Category Leadership (Marketing) Internship

Johnsonville, LLC

Category Leadership Internship (Marketing)

Summer 2026

Position Overview:

The Category Leadership Intern will help us sell sausage by working closely with sales, marketing, and our retail customers, providing data insights and analysis, information support, and training.  This position focuses on:

• An extensive onboarding and training program
• Utilizing data to identify insights
• Using data-driven insights to tell stories that help drive category and brand growth
• Sausage category leadership and development
• Sausage selling capability and tool development
• Opportunity to apply technical and communication skills learned to customer-facing work

Responsibilities:

• Develop customer specific analyses that explain trends, identify distribution opportunities, develop promotion recommendations, etc.
• Provide syndicated POS, panel, and customer card data to drive Johnsonville and category growth
• Create and analyze marketing and sales reports using a variety of reporting tools and data sources
• Leverage Johnsonville pricing and assortment tools to accurately forecast volume and share based on price, promotion, or assortment changes 

Education:

• Candidate must currently be working towards a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications or a related field from an accredited university; junior or senior status preferred.
• 3.5 minimum GPA strongly preferred.

Experience:

• Prior work experience preferred.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent computer skills (Excel and PowerPoint required)
• Excellent communication, organization and presentation skills (written and oral)
• Ability to tell a story with data 
• Genuine curiosity and desire to ask, “what’s next?”
• Ability to contribute to strong team environment with positive and constructive input 

Other Requirements:

• Must be at least 18 years old

Date:                                 September 2, 2025

Coach:                              Sr. Category Insights Analyst

Travel:                               Minimal

Location:                          Global Headquarters – Sheboygan Falls, WI

Member Status:              Hourly Intern

Start Date:                       May 18, 2026

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 4,000+ Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

How to Apply:   

External candidate:  Apply on-line only at: careers.johnsonville.com 

Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Johnsonville is an equal opportunity employer, including Vet/Disability. 

We embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including protected veteran and disability status.