Project briefs · Marketing & Sales
Dow · Summer 2027
Sales Intern: a project built for this posting
A summer sales internship at Dow's Midland headquarters for rising juniors and seniors in business or technical majors, built around a mentored project with a commercial team. Strong interns can be considered for Dow's Commercial Development Program for Sales after graduation.
- Company
- Dow
- Posting title
- 2026-2027 Campus Internship - Sales
- Location
- Midland, MI
- Season
- Summer 2027
- Majors named
- Business, Sales, Marketing, Chemistry, Materials Science, Engineering
Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-21. Read the full posting ↗
What this role is really testing
The project
Dow Specialty Materials: One-Page Sales Brief for a Target Customer Segment
A polished, one-page sales brief that identifies a real industry vertical Dow serves (e.g., packaging, automotive, construction), defines a specific customer pain point, and maps it to a relevant Dow product line with a clear value proposition, competitive angle, and recommended next step. This mirrors exactly what a junior sales rep or commercial development associate would produce when preparing for a customer meeting, demonstrating business acumen, structured thinking, and professional communication in a format a recruiter can read in thirty seconds.
- Research one Dow business segment (e.g., Packaging & Specialty Plastics, Performance Silicones, or Coatings) using Dow's public website and one or two industry news sources. Identify a specific, named customer type (e.g., flexible packaging manufacturer, EV battery supplier) and write two to three sentences articulating their primary business pressure, cost, regulation, performance, or sustainability, grounding it in a real market trend with a cited stat or headline.
- Build the one-page brief in Google Docs or PowerPoint using four clearly labeled sections: Customer Snapshot (who they are, what they make, what keeps them up at night), Dow's Solution (the specific product or platform and the technical or commercial benefit it delivers), Value Proof (one quantified or directional outcome, cost saved, waste reduced, performance gained, drawn from Dow's published case studies or sustainability reports), and Recommended Outreach Angle (a single sentence on how a sales rep should open the conversation). Keep every section to three lines or fewer so the document breathes.
- Add a professional header with your name, the target segment name, and the date, then export the document as a PDF. Review it against one test: could a Dow account manager hand this to a prospect without editing it? Tighten any jargon, confirm every claim links to a real source in a small footnote, and make sure the visual hierarchy, font size, bold labels, white space, guides the eye from problem to solution to action in under sixty seconds.
Free account. Provieo walks you through it and turns it into a page with a link you can put on your application. This posting comes with you.
Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.
Where did this project come from?
Provieo read the Dow posting and generated it on 2026-10-21. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.
Is Provieo connected to Dow?
No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.