Procurement Specialist

Jane Street
London, United Kingdom
Career-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience in global sourcing or logistics. The mid-level role in London emphasizes collaboration with full-time employees on real-world projects.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with supply chain management degrees and Excel expertise
    — “Ideally majoring in supply chain management, business administration/management, operations, or a related field
  • Individuals who thrive in ambiguous problem-solving environments
    — “A self-starter who enjoys working on problems that don’t have clear answers
  • Professionals with prior exposure to vendor negotiations or RFP processes
    — “develop and execute requests for proposal (RFPs), negotiate with vendors

Things to consider

  • Fluency in English is explicitly required for communication tasks
    — “Fluent in English
  • The internship involves full-time work commitments with mentors
    — “work at Jane Street full time while also providing a truly unparalleled educational experience

How to stand out

  • Quantify Excel proficiency with specific formulas or automation examples
    — “Highly proficient in Excel
  • Highlight cross-functional collaboration experience in project roles
    — “collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done
  • Demonstrate initiative in process improvement or supply chain research
    — “finding and implementing ways to improve efficiency in our internal processes
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Intern

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • improve procurement processes
  • manage global logistics
  • analyze spend data
Typical background
supply chain managementbusiness administration

Skills & requirements

Required

Supply Chain ManagementInventory ManagementLogisticsProcurement

Preferred

AI Integration

About the role

Original posting from Jane Street

About the position

Our goal is to give you a real sense of what it's like to work at Jane Street full time while also providing a truly unparalleled educational experience. As an intern, you are paired with full-time employees who act as mentors, collaborating with you on real-world projects we actually need done. 

As a procurement intern, you’ll work side-by-side with full-timers to learn how we procure goods and services for the firm on a global basis. You will see how we develop and execute requests for proposal (RFPs), negotiate with vendors, level disparate quotes, manage inventory, raise purchase orders, handle global logistics, and analyze spend data.

Your internship project might focus on finding and implementing ways to improve efficiency in our internal processes, or helping us to plan and research our sourcing efforts. Your mentors will come from different areas of the team, so you’ll gain a better understanding of the planning, execution, and problem solving required pre-purchase and post-purchase. Your daily project work will be complemented by lunch seminars, real-time discussion on the desk, and classes that give you a sense of the broader fundamentals of Jane Street’s business and how your daily work fits into the big picture of our firm.

Learn more about Jane Street's internship program here.

About you

If you’ve never thought about a career in finance, you’re in good company. Many of us were in the same position before working here. If you have a curious mind, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving interesting problems, we have a feeling you’ll fit right in. We're more interested in how you think and learn than what you currently know. You should be:

Passionate about supply chain management, including one or more of the following areas: global sourcing, inventory management, logistics, transportation

Ideally majoring in supply chain management, business administration/management, operations, or a related field

Highly proficient in Excel

Intellectually curious, collaborative, and eager to learn

Humble and unafraid to ask questions and admit mistakes

A strong communicator, both written and verbal

Comfortable working in a highly collaborative environment

A self-starter who enjoys working on problems that don’t have clear answers

Fluent in English

Source: Jane Street careers

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