Location: Toronto, Hybrid (preferred)

Hours of work: 15 - 20 hours per week

Internship Length:3 months

About Us: Recently awarded Canada's Best Employers For Recent Graduates, Best Place to Work in Chicago, and Best Leadership Teams, EnsembleIQ is the premier resource of actionable insights and connections powering business growth throughout the path to purchase. We help retail, technology, consumer goods, healthcare, and hospitality professionals make informed decisions and gain a competitive advantage. EnsembleIQ delivers the most trusted business intelligence from leading industry experts, creative marketing solutions, and impactful event experiences that connect best-in-class suppliers and service providers with our vibrant business-building communities. Click here to learn more about our culture, and to learn more about EnsembleIQ, visit ensembleiq.com.

About the role:

Working with our Product of the Year (POY) Canada and Convenience U teams, this is an exciting opportunity to learn best practices in marketing from some of the best industry professionals.

Key Responsibilities:

Build and maintain Product of the Year engagement, especially during the peak sales cycle
Develop social media content, engaging industry professionals with specific POY info posts and industry news around innovation. Ideally, 2 posts/day, minimum 4-5 posts/week
Manage consumer channels, including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, and help launch our new TikTok account, informing customers about new winning products via winners of the week posts. Connecting with winning social media marketing to collect assets for posting.
Utilize the POY’s IG page to stay abreast of new product launches in CPG, maintain an ongoing list of those new launches, follow potential new CPG client pages, like posts, and also engage in increasing our IG following
Assist in building engagement at the Convenience U Show, promote innovations featured at the show, and help feed the prospective entry pipeline for the 2024 POYC Awards program.

Current enrollment in, or recent graduate of, an undergraduate program in a related field, including social media relations, marketing, or public relations
Experience managing or leading community-building efforts on major social media platforms (FB, LI, Twitter) and/or growing a personal or business social media channel.
Comfortable using digital tools to create and edit photos and videos that engage the audience
Interest in “learning by doing,” especially related to digital engagement analytics, PR-related topics, and other key corporate marketing responsibilities
Proactive, excellent communication skills (both written and verbal), and outstanding organizational skills
Ability to work effectively both independently and in a team environment.
Samples of personal or business social media with engaging insights (*please ensure @username, links and/or reference videos are included in your application)

What’s in it for You?

Join the world's largest consumer-voted product innovation award team.
Develop your B2B and B2C social media strategy skills and track and report engagement results.
Learn about CPG, beauty, grocery, and convenience businesses and product innovation.
Work with the leadership team to develop an enhanced social media strategy.
Strengthen your multi-channel social media content managerial skills.

Check out what it's like to work at EnsembleIQ

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EnsembleIQ is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion. We provide accommodations at all stages through recruitment and employment in accordance with Human Rights and accommodation legislation upon request.

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