Digital Merchandising 2025 Summer Internship (Full Time/Paid/Hybrid) - Ace Hardware Corporation

Compensation Details:

$22.00 per hour

Why should you join our team?

We live our values - W.E.L.I.G.H.T (Winning, Excellence, Love, Integrity, Gratitude, Humility, and Teamwork). Gratitude. Humility. Love. You don’t often see values like these in most corporate statements, but Ace is different. These things are important to us. They represent our commitment to the company, our employees, to Ace retailers and to the Ace brand.

Job Description:

Digital Merchandising 2025 Summer Internship (Full Time/Paid/Hybrid)

About This Role

As a digital merchandising intern, you will have direct impact on acehardware.com and the App. You will be responsible for merchandising products and pages on the digital touch points, provide promotional planning support, liaison with our store owners /retailers and have special projects of your own!

Your primary focus as an E-Commerce/Digital Merchandising Intern will be in the following areas:

Digital Merchandising on acehardware.com

• Support digital merchant team with category ownership and product online merchandising
• Improve product Findability; through Search & Browse optimization activities
• Review revenue & web behavior metrics to generate data driven insights & actions
• Kibo Admin tool- basic site merchandising practices including the creation of categories, discounts, product ranking rules
• Optimize the assortment via new item and existing item maintenance
• Responsible for ideation and edits throughout on-site and off site creative process including homepage, email and marketing creative
• Responsible for product content- work with vendor and content team for goal of A+ content
• Analyze the ecommerce market to develop understandings of market trends and competitors’ strengths, weaknesses and strategies

Promotional Planning Support

• Assist in solicitation and maintenance of monthly promotional items from vendors and Merchants
• Support in organizing and securing all promo offers- pricing, offer, credits
• Partner closely with digital marketing team to drive traffic and channel effectiveness for Paid Search, Affiliate, Email, SEO, Retargeting, Etc.

Other

• Learn to read, digest and act upon data and insights
• Retailer and customer
• Special projects and audits

Who You Are

You are digitally savvy, have a passion for customer experience and find data interesting. You are flexible and thrive in a fast paced environment. Self started who is motivated by growth is a plus!

Required Skills

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in the following area(s): Marketing, Digital Marketing, Visual or Fashion Merchandising and/or Business Administration (Graduating December ’25 or May ‘26)
• Basic understanding of financials and operations of a business
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Adaptability and ability to learn quickly in high-pressure environments
• Ability to work 40 hours per week, Monday -Friday for 12 weeks (July 4th Holiday is a non-working day)

Preferred Skills

• Retail/customer service experience (Sales, visual merchandising, retail pricing a plus)
• Experience with MS Office (Word, Excel Power Point)
• Knowledge and interest in Ace Hardware Corporation

Why Ace?

From the start of your Ace Hardware career, you’ll appreciate why we’re known as “The Helpful Place.” Helpful means living the Ace values: winning, excellence, love, integrity, gratitude, humility, and teamwork. Helpful is the key to our success and is ingrained in everything we do. We are stronger together and work as ONE to be the helpful place across our communities, retail stores, retail support centers and corporate offices. Join us and share our passion for making a positive impact on every customer we touch.

At Ace Hardware, we support our retailers and the community at large. We believe our teams are our most important assets and offer work-life balance, promotion from within, and such competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision, generous 401(k) contributions, great vacation allocation, holiday pay, and tuition reimbursement. If you’re looking for an employer that wants to help you live your best life, apply with Ace today.

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When most people think of career opportunities with Ace Hardware, they often think of the helpful cashiers and sales associates at their local store. However, have you also considered the people behind the scenes who select, promote, ship and process the invoices for more than 75,000 products? Maybe you haven't, but we'd like you to. Because together we help our customers take care of their homes. Come find out why a career with the Ace Hardware Corporation is one of America's best kept secrets.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Ace Hardware Corporation is committed to a policy of promoting equal employment opportunities. The company recognizes the importance of diversity and leveraging the skills and talents of all people to the mutual advantage of each individual and the organization. The company is committed to the prevention of employment discrimination related to race, religion, color, sex (including sexual harassment), gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, disability and military or veteran status, sexual orientation or any other action covered by federal or applicable state/local laws.

Disclaimer

The pay range for this position starts as listed in the job posting, but could be higher based on education and experience. Please note, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each opening. We take into consideration the minimum requirements outlined in the job description, such as an individual’s education, training and experience, the position’s work location, required travel (if any), and external market conditions when determining the final salary for potential new hires.

Be aware that salary estimates published via alternate online job boards may not be a true representation of the actual pay range offered for this position. Please refer to the Ace position description for the accurate starting pay range information and feel free to discuss this with a Talent Acquisition professional if you are chosen to move forward with an interview.

This written “Position Description” is not intended to cover all aspects of the position listed. It is meant to cover the basic/general essential job functions of a particular position. Ace Hardware Corporation reserves the right to change job duties, including essential job functions, according to business necessity.

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