2025 Summer Intern: Strategic Procurement Specialist
At a Glance
- You’re a motivated rising senior student with a 3.0 GPA or higher seeking a degree in one of the following areas listed below from an accredited college or university:
- Supply Chain Management
- This is a learning-intensive program designed to give you essential business insights and hands-on experience in your field of choice. It’s a full-time, 10-week commitment from May 28, 2025 through August 1, 2025.
- Benefits include professional development sessions, networking opportunities, and mentorship.
The Spectrum Internship Experience
You have clear aspirations and are seeking a summer internship program that will help you meet them. Find it at Spectrum, named one of the 2023 Top 100 Internship Programs in the United States by WayUp and Yello.
Our internships are designed to provide:
- Opportunities to gain new skills and elevate the ones you already have, all in a robust and forward-thinking business setting.
- First-rate, hands-on experience in the telecommunications industry.
- Opportunities to connect you with people who can give you a better understanding of the industry and help you accomplish real goals you can add to your résumé, this includes assigning you a formal mentor and interactions with senior executives.
What you can expect in this role
As a Spectrum Intern, you’ll be essential to two teams — your respective department and your Intern peer group. Department and team-focused projects account for about 80% of your schedule. You’ll spend the other 20% on professional development sessions and networking activities, including the Kickoff Conference on May 28th, webinars, community service, cross-functional project, and final presentations.
Internship responsibilities may include
Sourcing projects – As an intern, you will be afforded the opportunity to work independently and within a team on different projects to leverage your knowledge while also being exposed to many procurement roles. Some key activities include:
- RFx – Procurement will look to engage the intern in an RFx process where they collaborate with a Procurement Manager through requirements gathering, RFx issuance, negotiations, analysis, and award. This will provide a look into Charter’s procurement process, allowing them to think strategically throughout the process and provide them the opportunity to bring new ideas and perspective.
- Improving Reporting and Analysis Capabilities – Service contracts are implemented across all business units without a central repository of rate card information. The intern will collect negotiated and contracted rates for service and materials and consolidate this information in a way that allows for competitive benchmarking, performance management, and pricing comparison across regions and business units.
- Assessment/Validation of Contract rates – With the large number of contracts across the organization, discrepancies between what is stated in our contracts and what is listed on purchase orders to vendors occasionally occur. Auditing and identifying these discrepancies is crucial in ensuring that we are not overpaying for services. The intern will analyze invoice data from key suppliers to ensure compliance with contracted terms.
- Technology Sourcing – An advantage of working at Charter is that we have cutting edge technology and supply chain needs to support our business operations. Participation in sourcing and vendor management activities across the department, will provide an opportunity to understand different procurement specialization opportunities while contributing to operational needs.
Department Collaboration / Organization Management – The Procurement department at Charter is a large organization made up of several teams with different personnel and priorities. The leadership team has created a structure and tools to standardize the onboarding process for new team members and facilitate collaboration and awareness across the department.
- New Employee Onboarding Materials – The interns will facilitate activities to refine and augment the new employee information including gathering inputs from team members, consolidation of materials, and assisting with the communication plan.
- Cross-functional Standardization – As the department moves to enhanced collaboration tools for document sharing and retention, the intern will work with the Standardization team to manage updates to the new SharePoint sites and assist with managing document transfers and setting up library and site information.
- Early Hire Development – The intern will manage updates and communication across the leadership team for materials supporting training and development of new team members.
Here’s what it takes to get started
Required qualifications
- Must be currently enrolled in an accredited College or University completing a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Degree
- Must have at least a 3.0 GPA or greater in current program
- Ability to travel locally to Spectrum Intern development events and activities throughout the program
- Authorization to work in the U.S. without restrictions or need for future sponsorship
- Procurement or Supply Chain understanding
Preferred qualifications
- Strong attention to detail and ability to handle multiple tasks.
- Analytical skills
- Collaboration skills
- Communication skills – verbal and written
- Drives results through effective project and time management
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
Here, employees don’t just have jobs, they build careers. That’s why we believe in offering a comprehensive pay and benefits package that rewards employees for their contributions to our success, supports all aspects of their well-being, and delivers real value at every stage of life.
A qualified applicant’s criminal history, if any, will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including local ordinances.
This job posting will remain open until 2024-12-30 05:00 AM (UTC) and will be extended if necessary.
The base pay for this position generally is between $23.00 and $23.00. The actual compensation offered will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. We comply with local wage minimums and also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of other incentive-based compensation such as bonuses.
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