About Us

ConAgra Foods makes the food you love. Banquet®, Chef Boyardee®, Healthy Choice®, Hunt’s®, Marie Callender’s®, Orville Redenbacher’s®, PAM®, Peter Pan®, Reddi-wip® and more. As one of the country’s leading food companies with $12.7 billion in net sales, ConAgra Foods’ brands are found in 97 percent of U.S. households. Twenty-four of these brands are No. 1 or No. 2 in their categories. ConAgra Foods also has a very significant presence in commercial food products and is a top provider of specialty potato products to restaurants and other foodservice establishments.

As a Fortune 500 company with 25,000 employees across the country and around the world, the opportunities are vast. Careers and internships include:


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Mission

One company. One goal. Making the food you love.

Operating Principles

Simplicity - we do less of what doesn’t matter, and more of what really does.

Collaboration - we trust and respect our people. We proactively align on execution to get to the best result, faster.

Accountability - we keep our promises. We align on very specific goals, objectives and strategies.

People

ConAgra Foods is committed to nourishing our people to attract, retain, engage and diversify talent to drive success. We’re creating a culture of development where you can discover your talents and advance your skills. Our talent management program clearly defines and aligns business needs with the individual career aspirations of our employees.

In addition to expanding employees’ knowledge, our learning and development programs help give our employees the opportunity to advance. Last year, we promoted more than 750 employees from within. You could be next.

Six Employee Resource Network groups offer professional development and mentoring opportunities. These groups include:

• Young Professionals Network (YPN)
• ConAgra Asian Network (CAN)
• ConAgra Black Employee Network (CBEN)
• ConAgra Latino Network (CLN)
• Women’s Leadership Council (WLC)
• Illuminations - GLBT employees and allies

Products

We specialize in food that Americans have loved for generations, and we’re always creating new recipes and innovations for the next generation. 14 of our brands generate more than 100 million in sales each year.

At the heart of our business is the food people want in their lives every day. Food like Healthy Choice® meals and entrees, Lamb Weston® potatoes, Orville Redenbacher’s® popcorn, Hunt’s® tomatoes, and Banquet® dinners. Food that’s delicious, innovative, convenient, nutritious, trusted.

Our strategic plan serves as a roadmap to sustainable, profitable growth and leverages five areas of competitive advantage: Convenient Meals, Potatoes, Snacks, Meal Enhancers and Specialty.

Locations

The world headquarters for ConAgra Foods is in Omaha, Neb. Other key office locations include Naperville, Ill, Edina, Minn. and Kennewick, Wash. We also have more than 90 manufacturing plants located across the country and sales offices strategically located to best meet our customers’ needs. Main sales locations are: Bentonville, Ark., Pleasanton, Calif., Cincinnati, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio and Boston, Mass.

Benefits

WorkPerks brings together programs - pay, benefits, work environment and learning and development - that help make ConAgra Foods a leading employer. The programs vary by location, but our philosophy never wavers.

Our comprehensive benefits package includes: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, pretax spending accounts, pension plans, 401(k) and a stock purchase plan. Not to mention 10 paid holidays on an annual basis and a generous vacation time package.

• Tuition reimbursement
• Company stores
• On-site fitness facilities and classes
• On-site cafeterias
• 15 days of paid vacation annually
• Summer hours (office locations close at 1 p.m. Memorial Day through Labor Day)
• Services for new parents
• Paternity leave
• Adoption assistance
• Same-sex/domestic partner benefits
• Volunteer opportunities
• Free parking

Innovation

We focus on breakthrough technologies and platform innovations. In just its first year, Healthy Choice® Café Steamers ^TM meals delivered over $100 million in sales and were crowned the No. 1 new food product for 2008 by Information Resources, Inc. (IRI). We’re also the first company in North America using post-consumer recycled plastic in our frozen meal trays, diverting 8 million pounds of plastic from landfills each year.

Corporate Responsibility

Corporate responsibility is at the core of all we do, and we’re dedicated to improving not only what we make, but how we make it. From innovative packaging to energy- and water-efficiency projects, we’ve demonstrated that sustainability is a key component to exceptional manufacturing processes.

ConAgra Foods’ partnership with Feeding America (the nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief charity) is the largest corporate initiative in the U.S. solely dedicated to fighting child hunger. Over the past 15 years, we’ve donated more than 200 million pounds of food and invested more than $27 million as the first company to comprehensively fund child hunger programs nationwide.