The 10-week summer graduate internship partners with leadership to execute the company’s short- and long-term transformation initiatives defined during the strategic planning process to drive growth, improve operating efficiency, enhance cash conversion, and reduce costs across the global GPC organization.

The Summer Associate will have the opportunity to lead a strategic project in partnership with business leaders in the following area:

Strategic Business Transformation

Evaluate initiative based on strategic, financial, and operational analytics to further refine the value creation opportunity

Partner with business leaders to develop and execute implementation plans to accelerate the realization of financial impact

Provide operational progress visibility that informs tactical field level action and sharing of best practices

Evolve pace, depth and rhythm of fact-based decision making to drive business improvements

Requirements:

Enrollment in MBA program preferred

3 – 5 years in related disciplines including strategic planning, management consulting, financial analysis, investment banking, and/or general management

Demonstrates consistent track record of leadership, teamwork, and delivering high impact results

Synthesizes data to enable fact-based decision making to inform strategic and operational recommendations that translate into action

Works in highly team-oriented capacity partnering closely with business unit and functional teammates

Shows ability to lead cross-functional teams through effective communication and collaboration

Embodies self-starter mentality and demonstrates ability to successfully manage multiple projects

Understands the GPC history and serves as respectful ambassador of change to drive improvement

Aligns with GPC core values – hard work, gives back, humility, team-centric, servant leader

Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint strongly preferred

Permanent US Work Authorization Required

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