About the role#
As a Supply Chain Finance intern, you will focus on improving how the company evaluates cost changes. You will work alongside Finance, Engineering, and Operations teams to see how product and manufacturing decisions impact financial outcomes. This role involves documenting business processes, analyzing data, and exploring new tools to assist with decision-making.
What you'll do#
- Interview process owners to document standard costing and ECR impact-assessment processes.
- Create current-state and future-state process maps.
- Develop a data dictionary and step-by-step standard work for evaluating cost changes.
- Build a repeatable cost-impact model for material price changes, substitutions, quantity changes, and routing updates.
- Design and build an agent prototype for ECR inputs and cost-impact estimation.
- Create test cases and reconcile results against existing calculations.
- Document exceptions and refine your solution based on user feedback.
- Prepare user instructions, governance recommendations, and a final presentation.
What you'll need#
- Current enrollment in an undergraduate degree program in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency with Excel.
- Ability to organize complex information and communicate it clearly.
- Ability to work effectively across functions, ask thoughtful questions, and handle confidential business information.
- Ability to validate results before drawing conclusions.
- Interest in manufacturing and cost analysis.
- Preferred: Coursework in cost or managerial accounting, operations, manufacturing systems, process improvement, statistics, analytics, databases, or artificial intelligence.
- Preferred: Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, databases, ERP systems, process-mapping tools, or generative AI and agent development.
Location & details#
- Location: Red Wing, Minnesota.
- Term: Summer 2027.
- Modality: Hybrid.
- Employment: Full-time intern position.
- Compensation: $25 per hour.
About Red Wing Shoe Co.
Red Wing Shoe Company manufactures work and safety footwear for consumer and industrial customers. Founded in 1905, the company maintains its headquarters in Red Wing, Minnesota. It operates two domestic manufacturing facilities and owns the S.B. Foot Tanning Company. The business employs over 2,000 people and distributes products in more than 110 countries.
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