2025 Summer Internship Program
Location:
This role is scheduled to be 100% remote. While remote, finalists MUST reside in one of the following states to be eligible for employment with Kaiser Permanente: CA, OR, WA, HI, CO, GA, MD, VA, CT, DC, or IL.
Department Description:
Our team serves Kaiser's Supply Chain function, which supports the delivery of medical care to 12.5 million members across 600+ facilities and manages $15B of annual spend.
Our team's primary functions are to:
- Provide financial planning & analysis support for ongoing operations.
- Track and report costs and benefits associated with large investment projects (e.g. new IT system implementations).
- Find and drive cost saving opportunities.
- Help our Supply Chain clients achieve their goals and priorities (e.g. funding strategy for electric vehicle charging infrastructure project).
Intern Project(s):
Develop metrics and dashboard reporting to track spending on supplies across the enterprise. Define algorithms and visuals around leading indicators that alert us when results break from expected patterns. This high impact work will help KP’s regional and national leaders make better informed business decisions.
Develop automation tools to help our finance team spend more time lowering the cost of care for Kaiser Permanente’s members.
Sample assignments:
- Build automation to review expenses and trends to identify month-end accrual entries.
- Build automation to validate monthly intra-company transfers against pre-defined rules.
Target Majors:
Business Administration; Finance & Accounting
Target Skills:
Growth mindset
Insatiable curiosity
Shows initiative and brings fresh ideas to the table
Effective communicator
Critical thinker with strong analytical skills
Proficient with Excel and MS Office tools
Experience with data visualization tools a plus
Job Summary:
Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.
Essential Responsibilities:
Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.
Report development and analytics.
Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.
Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.
Job shadowing in other functional areas.
Performing additional duties as required.
Basic Qualifications: Experience
N/A
Education
Pursuing a graduate degree or have completed a graduate program from an accredited university within the last year. Bachelors degree required. License, Certification, Registration N/A Additional Requirements:
Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions.Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Preferred Qualifications:
3.0 GPA or aboveAdvanced analytical and problem-solving skillsProven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skillsExcellent verbal and written communication skillsAbility to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.