Global Business Services (GBS) - Summer Internship

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with experience and exposure to the healthcare industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationships and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.

Our Summer 2025 Internship is June 9th or June 16th through August 15th, 2025.

Application Process and Timeline:

• Actively accepting applications
• If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete a Pre-Recorded Video Interview
• 2nd round interviews & offers extended

As an intern at Blue Shield of California, you will:

• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more

General Requirements:

• Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship
• Hybrid requirements - Preferably live within a 50-mile radius of a BSC office and be available for in-office collaboration 2 times per month
• Must currently be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of the internship, with a graduation date of December 2025 or later

Your Role

The Global Business Services (GBS) organization at Blue Shield of California leads the Enterprise Procurement practice as a partner with business and functional stakeholders to plan, select and contract with third-party suppliers, as well as to advance environmental/social/governance outcomes of supplier relationships.

• Highly specialized functional teams perform sourcing, contracting, governance and risk management activities along the procurement life cycle.
• The GBS Procurement Center of Excellence implements rigor and readiness for all the controls, processes, policies that these activities must comply with.

GBS boldly invests in our people to create a meaningful employee experience, optimize end-to-end processes that improve internal customer experience and support business growth, and as well as leverages technology and data to drive self-service and automation. As an intern, you will report to a GBS functional team manager, and play a key role within that respective team to collaborate, transform and deliver on GBS's critical operational and strategic goals.

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Required: Currently pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree. Emphasis in finance, supply chain management and/or healthcare highly desirable
• Required: High proficiency with IBM operating system and Microsoft tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint), and ability to learn new systems and applications as needed
• Preferred: Microsoft 365 applications (Forms, Lists, Power Automate, Power BI), Tableau and Visio
• Preferred: Robust skills in data analysis, problem-solving and process improvement. Ideally has project management experience working with cross-functional teams in a corporate environment