The primary focus for the student will be:

• Strategy - Develop an implementation plan for entering a new market for various for an e-commerce, licensed producers and cultivators; develop a go-to-market strategy; identify new funding and grant opportunities, write proposals.
• Operations - Recommend process improvements or redesign processes; develop improvements to supply chain processes; introduce quality assurance into our internal processes.
• Marketing - Complete a full customer, competitor, market, and environmental analysis; complete a marketing strategy review; design a new marketing strategy (product, place, price, and promotion), and social media content.
• Sales - Design a new/improved prospecting process for our sales team; design a new/improved pricing or service structure.
• Talent - Design a new/improved recruitment process; develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; design a new/improved employee engagement program.

Our goal at the end of this experience is:

• Strategy - For the student(s) to help us capture increased market share; for the student(s) to help us capture new revenue streams; for the student(s) to help us secure new funding.
• Operations - For the student(s) to help us implement more efficient and effective processes that maximize employee performance/customer satisfaction.
• Marketing - For the student(s) to help us reach more customers, effectively promote our brand, mission, and story.
• Sales - For the student(s) to help us roll-out better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales.
• Talent - For the student(s) to help us build and maintain a productive, diverse, and engaged team.

Students will work closely with the primary project manager who is supervising and available for questions. This will also include occasional progress meetings where adjustments to the students' tasks and duties can be made if necessary.

We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Basecamp, Gmail

Student's primary contact: Margarete Otto, Senior Project Manager

Secondary contact: Alex Douramakos, Project Manager