2027 Summer Intern: Marketing - MBA

PepsiCo; Purchase (NY); Hybrid; USD 76,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Job summary

PepsiCo offers a Marketing Internship across U.S. HQ locations (Chicago, Purchase, Plano) for MBA students. Interns tackle business challenges with experienced marketers, gain autonomy with support, and may earn a full-time opportunity after graduation.

You will develop high-impact marketing recommendations, gain exposure to brands like Gatorade and Lay’s, and participate in mentorship and professional development initiatives.

Qualifications

• MBA candidate with expected completion Dec 2027 or May 2028
• 2-5 years of work experience
• Located in one of: Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Purchase, NY
• Indefinite right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Summer assignments include developing brand strategy and in-store/online commercialization ideas
• Leverage consumer insights to shape product, packaging, or communications development
• Build new product concepts and launch strategies
• Develop impactful consumer promotions and marketing programs
• Design social and digital campaigns and measurement tactics
• Collaborate with agencies on brand positioning and communications
• Use data to guide strategy and future opportunities

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Leadership

Presentation skills

Team building

Feedback skills

Education

MBA degree in progress

Job description

Overview

SMILE AT WHAT’S NEXT

At PepsiCo, you'll find the opportunity to grow your career, make an impact, and help shape what's next. As one of the world's leading food and beverage companies, our beloved brands—including Gatorade, Lay's, and Quaker—help create smiles with every sip and bite. Behind our products is a connected system that starts with how we source and grow ingredients alongside farmers and extends to how we make, move, and deliver products while driving positive impact for our business and communities.

At the heart of PepsiCo are our people: professionals who bring curiosity, drive, and fresh thinking, working together to turn ideas into action. Across functions, teams, and markets, we collaborate to solve challenges, unlock new opportunities, and create meaningful impact for our consumers, customers, and communities.

No matter your role, you'll be part of a connected community where your contributions matter, your voice is heard, and your development is supported. With opportunities to grow, belong, and smile, PepsiCo offers more than a place to build your career—it offers the chance to help create what's next.

Responsibilities

Functional Description

PepsiCo’s marketing internship is a chance to spend a summer tackling business challenges alongside experienced marketers in one of our three U.S. headquarter locations: Chicago, IL (PepsiCo Foods & Gatorade); Purchase, NY (Pepsi Beverages); and Plano, TX (PepsiCo Foods). We rely on interns for fresh perspective, and in turn we let them showcase their ability to provide a meaningful, comprehensive business recommendation. As interns fact-find and problem-solve to reach a recommendation, they enjoy great autonomy as well as full support, guidance, and feedback from their managers, cross-functional partners, and the broad marketing organization. Interns have the chance to learn the business, build a network, and, potentially, earn a full-time opportunity upon graduation.

What you can expect

At PepsiCo you can think like an entrepreneur, but with the global reach and resources to support you. As a Marketing Intern you will be given significant responsibility to create high impact marketing recommendations that enable PepsiCo to achieve short and long-term strategic business objectives. In addition to core project work, you will develop and demonstrate functional ownership, leadership capability, creative thinking, analytical thinking, consumer empathy and business acumen. The internship also provides exposure to best-in-class brands, campaigns, and marketers by means of professional development initiatives and mentorship.

Summer assignments may include

• Developing overall strategy for a brand, including commercialization in-store and online ideas to meet long-term business goals (total sales, distribution, household penetration, profits)
• Leveraging consumer insights to understand problems to solve and to be the voice in product, packaging, or communication development
• Building new product innovation concepts and developing new product launch strategies
• Developing impactful consumer promotions, events, and marketing programs
• Leveraging insights to design social and digital campaigns, along with creative measurement tactics
• Partnering with agencies in the creation of brand positioning and communication strategies
• Using data to understand category and competitive dynamics to guide strategy and recommendations for future business opportunities

The Summer Experience

We believe internships are critical to nurturing top talent for our future, so we make them meaningful. Here is some of the experience you can expect to gain:

• 10-weeks of marketing experience on a core marketing function including but not limited to brand, innovation, shopper marketing, sports marketing, and more
• Assigned buddy
• Intern networking events, we hope you will leave with lasting relationships!
• Executive leadership exposure
• Competitive pay
• Insight into the many tracks your career can take as a marketer at PepsiCo including General Management, CMO, and beyond

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• Currently pursuing a Masters of Business Administration degree
• 3+ years of related work experience
• Highly motivated self-starter
• Highly focused, analytical thinkers
• Cross-functional collaborators with strong communication and influence skills
• Proven people/project leadership throughout your career (academic or professional)
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make tradeoff decisions quickly
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team building skills
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback
• Prior knowledge and/or experience with a consumer packaged goods corporation is preferred
• Experience in Marketing Is preferred.

Minimum Qualifications - Each candidate is expected to

• Graduate with MBA degree within one (1) year of internship completion (Dec 2027 or May 2028)
• 2-5 years of work experience
• Ability to be located in one of the below areas:
  • Chicago, IL
  • Dallas, TX
  • Purchase, NY
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.

The expected compensation hourly pay ranges for hires into our 2027 campus intern openings is $55.50- $56.30 hourly.

• Role, degree discipline, degree level, and location are part of the process when determining actual starting salary for positions.
• Hourly pay for our campus hires is pre-determined and non-negotiable.
• We love to convert our interns to full time opportunities! Our full-time positions have a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

EEO Statement

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity / Age

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

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