Strategic Sourcing AI & Automation Intern

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Strategic Sourcing AI & Automation Intern to join their team in Spring, Texas.

As a Strategic Sourcing AI & Automation Intern, you will support the Strategic Sourcing organization through research, data analysis, process analysis, and project coordination. You will own or materially contribute to an AI, analytics, or automation project supporting Strategic Sourcing.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Strategic Sourcing organization through research, data analysis, process analysis, and project coordination.
• Own or materially contribute to an AI, analytics, or automation project supporting Strategic Sourcing.
• Collaborate with sourcing leaders, commodity managers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand business challenges and define structured requirements.
• Gather, organize, and analyze structured and unstructured information, including pricing records, contracts, supplier data, market intelligence, and other business documents.
• Translate sourcing challenges into workflows, data requirements, solution concepts, and project deliverables.
• Research, design, prototype, and test AI-enabled capabilities supporting negotiation preparation, supplier-risk identification, contract intelligence, and sourcing decision support.
• Explore and apply technologies such as generative AI, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, workflow automation, and data visualization, where appropriate.
• Develop dashboards, prototypes, user experiences, or decision-support tools that make sourcing information easier to access and use.
• Test AI-generated outputs for accuracy, consistency, traceability, and business usefulness.
• Document solution designs, data sources, assumptions, limitations, testing results, and opportunities for future development.
• Participate in team meetings, project reviews, demonstrations, and periodic feedback sessions.
• Present project results, potential business impact, and recommendations to Strategic Sourcing leadership.
• Fulfill assigned tasks and responsibilities in a timely manner and deliver work against defined project milestones.
• Follow company requirements for confidentiality, data protection, responsible AI use, and approved technology platforms when handling contracts, pricing, supplier information, personal data, or other business-sensitive content.

Education & Experience:

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Analytics, Supply Chain, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• No prior professional experience required.
• Previous internships, university projects, research, hackathons, analytics projects, or AI-related coursework are a plus.
• Demonstrated interest in applying technology, analytics, and AI to solve real-world business problems is highly desirable.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to break down ambiguous business problems into actionable components.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies and business processes.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across business and technical teams.
• Strong attention to detail when working with financial, commercial, contractual, or supplier information.
• Strong time-management skills and ability to deliver against defined project milestones.
• Experience or coursework in one or more of the following is beneficial: Generative AI and large language models, Prompt engineering and AI workflow design, Retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, document chunking, or embeddings, Python, SQL, Power Query, or similar analytical tools, Microsoft Power BI or other data-visualization platforms, Microsoft Power Platform, Copilot Studio, or similar low-code/no-code development tools, APIs, data integration, or basic application development, Structured and unstructured data analysis, Extracting and analyzing information from PDF, Word, and Excel files.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Investment in career development and growth.
• Unconditional inclusion and celebration of individual uniqueness.