Summer 2022 Internship: Business Strategy, Supply Chain, Government Relations, and Finance
We are a mission-driven team of collaborators, doers and problem-solvers relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. As part of our small, passionate, team, you will help us develop corporate and business unit strategy and support the execution of our growth initiatives. Interns will work closely on projects with our business units New Shepard, New Glenn, Blue Engines, and Advanced Development Programs by providing analytical support to inform leadership decision-making. Projects may be within the fields of Supply Chain, Strategy, Government Relations, and Marketing & Sales. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your dedicated commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight. Internships are 12-15 weeks long and available year-round in Spring (January-April), Summer (May-September), and Fall (September – December).
Business Strategy –
Responsibilities may include:
- Support our business unit financial and strategic objectives
- Map and understand industry landscape and competitive dynamics
- Analyze strategic tradeoffs and make portfolio recommendations
- Develop and deliver content for strategic reviews with leadership
- Collaborate with all departments to access and collect data that informs decision-making
- Build and maintain tools, analytics, and reporting to highlight performance metrics and other key information
- Work with various team members to build reports and run analysis on various ad-hoc projects
- Deliver meaningful insights on financial performance and opportunities to reduce costs without impacting performance
- Complete cost benefit justifications on strategic decisions
- Lead key business analytics initiatives
Qualifications:
- Students must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or MBA program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship.
- Aptitude for teamwork with shown potential for leadership
- Excellent analytical skill set and attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong written communication and presentation skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
- MBA student with undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, or other highly analytical field
- Demonstrated leadership or management experience in a professional setting
- Understanding of the private space industry
Supply Chain –
Responsibilities may include:
- Build and maintain tools, analytics, and reporting metrics to drive performance
- Lead key business analytics initiatives
- Identify and implement cross-functional continuous improvement projects
- Develop procurement and material strategies to meet business priorities
- Analyze Supply Base trends to optimize strategic sourcing for operations
- Complete cost tradeoff analysis on strategic decisions
Qualifications:
- Students must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or MBA program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship.
- Aptitude for cross-functional teamwork with shown potential for leadership
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Strong written communication and presentation skills
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
- MBA student with undergraduate degree in Business, Engineering, or other highly analytical field.
- Undergraduate or Graduate student in Supply Chain, Operations, Systems Engineering, or other related field.
- Demonstrated leadership or management experience in a professional setting
- Understanding of the private space industry
Government Relations –
Responsibilities may include:
- General support of Blue Origin’s government relations objectives
- Research and analyze the Congressional landscape, including legislation, hearings, and relevant committee activities
- Support development of a wide range of materials for government relations objectives, such as talking points, legislative summaries, and factsheets
- Develop and deliver content for strategic reviews with leadership
- Collaborate with business units across the company to collect data that informs government relations decision-making
- Maintain tools, analytics, and reporting to highlight government relations activities and other key information
Qualifications:
- Passion for creating a policy environment that facilitates millions of people living and working in space
- Students must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or MBA program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship
- Excellent research, written communication, and presentation skills
- Proven understanding of the U.S. legislative process
- Demonstrated aptitude for both teamwork and operating as an individual contributor
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
- Graduate student with undergraduate degree in Government, Public Policy, politics or related field
- Prior professional experience in government relations
- Demonstrated leadership or management experience in a professional setting
- Understanding of the private space industry
Finance –
Responsibilities may include:
- Reporting on financial performance by developing operating and financial metrics, analyzing results and trends to create impactful insights
- Performing financial planning activities by partnering with business leaders to generate cost estimates and time-phased budgets for new projects and programs
- Identifying and quantifying financial risks and opportunities, working with project and functional leaders to define mitigation strategies and track progress through completion
- Performing business case analysis, quantifying non-recurring investments and incremental sources of cash generation to determine return on investment
- Contributing to special projects, helping modernize the finance function through scaling process automation, business intelligence and data analytics
Qualifications:
- Students must be currently enrolled in an undergraduate, graduate, or MBA program and have at least one semester of school remaining after the internship.
- Aptitude for cross-functional teamwork and excellent organizational and time management skills
- Highly collaborative with excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- Aptitude for rapidly gaining technical proficiency using enterprise tools, financial and operational databases and accounting software
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
- Masters student with undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or STEM fields
- Experience and/or knowledge of statistical database analysis, data visualization and analytics software
- Exposure to industrial, manufacturing, engineering or technology organizations with a high level of change management
- Understanding of the private space industry
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. § 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at Blue Origin must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. § 1157-1158. Learn more about the ITAR here.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Blue Origin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. Blue Origin hires and promotes people on the basis of their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that fosters trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin/ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. Blue Origin will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. For more information on “EEO Is the Law,” please see here and here.
Affirmative Action and Disability Accommodation
Applicants wishing to view a copy of Blue Origin’s Affirmative Action Plans, or applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in the application and/or interview process, please contact us at EEOCompliance@blueorigin.com.