Procurement Intern chez BLUSOURCE

Description

What You’ll do: 

Are you looking to gain hands-on experience in procurement, supply chain management, and global sourcing? Try out the Procurement Intern role! You’ll work closely with our Procurement Team to support vendor research, data accuracy, and purchasing initiatives that help our partners do good in the communities they serve. 

What will you gain from us? You’ll gain practical, interactive experience in supplier research, data analysis, and reporting—skills essential for a career in procurement, operations, or supply chain management.  

On a typical day you will be accountable for: 

As a Procurement Intern, you’ll support the team by maintaining accurate product, vendor, and purchase order data in Sage 100, conducting research on international suppliers and sourcing trends, and assisting with compliance and documentation organization in SharePoint. You’ll help create and maintain reports on purchase order progress and supplier performance, and take ownership of a special project such as supplier mapping, sustainability analysis, or benchmarking studies, presenting your findings to the procurement leadership team. Through these tasks, you’ll gain hands-on experience in data management, supplier research, and global procurement operations. 

Physical Requirements:  

• Lift and carry 30-50 pounds throughout the workday. 

• Tolerate moderate to high noise level in the warehouse.  

• Vision abilities required are color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. 

• Perform steady pace of work while completing repetitive physical movements: stand, kneel, push and pull objects, reaching with hands and arms, etc. 

• Ability to work in non-air-conditioned warehouse during the summer with large fans creating moderate air flow.  

If you answer yes to these questions, this role may be for you! 

• Do you have an interest in supply chain, procurement, or operations? 

• Are you detail-oriented and enjoy analyzing data to make informed decisions? 

• Do you like organizing information and improving systems? 

• Do you want to learn how global sourcing impacts cost, quality, and compliance? 

• Do you want to work on a meaningful project and present your ideas to business leaders? 

Education, Experience & Proficiencies: 

• Hold or are working towards a bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Supply Chain Management, International Business, or related fields. 

• Strong organizational and analytical skills 

• Microsoft Office 365 

• Excellent communication and teamwork skills 

About us! 

Now that you understand your role for us, let me tell you what our role is for YOU. 

Blusource empowers our partners around the world to do good in the communities they serve. And we do the same for our employees. We make sure your experience with us is informational, interactive, and fun! You, and the value you provide is extremely important to us, so we want to make sure we provide you with the experience you need to be successful.  

Company Core Values are important right? Here’s ours! 

All Blusourcers Embody Our Core Values: 

• People Matter Our deep commitment to how we treat others is the key to building something that matters. 

• Own It Integrity, transparency, and follow through build trust. 

• Everything Speaks The products, process, partnerships, and experiences all create the voice of Blusource. 

• Go Further Together Collaboration enables us to achieve more. 

• Customer Obsession We pay attention, earn trust, and grow loyalty. 

• Growth Mindset Continuously learning and growing helps us maximize our potential. 

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