Business Development Internship

Closed
Speedy Snacks
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Founder & CEO
(2)
3
Project
Academic experience
80 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Market research Operations Project management Digital marketing Product or service launch
Skills
slack (software) content management project management google maps business development market research web analytics social media
Details

Speedy Snacks is a growing startup that experiences new challenges every other day. We're offering a virtual internship opportunity for a student to learn how the business operates from bottom to top in order to find ways to make things more efficient, automate tasks, and grow the business.

Students complete work in the following areas:

  • Content management - Edit product images and write descriptions.
  • Market Research - Identify new locations for expansion. Products & pricing.
  • Marketing/Social Media - Post content to social media
  • Project Management - Weekly meetings and join slack channel for a variety of software projects currently under development. (CMS, Website, Analytics, Fulfillment Partner App)
  • Business Development - Learn how we partner with new fulfilment locations, delivery partners, and everything that pops up in order to identify ways to improve our systems and processes
Deliverables

In order to achieve the project goal the student will need to:

  • Add new content to our database. Cropping images & writing creative copy.
  • Edit content on our delivery partners systems.
  • Learn how partner applications work
  • Use Google Maps to identify and rate potential fulfilment locations in new markets.
  • Post content to social media

Mentorship

We are remote company with team members all over the world who work fast. I make myself available to all team members whenever it works best for them in order to move the project forward with speed and agility. I will be available via telephone, video conference, email, or messaging platform of the students choosing to assist with any issues or provide input they made need.

The student will be aware of most business operations and will attend meetings with fulfilment & delivery partners, developers, and other team members. I will always be available to discuss the project, provide feedback & input, and and help with anything the student requires.

About the company

Company
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2 - 10 employees
Food & beverage, Marketing & advertising

Speedy Snacks is expanding across Canada. We have developed technology to track advertising, drive sales, and deliver product to consumers helping convenience stores and other small businesses earn additional revenue. We create & deploy social media and ad campaigns to drive sales and partner with independent convenience store operators and third party food delivery apps to fill and deliver orders. We track ad spends, social media campaigns, and product sales to calculate the most profitable products to promote and ad campaigns to run.