Product Management and Marketing Intern
Intro
Sika is a specialty chemicals company with a leading position in the development and production of systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protecting in the building sector and motor vehicle industry.
Sika has subsidiaries in 100 countries around the world and manufactures in over 300 factories. Sika employs more than 25,000 people and generated sales of CHF 8.1 billion in 2019. At the end of 2019 Sika won the Swiss Technology Award for a groundbreaking new adhesive technology.
Exciting Challenges
Broad Function and Purpose of Position: Responsible for product support functions relating to the waterproofing, mortars and sealant product lines. These functions support the salesforce and the Director of Product Management in ways that increase the sales and market share in the designated product areas.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Run special projects to support the business such as product evaluations, research & marketing
- Work with Sealants, Mortars and Waterproofing Product Managers on key projects
- Prepare and deliver recommendations on specific areas asked to research
- Help create and drive sales initiatives, marketing initiatives, technical product evaluations
- Support Field Testing of new products
- Run surveys with sales team to gather critical market information to support future projects
- Evaluate products vs competitors
- Support product literature and electronic media
- Lab trials and running product experiments
- Work on ad hoc projects that come up on daily or weekly basis
We Need Your Skills
- Current college student, Sophomore, Junior or Senior with an interest in marketing and/or product management. Position is complementary to engineering and marketing degrees.
- Minimum of 1 year college in Engineering or Marketing
- Well organized and strong communicator
- Willing to take initiative and work independently.