2026 Summer Global Business Services Internship

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. The Procurement Intern will report to a Procurement Manager. In this role you will work alongside highly specialized functional teams who perform sourcing, contracting, governance and risk management activities along the procurement life cycle. There will be opportunities to contribute to the Procurement Center of Excellence to implement rigor and readiness for all the controls, processes, policies that these activities must comply with. As an intern, you will collaborate, transform and deliver on GBS’s critical operational and strategic goals. 

Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow – personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

Your Knowledge and Experience 

• Required: Currently pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree. Emphasis in finance, supply chain management and/or healthcare highly desirable.
• Required: Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship, with ability to be productive while working remotely.
• 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. 

Pay:

$25.00 per hour for Undergraduate 

$30.00 per hour for Graduate 

About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with experience and exposure to the health professional 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 2026 Internship is June 8th or June 15th through August 14th, 2026. 

Application Process and Timeline:

• Now: Actively accepting applications
• November: If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete Pre-Recorded Video Interview
• November - January: 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

Your Work 

In this role, you will: 

• Gain exposure to the complex contracting and procurement processes that our Sourcing/Contracting Specialists must be proficient in, and gain exposure to the structure, basic language and controls within contractual agreements.
• Utilize various enterprise tools, systems and platforms, with focus on increasing data integrity within and between systems.
• Measure how documented processes and controls can be used to reduce unpredictability and risk of complex activities, as managed in a continuous improvement framework that is designed to set teams up to succeed. 
• Map processes and workflows to document current states and propose future states.
• Apply automation and artificial intelligence into workflows to improve cycle time and accuracy of tasks, enable system-driven controls and promote self-serve adoption.
• Mine and enrich transactional data to assess audit readiness and drive executive decisions.
• Collaborate and problem solve with critical partners within our Procure-to-Pay ecosystem (Finance, Accounts Payable and Information Technology). 
• Apply Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) methods and strategies to assess supplier risk ratings and remediate compliance gaps.
• Design, test and calibrate contingency plans and workarounds that support business continuity and disaster recovery components of a Business Resilience plan.
• Address contractual impacts that continually arise from mandates and other requirements imposed by internal Legal team and external Regulatory agencies.