MBA Summer Associate - Corporate Strategy

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas’® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann’s® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

Bimbo Bakeries USA is part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company with operations in 32 countries. Bimbo Bakeries USA (“BBUSA”) includes BBUSA and its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, including, but not limited to, Wholesome Harvest Baking, East Balt, and Acelerada. BBUSA employs 20,000 associates across the U.S. in bakeries, sales centers, corporate offices and on sales routes to ensure our consumers have the freshest products to feed their families at every meal. But our associates come to work for much more – the chance to feed their own lives through exciting work that offers the opportunity to make a real difference in their professional and personal lives every day.

The Corporate Strategy team sits with the new Acelerada Business Unit.  In Spanish, Acelerada means “to move faster” and “impatience”, which is an appropriate name for this new business unit! It is our purpose to transform and disrupt the bakery and snack industries through new go-to market strategies, embracing new channels of distribution, developing new approaches to the business, and through the use of technology. The Corporate Strategy team collaborates with Acelerada and the core BBUSA business and brands to solve cross-functional challenges.

What we’re looking for:

Do ideas excite you?  Do you like problem solving?  Are you a connecter with strong intuition? When you see a blank sheet of paper, do you feel energized or paralyzed? 

We are building something new and are looking for results-driven, creative people who like to win as a team.  Positive attitude in the face of adversity is paramount.  Must be able to sell ideas and get things done.  Have proven business acumen.  Oh, and no lone rangers here – we win as a team or lose as a team.

Are you up for the challenge? We are looking for an MBA Summer Associate in Corporate Strategy to solve well-defined strategic problems within new industry categories, marketing, sales and/or operations.

The program will provide the following opportunities:

• Meaningful project work. Projects will have a well-defined strategic goal and produce actionable results that are integral to the business. Past projects include strategic market analysis and entry strategy, asset strategy and financial modeling, and product portfolio/pricing optimization.
• Exposure to company operations. Summer Associates will have opportunities to experience BBU's ground-level operations, including visits to commercial bakeries, sales/delivery route rides and retailer market tours. 
• Access to senior executives. Summer Associates will interact with senior executives throughout the company and present their project analysis and recommendations to C-level executives.