E-Commerce Merchandise Management Intern - Summer 2024

With more than 50+ years of consecutive growth, we’ve created a dynamic workplace where over 36,000 employees worldwide are empowered to grow and add to our entrepreneurial culture. To support our continued growth, we’re looking to add new talent, like you, to our team! Our people are genuine, creative, and proactive problem solvers who have access to leadership for rapid alignment to make decisions driven by what’s right for our customers.

A Medline internship offers you real-world, hands-on experience where you can make a true impact. Interns take ownership of their projects and get a feel for day-to-day work in their respective roles. In addition to a typical Medline workday, the summer is jam-packed with enriching activities, such as social and networking events, leadership presentations, learning and development opportunities, community service projects, plus so much more. The tangible skillset you’ll build while doing meaningful work will set you apart from your peers.

Covering a variety of business areas and needs, our internships are available to rising seniors in undergraduate programs. Engineered for personal and professional development, our summer program runs for ten weeks from early June through mid-August.

A Merchandise Management Intern at Medline will assist with enhancing the customer experience on Medline at Home (athome.medline.com) through the optimization of onsite product assortment, product content, pricing, product recommendations and category navigation.  The merchandise manager intern will update data feeds such as google shopping.

The challenging responsibilities of the position include:

• Drive online growth by curating and maintaining the online product portfolio to ensuring that content, product attributes, and images are optimized for website traffic and conversion.
• Review and identify product gaps in the online portfolio and work with Medline divisions to find products to fill those gaps.
• Understand, learn and interpret Google Analytics data as it relates to categories and products.
• Utilize Google Search Console to monitor indexing status, keywords and search queries, leveraging the data to improve organic search rankings.
• Manage product feeds for Google and Bing Merchant centers.
• Support pricing strategy activities by conducting pricing analysis, review and improve market data, and present recommendations.
• Conduct market research and leverage SEO tools to identify marketing opportunities and areas of growth.
• Monitor product reviews and provide responses as required with guidance from the merchandise team.
• Review customer feedback to find opportunities to enhance the user experience. 
• Collaborate with product divisions and content teams to share and gain learnings about different product categories.
• Collaborate with digital product managers to make recommendations to improve website features.
• Produce and distribute recurring reporting and ad-hoc analysis.

COVID-19 Vaccination

Please be aware that Medline requires all employees starting in this position to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.  This position will require the successful candidate to provide proof that they are fully vaccinated by their start date.  Medline is an equal opportunity employer, and will provide reasonable accommodations to those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated for COVID-19 consistent with federal, state, and local law.

Qualifications:

• Junior standing with 3.0 minimum GPA preferred
• Previous internship experience in ecommerce, marketing, and/or business preferred
• Active interest in the Healthcare industry preferred
• Excellent organizational, planning, communication and follow-up skills required
• Excellent presentation skills for large and small groups
• Must have strategic, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must have a bias toward action and be results oriented
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite including Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
• Unrestricted permanent US work authorization

Medline’s policy is to employ the best qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, disability, and citizenship status as a veteran with a disability or veteran of the Vietnam Era.