Work
Overview
I interned with Meijer, a top-15 privately held U.S. retailer, as part of their Summer Merchandising Internship Program, embedded in the Hard Home department — cookware, small kitchen appliances and cooking gadgets — at Corporate HQ.
As an intern, I:
- Audited internal navigation and cross-department communication workflows by shadowing full-time employees across merchandising, marketing and category management teams
- Analyzed consumer analytics and physical store mock-ups to identify and define a clear problem statement for the Hard Home category
- Partnered with a multidisciplinary intern cohort — spanning design, business and analytics backgrounds — to bring an outside-in perspective to department initiatives
- Developed a data-backed, multi-stage merchandising strategy and rollout timeline, presenting findings and recommendations directly to C-level executives
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