Job Description

About Zespri

Zespri is the world’s largest marketer of kiwifruit with over 800 people in New Zealand and throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas.
We help people, communities and the environment thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit. We sit at the heart of an interconnected industry working with 2,800 growers in New Zealand and 1,500 growers in Italy, France, Greece, South Korea and Japan. We supply the world’s healthiest little superfruits to people in more than 50 countries. We are fruit on a mission.
Our values are at the heart of everything we do. We commit to guardianship; putting people, the community, and the environment first. We are results-driven, challenging ourselves to grow and deliver better value. We cultivate personal connections, listening and acting with empathy and humility – and treating each other better for it.
We are growing quickly, driven by our success in engaging more and more consumers and by offering the world’s best kiwifruit 12 months of the year. We have bold ambitions and aim to grow sales from approximately $3 billion in 2018 to $4.5 billion by 2025.
To achieve our goals, we’re empowering our people to achieve their goals, designing our work for wellbeing, through flexible work practices and self-leadership.
We have bold ambitions for the future and we want all of our people to live and perform at their best.

About The Role

Zespri is more than simply the world’s single-largest marketer of kiwifruit. We like to think of ourselves as fruit on a mission and as rebels with a cause: to help people, communities and the environment around the world thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit.

We supply one of the world’s healthiest little superfruits to millions of people around the world in more than 50 markets. We are one of New Zealand’s best-known international brands, dedicated to creating sustainable long-term value for growers.

We’re a diverse, passionate team built on shared values: on nurturing the personal connections, on challenging ourselves to think big and deliver better, and on acting as guardians for our people, the community and the land.

Based in Singapore, the Global Brand Development Intern will report to the Global Brand Development Manager and the Global Head of Brand development , together with the project team to deliver a globally meaningful and different Zespri brand, and reflects our ambition to become one of the top 20 food brands in the world.

Accountabilities

The role is for an intern to help facilitate the quality and timely implementation of upcoming Global Brand development projects.
The focus areas for 2022 would be on setting up the foundations for the launch of the Brand’s Cause in 2023.
The Brand’s Cause is defined as the way that the Brand will take action to bring to life it s Purpose of helping people, communities and the environment Thrive through the goodness of kiwifruit.

The 2 projects the intern will work on are under the Brand Thrust of Building a globally meaningful and different brand, and they are :

• Project management for creating, and cascading the refreshed Brand Communications Platform. From ideation, research to brand toolkit for internal teams and agencies. The Brand Communications Platform will be the key tool for markets in our roadmap to build meaningful communication around the Brand’s Purpose and Brand’s Cause.

• Designing and executing the architecture of the Global Brand Assets library, including planning the cascade and training for the markets and agencies.

Qualifications & Experience

• Fresh Graduate or University Undergraduate with a passion for brand management and marketing
• Ability to commit a minimum of 4 months’ full-time employment for the role
• Detail-oriented with the ability to follow - through projects and manage timelines
• Results -oriented and a self-starter with good analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• A great team-player with good interpersonal skills and personal integrity
• Excellent communicator with good written English and oral skills. Proficiency in spoken or/and written Mandarin, Japanese or other languages would be a plus

What's In It For You

• Competitive overall remuneration package, including a Short-Term Incentive scheme opportunity.
• FlexWELL flexible work ethos
• Additional paid annual leave day per year (Zespri Day).
• Additional paid volunteer day to volunteer within your community (Volunteer Time).
• Global Life and Permanent Disability Insurance.
• Group Medical Insurance benefits.

Agency

Zespri will not accept applications or contact from any temporary staffing agency, placement service or professional recruiter for this vacancy (“Agency”).
Where Zespri requires the support of an agency to fulfil a vacancy, we will proactively seek this support from our network of Agencies. We respectfully ask that you do not contact Zespri or any of its affiliates/employees regarding vacancies, and reserve the right not to reply.
Zespri will not be responsible for, and will not pay, any fees, commissions or other payments related to such unsolicited resumes.