Intern – Global Strategic Sourcing

Job Description

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Job Role and Responsibilities

Global Strategic Sourcing develops and executes supply strategies that deliver high quality, timely, innovative, and competitive services and products that enables VMware’s organizational priorities.

VMware offers its Sourcing intern an opportunity to be part of a critical team whose charter is to provide best in class sourcing solutions through strategic partnerships and to be a trusted business partner enabling VMware's strategic goals, through innovative sourcing. Our team consists of these main components:

• Strategic Sourcing
• Operations
  • Contingent Workforce Program
  • Travel and Events
  • Global Lifecycle Operations
• Operations Support
  • Center of Excellence
  • Spend Analytics
  • Supplier Diversity Program
  • M&A Integration office

Responsibilities:

As a Sourcing intern, you will be assigned to a specific team within the Sourcing organization that will best fit your interest/skills as well as meet the critical priorities relevant at the time. Within one of these teams you will engage with many aspects of VMware ensuring you receive a well-rounded, global experience. Your role could include the following activities:

• Strategic Projects: Developing an operational plan for (inbound) Software licensing and SaaS software related to VMW products. This role sets priorities, strengthen operations, establishes agreement around intended outcomes/results, and assesses and adjusts the organization's direction in response to industry trends/changing environment.
• Analytics: Reporting and developing spend analytics supporting VMware’s capability to methodically source prioritized indirect spend commodities areas and reduce costs. This includes management of spend data capture; executive reporting; savings tracking, and performance measurement tracking.
• Influencing/Executing (developing and deploying supply strategies): This role engages with various teams across the organization to understand the services that are being sourced and may include identifying pain-points and deficiencies, identifying improvement opportunities, and proposing future state solutions. In this role you will work with the business unit stakeholders to determine the optimal strategies for the desired outcomes and collaborate to define the future strategic sourcing roadmap. The end goals being competitive pricing by suppliers delivering timely and with high quality while minimizing risk.
• Process Improvements: Leading process improvement / re-engineering efforts in major Strategic Sourcing projects e.g. contingent workforce program rollout in APAC/EMEA, Identifying and targeting ROI/adoption of enterprise level tools as well as collaborating with various business stakeholders to drive initiatives and programs. This role also provides thought leadership on Strategic Sourcing process best practices enabled by market research, analysis, and benchmarking.

Requirements:

• Currently pursuing an MBA degree
• 3 to 5 years of work experience prior to returning to school for MBA
• Strong analytical, project management and problem-solving skills
• Proven success working and adapting in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities
• Excellent written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills

Preferred Skills:

• Prior work experience in the tech industry
• Self-starter, team player, information seeker, takes ownership

Please note that while anyone with a legal right to work in the United States may apply for this role, VMware is not presently sponsoring work visas for the entry-level roles for which these Internships may prepare you.

Category : University and Recent Grads
Subcategory: Internships
Experience: Internship
Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time
Work From Home: No
Posted Date: 2019-11-19

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