Location(s):
Italy
City/Cities:
Milan
Travel Required:
Relocation Provided:
Job Posting End Date:
April 16, 2025
Shift:
Job Description Summary:
Function Overview at Coca-Cola
The Customer & Commercial Leadership function drives growth by delivering exceptional value to our customers, partners, and consumers. We focus on building strong relationships with customers and executing strategies that support Coca-Cola’s market leadership across the globe.
What will you do as a Coca-Cola Ignite Intern?
Cultivate
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Gain hands-on experience, develop critical skills, and handle complex projects with real business impact.
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Get an opportunity accelerate your career growth within Coca-Cola's global networked organization.
Connect
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Network with leaders and colleagues, learning from their expertise through various engagement opportunities.
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Be part of a vibrant global community of interns and early career professionals, sharing experiences and insights.
Captivate
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Represent Coca-Cola as a campus ambassador in university events, sharing our brand story and values with peers.
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Contribute to meaningful initiatives promoting social impact and sustainability, making a positive impact in our communities.
Key Responsibilities
As a Customer & Commercial Leadership Intern, you will be exposed to Coca-Cola’s commercial and customer-focused strategies. You will help manage customer relationships, optimize sales operations, and ensure Coca-Cola’s products are available and accessible to consumers.
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Assist in managing key customer accounts and relationships.
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Support the execution of promotional and sales strategies.
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Analyze sales performance data to identify growth opportunities and drive results.
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Collaborate with marketing and supply chain teams to ensure seamless execution.
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Help implement sales training and development programs for field teams.
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Support customer negotiations and contribute to business growth.
Requirements
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Educational background: An undergraduate student, pursuing a bachelor's degree, or master’s student, completing a master's degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, or related field.
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Right to work: Legal authorisation to work in Italy. No visa sponsorship is provided.
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Commitment: Must be available to start October 1st 2025 and commit to 37.5 hours/week for a 12 month internship.
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Language: Fluency in English (with strong verbal and written communication skills)
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Attributes: Enthusiasm towards Coca-Cola, its brands and its values. Curious, agile, creative and passionate about learning and making a true impact in a high-performance and diverse environment.
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Relationship skills: Being inclusive, team-oriented, and adept at building relationships.
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Relevant Knowledge: Basic understanding of commercial and strategies as well as market trends. Strategic and critical thinking with a customer centric approach. Good negotiation and persuasion skills. Analytical skills to understand market trends.
Internship Program Allowance
As a Coca-Cola Ignite Intern, your contributions make a real impact - and we highly value that. That’s why you’ll receive an internship allowance to recognize your hard work and dedication.
Skills:
organization
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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What We Do
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a total beverage company, offering over 500 brands in more than 200 countries and territories.
In addition to the company’s Coca-Cola brands, our portfolio includes some of the world’s most valuable beverage brands, such as AdeS soy-based beverages, Ayataka green tea, Dasani waters, Del Valle juices and nectars, Fanta, Georgia coffee, Gold Peak teas and coffees, Honest Tea, innocent smoothies and juices, Minute Maid juices, Powerade sports drinks, Simply juices, smartwater, Sprite, vitaminwater and ZICO coconut water.
