Graduate Students
Jump start your career by joining our project teams. You'll be working in a fun and competitive business environment as you help us some of the world’s most important food challenges through innovation and ag technology.
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Marketing at Land O’Lakes is all about owning the business, developing the strategy and leading your cross-functional teams to deliver results. As both a general manager and marketing expert, your job as an Intern is to drive growth by delivering meaningful, branded solutions that meet the needs of our customers.
Our solutions start with the customer from farmers to foodservice operators, animal owners to grocery store shoppers. Interns work on real projects that matter and make an impact to the business.
Our solutions start with the customer from farmers to foodservice operators, animal owners to grocery store shoppers. Interns work on real projects that matter and make an impact to the business.
- Animal Nutrition Show. Analyze a business opportunity and develop a business strategy to drive growth.
- Dairy Foods Specialty Powders. Conduct a landscape assessment across consumers, retailers, CPG companies, and key ingredients to develop a pricing model.
- Dairy Foods Retail Cheese. Articulate a clear business strategy for a regional market.
- WinField United. Develop a go-to-market approach for a key product.
Strategy interns are thought partners that work on projects across the Land O’Lakes enterprise. Our team is invited to have conversions with the business to solve: how to think about growth, how should Land O’Lakes address industry trends, global impacts, climate control.
We build relations with our business leads and customers to collaborate as a team to create assumptions and forecast what’s happening in our industry and economy. Our internship projects reflect an actual business challenge or opportunity.
We build relations with our business leads and customers to collaborate as a team to create assumptions and forecast what’s happening in our industry and economy. Our internship projects reflect an actual business challenge or opportunity.
- Purina. Assess the potential fit and growth opportunity for Land O’Lakes in the growing dairy technology space.
- Member Relations. Identified key drivers of dairy consolidation, evaluated the implications on our membership and businesses.
- Dairy Foods. Evaluate the impact of cell-based meat/dairy and electric vehicles on Land O’Lakes.
- WinField United. Outline an expansion strategy that would use AnswerPlot data to improve both product sales and the farmer's risk management tools.
Manage a variety of financial projects across our different business units. Act as a consultant and strategic business partner tackling exciting challenges with a finance lens. You'll identify what is the economic issue, consult with the business, help them take action, perform financial modeling on ROI, and quantify and articulate the business needs. Some of the projects that our interns have worked on are:
- Forecast Accuracy Improvement. Analyze business KPIs against financial results and recommend methods to improve financial forecast accuracy in Dairy, Purina, and WinField United.
- Corporate Target Setting. Evaluate the process for setting business unit targets and recommend new approaches across all Land O’Lakes businesses.
- New Product Development. Develop a go-to-market approach for a new service in WinField United.
HR Pathways interns work on impactful business projects across all HR functions and businesses, with a final presentation to HR leadership team and other key partners. Past HR Pathways interns have worked on:
- Talent Acceleration Program Project. Development of an undergraduate talent rotation program with the goal of developing cross-functional understanding and skills of the various functions within our Dairy business.
- Recognition & Wellness Programs. Development of a unique recognition & wellness program for plant employees at Vermont Creamery. Also, pilot wellness program for transportation employees.
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Plan and execute the annual Land O’Lakes DEI Summit for all employees.
- International Learning. Implementation of development actions and learning resources to improve our employee’s global mindsets.
Meet Recent MBA Interns
Meet Recent MBA Interns
Here's who they are and what they learned while at Land O'Lakes.
"I worked on a project in Dairy Foods, building a recommendation for how to expand the licensing business. I pulled together qualitative inputs, from internal interviews, to understand how best to work with current partners, and from quantitative data from IRI to identify retail categories where Land O'Lakes might want to seek new partners."
Lizzy Bayoff
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
MBA
MBA
"During my internship, I was the FP&A co-pilot for the go-to-market of our new financial services business at Winfield United. I analyzed how to better infuse external factors into our annual business-planning process. Partnering with business-unit stakeholders, accounting, and finance was an educational, impactful and fun experience! I was surprised to learn about the strong alignment between the clarity of purpose in the work we do and its positive impact for our stakeholders."
Adwait Walimbe
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management
MBA
MBA
"My primary focus of the summer was to evaluate the goal-setting process at Land O’ Lakes, and to create a recommendation for ways that it could be improved. The most surprising thing that I learned was how quickly people can adapt to change if there is total buy-in. This was demonstrated as the company quickly adapted to working remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic."
Samuel Pickerign
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Business
Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations
Masters of Human Resources and Industrial Relations