eCommerce Merchandising Search Intern - Fall 2026

About the position

As an intern at Imperial, we’ll help you design an experience that meets your learning objectives while helping you explore how the areas of our business relate and interact. You’ll enjoy a variety of day-to-day work assignments, cross-functional meetings, exposure to executive leadership, and soft skill development. Imperial Supplies is a growing distributor of fleet maintenance products. We’ve been based in Green Bay since 1958 and have a strong history of double-digit annual growth! Under general supervision, the Merchandising Intern will create, maintain, and analyze various brand category, and item pages on the Imperial website, ensuring merchandising goals and strategies are achieved. Focus on increasing digital topline sales through optimizing conversation, profitability, and overall site experience.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate newly authored products to ensure data completion prior to publishing product online.
  • Review attributes, technical specification, product descriptions and Unit of Measures for consistency and accuracy.
  • Scrutinizes product information for accuracy, communicating with appropriate parties to ensure data is correct; makes changes to correct inaccurate product information as needed.
  • Determine optimal category specific merchandising via visual attribution content, guided filter content, establish parent/child and product family relationships for assigned category.
  • Determine and execute category specific taxonomy for assigned product categories.
  • Establish partnerships with the ecommerce team to support the following: SEO Efforts as needed (category nomenclature and optimization), Onsite search efforts as needed (category nomenclature, keywords, redirects).
  • Define and establish product relationships: required items, related items, and replacement parts.
  • Research and benchmark competitive shopping experiences and stay current with ecommerce, market, and industry trends.

Requirements

  • Minimum education: course of study in marketing, business, or equivalent related experience
  • Minimum experience: exposure to merchandising, eCommerce, or marketing with a demonstrated understanding of product merchandising
  • Skills: Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Intermediate to Advance Excel Skills.
  • Ability to multi-task.
  • Self-motivated and results oriented.
  • Excellent attention to detail.
  • High level of initiative and organization, with the ability to manage ambiguity, risk, uncertainty and changing directions.

Benefits

  • Paid internship during Fall 2026
  • Duration of 12 weeks, up to 20 hours per week depending on student interest and availability
  • Willing to provide supporting documentation for students seeking school credit
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