Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 160,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Internship in Research Park at the Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC:
YOU MUST CURRENTLY BE ENROLLED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (UIUC) FOR THIS INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY WITH CARGILL AT THE UIUC RESEARCH PARK
In partnership with the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Research Park, you will be given the opportunity as an intern to work with Cargill Digital Labs through our local office, The Cargill Innovation Lab at UIUC, to gain hands on experience in real business situations and be exposed to many of Cargill's businesses and functions during the work term.
As a Communications and Market Research intern, you will work across a variety of digital product initiatives and teams to provide copywriting and research support. Communications responsibilities could range from drafting blog posts, crafting e-newsletters, writing early drafts of press releases, collaborating on naming exercises for prototypes or writing copy for screens of an app. Research tasks could range from target audience research, crafting surveys or questionnaires, market research to competitive research.
As an organization our mission is to lead in nourishing the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. Cargill Digital Labs (CDL) strives to help prepare us for a digital future. The vision of this future includes a growing digital culture, continuous launching of new digital business initiatives, and that we will be a digital leader with vision in the food and agriculture industries.
In May 2019, we established a research site within UIUC's Research Park to further this mission. In its first iteration, we use the site to host digital research projects, such as software, hardware and engineering prototypes that are staffed by student interns from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. As we gain findings from the experience, we will grow and mature our development capabilities within the park to best suit our evolving digital journey.
Having the Right Mentality
We look for students that enjoy startup culture and are adept at working collaboratively within a team. Comfort with ambiguity is a must. Empathy for other functions is essential. Lean approach to build the smallest thing possible is a key to success. We don't expect you to know all things digital, but we do look for students with an appetite to learn new things. Expand your skills in a high growth ag tech industry just a few blocks off campus.
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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.