Brief Description:
Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals, a joint venture between Solazyme and Roquette Freres, believes that microalgae are incredible sources of sustainable, heart-healthy food ingredients that that will revolutionize our future. Our Mission is to be the world's leading provider of innovative, proprietary algal-based food ingredients that allow our marketing and manufacturing partners to innovate and excel within their own industries.
Description:
Solazyme Roquette Nutritionals has an outstanding internship opportunity for a student or new graduate who has studied Marketing or a related field. This position is located at the SRN headquarters in South San Francisco, California, and is scheduled to last up to 26 weeks.
The successful candidates will:
- Oversee market analysis of various segments of the food industry as well as applications (Demand Analysis)
- Realize competition follow up and synthetize info (Supply Analysis)
- Provide miscellaneous project coordination with the rest of the marketing team and SRN team (Applications, Sales, Commercial Operations, Product Development. . .)
- Create and maintain database for marketing (markets, competition, medias, events, tradeshows)
- Assist the marketing team with tradeshow organization, events, PR, marketing docs, etc.. . . to support sales team
- Integrate new info on the website and maintain it to ensure information is up to date
- Other administrative duties and projects as assigned
Qualifications:
Working towards, or in receipt of, a Bachelor's degree with a focus on marketing or one of the following areas: communications, graphic design or public relations
Must be a self-starter with the ability to work independently once instructions have been given
Must have the ability to work well on and with a team
Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to write for both print and online communication
Ability to prioritize / balance multiple projects at once
Tech savvy: familiarity with Internet research tools, database management, MS Office applications
Marketing knowledge in food or food ingredient business a plus
Web expertise and social networking tools experience a plus
This is a paid internship that is scheduled to last up to 26 weeks, starting in February, 2012. There is no relocation or visa sponsorship available for this position.
If your qualifications meet our needs, please submit your application through the Solazyme web site at www.solazyme.com.
- This is an internship job
- Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
- Please, no phone calls about this job!
- Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.