Own Brand Intern – Sustainability And Packaging

Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.

Every day we feed one in three people in Ireland through 11 market leading food and beverage brands that include SuperValu, Centra, Frank and Honest and Musgrave MarketPlace.

We support thousands of retail and foodservice family businesses who live and work in the heart of the communities they serve.

We are committed to becoming the most trusted and sustainable business in Ireland and we are making changes across the company to make sure that happens. We want to make a positive impact on the world and we will support our suppliers and customers to make a difference too.

Our people are the heart of our business. As our greatest asset, they make Musgrave a great place to work and in return we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive. We have an opportunity for a Student Intern to join our Own Brand team.

The Own Brand Team is part of the Trading department. The team is made up of Head of Own Brand, Own Brand Manager, OB Operations and Own Brand Development Team. This position would provide valuable work experience to a student including the opportunity to develop communication, organisational, reporting and inter-personal skills. You will experience the process involved in creating Own Brand Vs Branded goods

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

• As part of the Musgrave sustainability objective to reduce plastics by 50% we are looking to recruit an intern who can support this sustainability business agenda.
• Support the Own Brand sourcing process E2E to achieve the reduction outcomes (e.g. specify packaging improvements as part of Tender & Supplier Selection Process and govern outcomes).
• Ability to review legislative changes to ensure Musgrave are compliant.
• Research best in class packaging & keep OB team up to date with latest packaging news and trends.
• Manage annual packaging reduction plans and progress reporting.
• Work alongside product developers/technologists on packaging data sheets and packaging selection.
• Liaise with packaging expert/consultant on team packaging guidelines, information and training.
• Communicate Musgrave packaging targets with suppliers and continue engagement on sustainable packaging through the Sustainability Hub

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• studying a third level qualification in a Food/Marketing related discipline.
• Ideal candidate to be highly organized and have an ability to work well as part of team as well as being able to work on own initiative.
• Strong MS Excel skills essential

• Team player and good at Multitasking
• Flexible /Ability to prioritize and manage various requests
• Work in a fast paced environment

Living the Musgrave Values

• Honesty
• Achievement
• Long Term Stable Relationships
• Working Hard
• Not being Greedy

Musgrave is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from diverse candidates. If we can make any accommodations to enable you to be the best version of yourself during the interview, please let us know.