Overview
Waters Corporation is always looking to hire outstanding future talent for our company. The Global Operations Procurement team is looking to hire a summer intern out of our Milford, Massachusetts office on a hybrid work schedule. This internship is a phenomenal opportunity to gain real-world experience while working at the world's leading specialty measurement company. This internship will last approximately ten weeks and the program will commence in the spring into summer of 2025.
Responsibilities
- Prepare and post competitive bids to the supply base utilizing electronic platforms, and serve as the primary conduit for supplier inquiries
- Prepare information and insight for negotiations using data on previous and forecasted spend, volume, and competitive offerings
- Perform spend data analysis to target opportunities for improvement
- Conduct market research on select commodities through a full spectrum of industry resources, and communicate with commodity leadership on changes in market dynamics
- Monitor sourcing projects and report on costs savings, deliverables, and milestone status
- Updates key market indices and closely track contractual escalator clauses
- Evaluate data to identify supply risks, identify areas for improvement, and ensure alignment of forecasts with demand data for suppliers
- Provide information on critical supply shortages to support operations
- Coordination of supplier performance data and creating content for supplier business reviews
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Qualifications
At Waters, we view the internship program as a mutually beneficial opportunity designed to equip students real world experience, while learning from industry leaders in their functional area of choice. Our goal is that an internship at Waters will enable you to build your network as an early career professional, fast tracking your future career prospects and setting you up for success in the job market. A few key attributes we are seeking in intern candidates include:
Curiosity: Individuals across the organization are passionate about working with, and developing students who have a passion for their subject area and a knack for problem solving.
Courage: We admire individuals who challenge the status quo, take on leadership roles, and embrace challenges outside their comfort zones.
Compassion: We expect our team members to embody empathy in their work, fostering ethical professionalism, collaboration, active listening, and a commitment to continuous learning and growth.
Qualifications specific to this role:
- Pursuing a degree in supply chain, business, finance or related field
- Possesses strong skills in data analysis tools such as Excel and PowerBI
- Shows comfort with analytics; has ability to structure basic financial analysis and can evaluate P+L statements
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.