Marketing Intern - Des Moines, Iowa

Creating Solutions. Building Business Relationships. 

As a Marketing Intern, you will provide support for, and gain experience in, customer relationship management (CRM), email marketing, and digital marketing services. This summer internship in Des Moines, Iowa will allow you to showcase your Adobe Creative Suite expertise while gaining business marketing experience. 

What’s more? At VGM Group, we are 100% employee owned. Click to view more about VGM! 

Reporting Accountability: Director of Marketing 

Working Location: On-site daily in Des Moines, Iowa 

Working Hours Classification: Full-Time Internship for a 3-month summer internship duration. As an intern, you can expect to work full-time hours, 8am-5pm CST Monday-Friday, over the summer months. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Support production design needs: 
  • Update templated marketing materials 
  • Assist with external and internal campaign assets
• Assist with maintaining and updating customer and prospect data within the CRM system 
• Monitor CRM data quality and perform routine maintenance tasks to ensure data is clean and updated 
• Support lead management workflows by ensuring proper routing and documentation 
• Analyze market and customer data and run reports to support marketing and sales teams 
• Support with the creation, scheduling, and sending of email campaigns using marketing tools 
• Build and edit email templates, ensuring brand alignment and strong user experience 
• Track email marketing performance metrics, identify trends, and recommend optimizations to improve engagement and deliverability 
• Perform tasks to support marketing strategy and branding 
• Provide account marketing and stewardship support 
• Perform email marketing, social media, and basic design tasks to support the marketing team
• Organize, maintain, and update digital marketing asset infrastructure
• Support marketing team event initiatives by assisting with event preparation, organizing marketing materials, and supporting pre‑ and post‑event activations
• Complete other duties and projects as assigned by leadership

Key Qualifications:

Education and experience:

• Experience and strong foundational knowledge in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop)
• A portfolio of the graphic design and marketing work you have designed and created
• High school diploma/GED required
• Current student at a 2-or-4-year college or university preferred 
• Must comply with continuing education per Company, Regulatory, Contractual, and Accreditation requirements’

Skills and competencies:

• Strong collaboration skills and attention to detail 
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage time effectively and efficiently 
• Interest in healthcare, workers’ compensation, or related industries a plus

Physical Requirements:  

• Operation of office equipment and using technology efficiently such as computers, phones, misc. office equipment        
• Visual abilities to include reading, distance vision and peripheral vision  
• Moving throughout the VGM facilities when needed. 

This internship will work specifically within HOMELINK, a business unit within the VGM group of businesses. Learn more about HOMELINK here: 

HOMELINK, a business unit within VGM Group’s family of businesses, is an innovative national provider of integrated specialty services for the healthcare and workers’ compensation industries. HOMELINK provides a comprehensive offering of ancillary care products and services, including advanced clinical programs, and partners with both payers and providers. As a privately held, employee-owned company, HOMELINK team members are committed to delivering high quality service from referral to resolution. To learn more about VGM HOMELINK, visit our website at www.vgmhomelink.com. As a marketing intern within HOMELINK one will gain valuable work experience in a professional environment, leveraging prior experience, education, and involvement. Our interns play an essential role in the departments they are part of, working on important responsibilities, special projects, and networking with our teams.

Learn more about VGM Group, Inc.:

Headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa, VGM is a 100% employee-owned company providing business and professional services to thousands of business customers across North America. Services include group purchasing, commercial insurance, management of healthcare services and networks in post-acute cases, healthcare distribution direct to patient homes, specialty consulting, online education, digital, print, and traditional marketing and more. VGM employs approximately 1,700 people across 40 states and Canada, with more than 1,100 working in Iowa. VGM has been named the Top Workplace in Iowa on multiple occasions and is proud of its role in the communities in which it serves. For more information visit www.vgmgroup.com. 

This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.

VGM Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, pregnancy, national origin, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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