We’re Looking For A: Pet Brand Sales & Training Intern to help our award-winning Retail Team grow our market through training, merchandising, and store level selling.

Location: Virginia/Maryland

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Gain placement and sales of our incredibly successful Golden Hippo pet brands into individual stores within assigned geography
• Work with distributor sales reps within the area to meet assigned sales goals
• Educate and motivate in-store team members to turn them into our very own brand ambassadors
• Create, execute and analyze merchandising programs and promotions at store level
• Analyze the market to identify areas for concern and opportunity 
• Competitive assessments of different pet categories based on store level observations

Preferred Qualifications (Note: These are preferred and not required. We strongly encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick ALL of these boxes.):

• Ability to interact and motivate partners including Store Managers and store personnel
• Self motivated and self directed with the ability to perform well with limited direction
• Detail orientation and great follow through
• Persistent personality
• Creativity to create store level marketing programs
• Some work experience
• Previous internship in business or related field, preferred
• Business degree or related field 
• Pet lovers are a plus!

*Following the conclusion of your internship, Interns will be invited to join our exclusive LinkedIn Alumni group where you will be updated on Golden Hippo announcements, job opportunities, and other industry-related information. 

Click here to listen to Key Account Manager Wyatt talk about his experience on the Retail team!

If you’d like to learn more about internships at Golden Hippo, click here to read about our current Employer Branding Intern’s experience!

$17.00 - $22.00/hour, monthly KPI bonus potential, depending upon experience