Digital Assets Intern

Lactalis USA is currently seeking candidates to join our Graphic Design team in Buffalo, NY.

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirit, hands-on responsibility, and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

At Lactalis USA we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace and we know that our candidates come from many different backgrounds, cultures, and experiences. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job posting, we still encourage you to apply and share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE! You may be just the perfect candidate for this or other roles within our company.

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:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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 ability to build and lead.

· Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to apply data in providing solutions and driving strategic business decisions.

· Profound project management skills.

Skills / Abilities

· Highly organized with experience managing multiple projects and priorities while managing workflow in a deadline driven and service-focused environment.

· Able to multi-task and adapt to changing circumstances in a busy environment while maintaining a creative approach to solving design challenges.

· Active engagement in the DAM community

· Strong interpersonal skills including ability to maintain strong professional relationships with a diverse range of groups, and associates in different locations.

· Excellent problem-solving skills.

· Attentive to detail.

Job Type: Internship

Pay: $16.50 - $20.50 per hour

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Buffalo, NY 14220: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person