Summer Internship – Strategic Program Partner

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

This program is designed to foster a beneficial relationship and provide growth opportunities for Vizient, our employees, and collegiate students. Since 2000, our summer intern program has provided college undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students with practical experience that exposes them to multiple aspects of a career field and the healthcare industry.

This full-time, paid intern program offers an opportunity to accelerate academic learning, apply classroom knowledge, and introduce students to a professional setting. Interns are assigned a supervisor to mentor/develop their business skills, as well as monitor their work experiences. Interns are integral members of the company’s team, setting goals, working toward deadlines, and actively participating in community service projects. The program requires the intern to commit to 10 weeks of participation in all formal training, mentoring, on-the-job learning, and opportunities to interact with senior leaders.

Program starts June 1, 2027, and ends August 6, 2027 Pay rate: $25 per hour.

The Strategy & Execution team helps Spend Management translate strategy into coordinated action and measurable business outcomes. The team partners with leaders and cross-functional teams to bring structure to complex priorities, strengthen execution, improve visibility and accountability, and help move critical initiatives from strategy through implementation and value realization. This internship will support the team’s current focus on strengthening how strategic initiatives are planned, managed, and measured across the business.

The intern’s primary project will help address the need for greater consistency and visibility across key initiatives by supporting the development and improvement of practical tools, processes, and insights used to track progress, identify risks and dependencies, and communicate outcomes. This work will contribute directly to building a more scalable Strategy & Execution capability while giving the intern exposure to strategy, program management, business operations, and cross-functional execution.

• Develop reusable templates, playbooks, and tools that improve the consistency and efficiency of strategic program execution across Spend Management.
• Maintain project plans and track action items, risks, dependencies, decisions, and milestones across strategic initiatives.
• Analyze project data, document current- and future-state workflows, and identify insights and process improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to gather information, clarify requirements, and support project and business transformation activities.
• Prepare clear process documentation, presentations, status updates, and executive-ready summaries that communicate progress and key findings.
• Support continuous improvement efforts by developing process maps, standard operating procedures, and other resources that strengthen execution and enable sustainable business transformation.

• Develop an understanding of Spend Management and how strategic initiatives and business transformation efforts support broader organizational priorities.
• Build hands-on experience with Microsoft 365 tools, including Teams, SharePoint, Excel,…