Digital Assets Intern

Description

Lactalis USA is currently seeking candidates to join our US Graphic Design team in Buffalo, NY. 

Lactalis, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to nurturing the future by providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. We produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together every day. We offer an enviable range of dairy brands including Galbani®, Président®, Kraft® Natural Cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond®, Parmalat®, Siggi’s®, and Stonyfield Organic® in addition to several brands imported from our affiliates in Europe. 

At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do. We are dedicated to building a safe, diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE!  You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company. 

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. 

From your PASSION to ours 

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:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

· 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).

Requirements

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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 (di