice in product, packaging, and/or communication development
Building new product innovation concepts and developing new product launch strategies
Developing impactful consumer promotions, events, and marketing programs
Leveraging insights to design social and digital campaigns, along with creative measurement tactics
Partnering with agencies in the creation of brand positioning and communication strategies
Using data to understand category and competitive dynamics to guide strategy and recommendations for future business opportunities