Staples Promotional Products grows brand love in hearts & markets around the world.

Join our talented Staples Promotional Products team where we lead the industry with creating Brand Love through design expertise, the industry’s best technology platforms, supply chain, and logistics network to deliver more authentic, sustainable, and effective brand experiences, worldwide.  Loved brands are authentic, rewarding, and lasting.  We build client relationships the same way.   

This intern position requires you to be in a hybrid working model based at the Staples Promotional Products locations in either St Louis/Orange City/Overland Park, Missouri.

Program Start Date: June 9, 2025

What you’ll be doing:

• The SPP Rotational Program will be a 2-year 1-month program aimed at developing high-potential Staples Promotional Products employees. The program will allow the participants to complete 5, 5-month rotations on different teams over the course of the program.
• This role will have a diverse field of responsibility and work directly with leaders across several internal business functions 
• Participants will be assigned a Talent Management Program Manager and a [Sr Manager/Director] to help guide them through their rotations. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will be placed in a full-time role within our SPP organization.
• The successful participant will be a highly motivated self-starter with a passion for learning and growth, excel at building strong working relationships with peers and leaders, fostering open and active lines of communication.  The individual will be driven to contribute to the success of our team and organization.

Rotation Opportunities:

• Special Order: Hands-on experience will include understanding specific client-based brand guidelines and business objectives, you will specifically source and quote products for client event activities.   Strong project management and coordination through delivery will be learned.
• Merchandising: Hands-on experience will involve learning about assortment analytics and how to build an assortment portfolio to drive client’s goals.  Additional knowledge around products, decoration styles, and techniques as well as technical system training will be acquired. Opportunities to create and view product presentations to clients.
• Account Solutions: Hands-on experience will allow for working with some of the world’s most valuable brands.  In this role, you will learn about the customer and manage and coordinate activities around their e-store, both from product presentations and marketing calendars, as well as support specific contractual requirements of reporting.  Customer engagement will required.  Skills learn to include developing and executing strategies to increase sales volume as well as profit.]
• Marketing: Hands-on experience in client marketing, crafting compelling content, and analyzing results to drive engagement.
• Inside Sales: Support Inside Sales Acct Manager with customer base,  driving increased penetration and sales through digital engagement, and usage of our CRM suite, all while enhancing customer satisfaction and retention through regular customer contact and utilization of internal resources for problem resolution.

What’s needed - Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, merchandising or related field 
• Desire to excel and build a career in SPP
• Flexibility
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Project management skills
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills

Expected Skills to Develop:

• Expanded Project Management Skills
• Analytical skills around assortment planning and marketing strategy development
• Interpersonal selling and negotiation
• Digital communication and customer engagement
• Project management and reporting]

We Offer:

• Inclusive culture with associate-led Business Resource Groups
• Flexible PTO (22 days) and Holiday Schedule (7 observed paid holidays)
• Online and Retail Discounts, Company Match 401(k), Physical and Mental Health Wellness programs, and more  

At Staples, “inclusion” is an action word. It represents what we do to ensure that all employees feel valued and supported to contribute to their fullest potential. When we operate inclusively, diversity naturally follows. This is why we work hard to foster an inclusive culture, as we seek employees with unique and varied perspectives and areas of expertise. The result is a better workplace and innovative thinking that helps us exceed our customers’ expectations -- through the power of the people behind our iconic brand.

Staples is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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