Digital Assets Intern

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At Lactalis in the USA, we're committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive-whether you're just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we're proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.

In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani Italian cheeses and ricotta, President specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone's cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel, Black Diamond cheddar, and Parmalat milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi's, Stonyfield Organic, Brown Cow, Oui, Yoplait, Go-Gurt, :ratio, Green Mountain Creamery, and Mountain High, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun, Gopi, and Arz.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values-Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone's unique background and ideas are valued.

Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

From your PASSION to ours

Lactalis USA, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Digital Assets Intern based in Buffalo, NY.

This is a 12-month paid internship opportunity. The Intern, Digital Assets position is centered around uploading assets, creating collections, entering meta-data, and ensuring proper tagging is completed. This internship is expected to last for 1 year duration at 40 hours per week.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Assist with the creation and evolution of digital asset management capabilities, focusing on product data and content integration and syndication, streamlining operations, and maintaining best practices.
• Prioritize incoming workflow, develop training materials, and make sure internal and external users have streamlined experiences.
• Assist with the design and implementation of taxonomy and metadata schemas following industry best practices; creating requirements and ensuring user and partner needs are met.
• Coordinate program support to Graphic Services, Marketing, Sales, and E-Commerce teams.
• Discover ways to enhance automation of asset ingest, tagging and syndication/distribution.
• Load assets into the system, organize, and perform general asset maintenance and management, as well as manage associate issues, and curate assets in the digital asset management system.
• Ensure that product data is properly associated with digital assets and transferred to the PIM (working closely with the E-Commerce team for product renderings).
• Perform digital asset lifecycle maintenance activities, provide oversight and direction to the asset workflows, and ensure alignment with the marketing and brand teams, as well as 3rd party agencies.
• Maintain and contribute to standards and governance by keeping abreast of industry best practices.
• Develop more skills and expertise in digital asset curation and syndication by being current with prevailing technologies in the digital world, and so be able to contribute to the evolution of new content formats.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures (brand standards, corporate standards, and packaging standards).

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• Bachelor's degree in graphic/Digital Design, Digital Content Production, Digital Asset Management, Computer Science, or related field

Experience

• Minimum of 1-2 years of proven experience with digital asset management or, digital asset organization
• Experience with asset curation, with between 1-2 years' experience in DAM administration or in a related field
• Some knowledge of DAM (digital asset management), metadata, taxonomy, SEO best practices, strategy principles and concepts for assets and digital content
• Some experience in data governance, standards, and process development
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office Suite, Google Analytics, or other tools
• Strong ability to work with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel, Outlook, Word, PowerPoint
• Strong communications skills

Specialized Knowledge

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to build and lead.
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to apply data in providing solutions and driving strategic business decisions.
• Profound project management skills.

Skills / Abilities

• Highly organized with experience managing multiple projects and priorities while managing workflow in a deadline driven and service-focused environment.
• Able to multi-task and adapt to changing circumstances in a busy environment while maintaining a creative approach to solving design challenges.
• Active engagement in the DAM community
• Strong interpersonal skills including ability to maintain strong professional relationships with a diverse range of groups, and associates in different locations.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Attentive to detail.

At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities.