Taste the Local Difference is a women-owned local food marketing agency specializing in effective strategies for agriculture, food, and beverage producers. We believe in uplifting these purpose-driven and passionate entrepreneurs to tell their stories, find loyal customers, and build successful, well-connected businesses.
Location: Remote
Data Integrity Management Intern
At Taste the Local Difference, building authentic relationships is key to our mission. Data accuracy and integrity across all of our platforms are essential to maintaining relationships with our partners. The Data Integrity Management Intern would be responsible for supporting the TLD staff in various projects that ensure accurate partner data across TLD’s CRM (Nutshell), E-Commerce Site (WordPress/WooCommerce), and Accounting Software (Quickbooks). Beyond data management, this individual will have the opportunity to gain additional professional and personal development in project management, communication, and local food systems.
Responsibilities
- Update, organize and clean the TLD Find Food & Farm Database, ensuring that partners are correctly marked as paid, business information is up to date, and tags and labels are accurate.
- Conduct research on food and farm businesses outside of Michigan, and support the team in bulk uploading this data to Nutshell, TLD’s CRM.
- Update, organize, and clean contacts, marketing audiences and companies in Nutshell, TLD’s CRM, to ensure data accuracy amongst TLD’s food and farm partners.
- Support and brainstorm creative procedures and systems to ensure data accuracy across Quickbooks, Nutshell & WooCommerce through research on app integrations and data management.
Professional Development Benefits
- Opportunity to attend TLD weekly meetings as well as the weekly Sales Team Meetings, which include professional development topics such as conversations with strategic partners, deep dives on various software and platforms, and sales and business strategies.
- 30-minute 1:1s with each member of the TLD team to network and learn more about their role
- If travel funding is available through an educational internship, the opportunity to travel to our annual in-person gathering in September in West Michigan OR attend another Local Food Guide release party event in the summer.
Qualifications
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience working with databases
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work as a part of a team
- Quick learner
- Self-directed and comfortable with remote-based work
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- An interest in local food systems
Compensation
- Interested students are encouraged to pursue APEX fellowship funding for this internship