Global Business Services - Summer Internship

Blue Shield of California

Sep 21, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Summer Internship
Logistics
Banking & Finance
San Francisco, +1

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Off-cycle Internship

Requirements

Required: Currently pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree. Emphasis in finance, supply chain management and/or healthcare highly desirable?
Required: Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship, with ability to be productive while working remotely.
Required: High proficiency with IBM platform and Microsoft tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint), and ability to learn new systems and applications as needed. Experience with Visio is highly desirable.
Preferred: Robust skills in data analysis, problem-solving and process improvement. Ideally has project management experience working with cross-functional teams (paid roles, internships, volunteer experience, etc.).

Responsibilities

As an intern, you will report to a GBS functional team manager, and play a key role within that respective team to collaborate, transform and deliver on GBS’s critical operational and strategic goals. Here is what you can expect to learn, and how you can contribute, during this internship in GBS:
Enterprise Sourcing:
Understand the anatomy of contracts and basic language of contractual agreements.
What best practices are for conducting different types of competitive bids.
How to negotiate pricing and terms for various products and services.
Drive stakeholder progress and alignment throughout the contract redlining process.
Allocate resources and manage team capacity relative to sourcing request demand.
Compliance with various mandates and requirements imposed by internal Legal team and external Regulatory agencies.
Procurement Center of Excellence:
Gain understanding of the complex contracting and procurement processes that an enterprise Sourcing Team member must be proficient in.
How to utilize various enterprise tools, systems and platforms, with focus on data integrity between critical enterprise systems.
Value of documented processes and audit control points in yielding consistent outcomes that can reduce unpredictability and risk. How to simplify complex processes into user-friendly framework that set teams up to succeed.
How to communicate and collaborate with cross-functional team members through various channels.
Past Intern projects have included:
Reconcile active suppliers across two systems (Oracle and Jaggaer).
Enable standardization of contract template formats with macros in Excel.
Enable more efficient updates to complex process documentation by mapping end-to-end workflows.
Increase effectiveness and compliance of Sourcing Team by modernizing training content into video modules.
Deepen the audit framework to validate process and system controls are working as expected.
Corporate Insurance:
Broad exposure to Risk Management and Corporate Insurance, which add valuable dimensions to a career in Business Administration and Finance.
How to apply best practices and processes to increase effectiveness and efficiency of critical business operations.
How to identify and develop creative solutions for streamlining processes and automating tasks.
Various methods for conducting research, data collection and data analysis.
Past Intern projects have included:
Support the risk management and corporate insurance team in day-to-day administrative tasks, activities, and projects.
Assist Corporate Insurance Risk Manager in optimizing end-to-end processes by validating and improving Risk Management and Insurance tasks.
Assist in other special projects and/or ad-hoc analysis related to risk management and insurance.

Blue Shield of California

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Finance

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

1939

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

Blue Shield of California strives to create a healthcare system worthy of its family and friends that is sustainably affordable. Blue Shield of California is a tax-paying, nonprofit, independent member of the Blue Shield Association with 4.7 million members, 7,800 employees, and $22.9 billion in annual revenue. Founded in 1939 in San Francisco and now headquartered in Oakland, Blue Shield of California and its affiliates provide health, dental, vision, Medicaid and Medicare healthcare service plans in California. Blue Shield of California complies with applicable state laws and federal civil rights laws, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, sex, marital status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.