Category Management Intern
About The Position
The Category Management Intern will support Lindt’s Category Management team, initially focusing on the Kroger business. The role applies retail, shopper, and category data to identify opportunities in assortment, merchandising, shelf execution, and store segmentation. The intern will own meaningful project deliverables, turn analysis into concise, actionable recommendations, and present findings to Lindt’s customer team. This is part of Lindt’s twelve-week summer Lindternship program for undergraduate and graduate students, which provides hands-on experience, practical skill development, mentorship, career-development workshops, and networking opportunities. The position is based at Lindt’s satellite office in Mason, Ohio, and is expected to work onsite four to five days per week. The role also requires multiple trips to Lindt’s headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire; Lindt will pay travel expenses.
Requirements
- Currently enrolled as a sophomore, junior, or senior in an accredited undergraduate degree program.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and complete project work with attention to detail.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and project management skills.
- Clear written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively and work independently with guidance.
- Curiosity about shoppers, retailers, consumer packaged goods, and the confection candy category.
- Ability to work onsite in the Mason, Ohio office four to five days per week during the twelve-week summer internship program.
- Ability to travel multiple times during the program to Lindt’s headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire.
- Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis; the company will not sponsor work visas.
- Must successfully pass a background screening; drug screening may also be required.
Nice To Haves
- Coursework, projects, internships, or student leadership experience involving business analysis, marketing, consumer insights, retail, or related disciplines.
- Experience working with data and creating presentations.
- Preferred fields of study include Category Management, Business Analytics, Marketing, Consumer Insights, or a related field.
- Experience with syndicated data, shopper data, retail portals, or space-planning tools.
- Exposure to tools such as Circana (PO$, Panel), Kroger (84.51, Market 6), Numerator, and Blue Yonder JDA Space Planning assortment tool.
Responsibilities
- Analyze retail, syndicated, shopper, and other available data to identify category trends, business opportunities, and performance drivers.
- Support planogram and merchandising analyses, reviewing shelf layouts, assortment, distribution, placement, and space productivity across stores or customer formats.
- Assist with store clustering and shopper segmentation to identify localized assortment and merchandising opportunities.
- Develop clear, unbiased, and actionable recommendations that support category growth and customer objectives.
- Create concise business stories and presentation materials synthesizing data, shopper insights, and marketplace trends for internal or customer-facing discussions.
- Partner with Category Management, Sales, Shopper Insights, and other cross-functional teams to advance assigned projects and understand retailer strategy.
- Support the organization, standardization, and maintenance of category data, analytical workspaces, planogram files, and shared resources.
- Own assigned project deliverables, communicate progress, and present final findings and recommendations to the Category Management team.
Benefits
- Lindt-paid travel expenses for required trips to headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire.
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Intern
