Sales & Marketing Leadership Development Program

Job Description

Sales & Marketing Leadership Development Program | Kerry

The Tone:
This is a full-time, 24-month graduate rotational program at Kerry, located in the United States. Kerry is the world’s leading taste and nutrition company, obsessed with food and aiming to provide 2 billion people access to more sustainable nutrition. This program offers early career talent the opportunity to build future leaders, learn, contribute, and grow within Kerry’s global taste and nutrition organization. A career with Kerry offers the chance to shape the future of food while exploring and growing in a truly global environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: United States
• Pay: $65000–$70000 yearly
• Mission: Develop future commercial leaders by building foundational experience across customer engagement, market activation, commercial strategy, and business growth.
• Tech Stack: Salesforce.com, CRM platforms, digital lead management tools, syndicated data systems, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Commercial Acumen & Business Growth: Build an understanding of Kerry’s commercial model, customer priorities, market dynamics, and support growth initiatives contributing to business growth.
• Sales & Customer Engagement: Develop foundational capabilities in customer relationship management, account planning, value selling, and cross-functional solution development.
• Marketing & Market Activation: Gain exposure to brand, category, customer, and market strategies that support Kerry’s value proposition and create customer-facing materials.
• Insights, Analytics & Strategic Thinking: Conduct analysis on customer performance and market trends to identify insights and provide clear recommendations for commercial decision-making.
• Leadership, Collaboration & Development: Participate in a 24-month rotational program and actively engage in development activities, feedback conversations, networking, and learning experiences.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Pursuing a bachelor’s degree from a four-year accredited college or university in Business, Marketing, Sales, Economics, Food Science, Psychology, Communications, Market Research, or a related field, with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and May 2027. Entry-level.
• Experience: No prior professional experience explicitly required; focuses on academic pursuit. Interest in building commercial capabilities across sales, marketing, customer engagement, value selling, market activation, and business growth.
• Skills: Strong communication, presentation, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills. Ability to think strategically and tactically, solve business challenges, and translate insights into recommendations. Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with curiosity about customers, brands, markets, and the food and beverage industry. Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently and collaboratively, and deliver high-quality work. Demonstrated initiative, accountability, ownership, and adaptability.
• Bonus: Experience with Salesforce.com, CRM platforms, digital lead management tools, or syndicated data systems, or a strong appetite to learn them. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Expected travel up to 20% depending on business needs and program stage.