Overview
2025 Summer Intern: Marketing Intern - MBA
PepsiCo is a playground for curious people. We invite thinkers, doers, and changemakers to champion innovation, take calculated risks, and challenge the status quo. From executives to leaders on the frontline, we're excited about the future. We take chances. Together, we dare to make the world a better place.
Our associates are the magic ingredient. Each of them plays an integral role in helping create deep connections between people and our products. Think about your last group celebration: Chances are, one of our iconic brands was by your side. At PepsiCo, you're invited to be a part of a global team of innovators who make, move, and sell these products-which are enjoyed by more than 1 billion people a day.
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A career at PepsiCo means working in a culture where everyone's invited. Here, you can dare to be yourself. No matter who you are or where you're from, you can influence the people around you and the world at large. By showing up, you'll have the opportunity learn, develop, and grow our unique skill sets at work. Our supportive teams can fuel your professional goals to make a global impact.
Join us. Dare for Better.
Responsibilities
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!
Compensation & Benefits:
The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2025 campus intern openings is $55 - $56/hour.
- Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions
- Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable
- We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full-time positions have a comprehensive benefits package that include:
- Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement. In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan
Qualifications
What we're looking for:
- 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
- Prior knowledge and/or experience with a consumer packaged goods corporation is preferred
- Experience in Marketing Is preferred
Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to:
- Graduate with MBA degree within one (1) year of internship completion (Dec 2025 or May 2026
- 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
EEO Statement
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.
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