Jack Link's Protein Snacks
Supply Chain Procurement Intern
Jack Link's Protein Snacks, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55400
Job Description
Join us in Summer 2025 as a Supply Chain Procurement Intern in Minneapolis, MN!
The Supply Chain Procurement Internship will gain hands-on experience through formal and informal training to manage a procurement category, basic SAP ECC usage, and network with fellow interns and key Jack Link’s leaders. At the completion of your internship, you will conduct a final presentation on your internship experience.
As a Procurement Intern, you will work closely with multiple departments within Jack Link’s, such as Operations, Supply and Demand Planning, Plant Buyers, and Suppliers to gain insight into our business and develop tools to catapult supply chain success.
Specifically, you will:
Oversee a procurement category ensuring no production plant out of stocks.
Review and revise purchase orders as required by changes in the sales forecast or manufacturing schedules.
Act as a liaison between Supply Planning, the Plant Buyers, and Suppliers, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns.
Monitor past due POs for assigned category, working with suppliers to resolve late orders and escalating issues.
Update weekly reports to assist in monitoring procurement categories.
Provide assistance to management/departments on matters related to supporting plant production.
Effectively participate in supply chain projects to deliver expected outcomes.
Exposure to SAP APO/ECC, Excel, and Power BI to track key metrics.
Qualifications:
Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree with an academic focus in Supply Chain, Statistics/Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering, or Finance.
Ability to work autonomously, prioritize, and meet deadlines within a specified time.
Team player with a “can do” attitude.
Ability to adapt in a changing work environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Quick learner.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant/office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet/slippery floors. However, the vast majority of work is conducted in a climate-controlled office. Travel may be required.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:Jack Link’s provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state, or local law.
E-VERIFY:Jack Link’s is a participant in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For information about the E-Verify program, please visit:
http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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Join us in Summer 2025 as a Supply Chain Procurement Intern in Minneapolis, MN!
The Supply Chain Procurement Internship will gain hands-on experience through formal and informal training to manage a procurement category, basic SAP ECC usage, and network with fellow interns and key Jack Link’s leaders. At the completion of your internship, you will conduct a final presentation on your internship experience.
As a Procurement Intern, you will work closely with multiple departments within Jack Link’s, such as Operations, Supply and Demand Planning, Plant Buyers, and Suppliers to gain insight into our business and develop tools to catapult supply chain success.
Specifically, you will:
Oversee a procurement category ensuring no production plant out of stocks.
Review and revise purchase orders as required by changes in the sales forecast or manufacturing schedules.
Act as a liaison between Supply Planning, the Plant Buyers, and Suppliers, communicating and troubleshooting issues, problems, and concerns.
Monitor past due POs for assigned category, working with suppliers to resolve late orders and escalating issues.
Update weekly reports to assist in monitoring procurement categories.
Provide assistance to management/departments on matters related to supporting plant production.
Effectively participate in supply chain projects to deliver expected outcomes.
Exposure to SAP APO/ECC, Excel, and Power BI to track key metrics.
Qualifications:
Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree with an academic focus in Supply Chain, Statistics/Mathematics, Business Administration, Engineering, or Finance.
Ability to work autonomously, prioritize, and meet deadlines within a specified time.
Team player with a “can do” attitude.
Ability to adapt in a changing work environment.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Quick learner.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The work environment is a plant/office setting with varying degrees of temperatures and noise levels. Exposure to manufacturing equipment movement and wet/slippery floors. However, the vast majority of work is conducted in a climate-controlled office. Travel may be required.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:Jack Link’s provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by federal, state, or local law.
E-VERIFY:Jack Link’s is a participant in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees. For information about the E-Verify program, please visit:
http://www.uscis.gov/e-verify/employees
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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