Digital Assets Intern

Description

Looking for a job that can grow into a lifelong career? At Lactalis USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

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

In the US, we offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® 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 sour cream and a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We’re building 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 make an impact.

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: 

•  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

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 abili