Business Intelligence Intern
VGM Group, Inc.
Date: 2 days ago
City: Waterloo, IA
Contract type: Intern
The VGM Corporate IT department is a dynamic team dedicated to providing innovative technical solutions to a large enterprise organization. Our corporate team partners with all VGM divisions and subsidiaries to provide valuable technology solutions at all levels of the organization. In this role, you will make a direct impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of our workforce. VGM's Corporate IT department is seeking a long-term student intern. Ideally, this intern will work full-time hours over the summer months and part-time hours during the academic year.
Position Summary: As a Business Intelligence (BI) Intern with VGM, you will work with a designated business on projects providing fact-based analytics, develop custom reports, work with source system and enterprise data warehouse data, build dashboards using data visualization tools, research and provide insights to drive and influence decision-making of the designated business unit. You will be afforded the opportunity to work and experience VGM’s unique business environment and dynamic culture. The work is fast-paced and deadline focused. You will be challenged to work as part of a team and autonomously on projects such as:
Working Location: On-Site in Waterloo, IA
Working Hours
During the summer months : Full-Time, 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm CST Monday through Friday
During the academic year : Part-Time, 20+ hours per week
Internship Learning Opportunities And Responsibilities
The Business Intelligence Intern will be assigned a specific or series of projects that will entail developing tools and KPI tracking to enable departments to perform optimally and make better informed decisions. The intern will collaborate with existing team members for guidance and project delivery.
The ideal candidate will be a freshman or sophomore year student actively pursuing a computer science, management information systems, and/or data analytics major, attending a four-year university.
Headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa, VGM is a 100% employee-owned company providing business and professional services to thousands of business customers across North America. Services include group purchasing, commercial insurance, management of healthcare services and networks in post-acute cases, healthcare distribution direct to patient homes, specialty consulting, online education, digital, print, and traditional marketing and more. VGM employs approximately 1,600 people across 40 states and Canada, with more than 1,100 working in Iowa. VGM has been named the Top Workplace in Iowa on multiple occasions and is proud of its role in the communities in which it serves. For more information visit www.vgmgroup.com.
This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.
VGM Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Position Summary: As a Business Intelligence (BI) Intern with VGM, you will work with a designated business on projects providing fact-based analytics, develop custom reports, work with source system and enterprise data warehouse data, build dashboards using data visualization tools, research and provide insights to drive and influence decision-making of the designated business unit. You will be afforded the opportunity to work and experience VGM’s unique business environment and dynamic culture. The work is fast-paced and deadline focused. You will be challenged to work as part of a team and autonomously on projects such as:
- Custom analytics delivery tool
- Market analysis
- Dashboard creation to track department KPI’s As an intern with VGM one will be afforded the opportunity to work and experience VGM’s unique business environment and dynamic culture. The intern must be able to handle multiple concurrent projects and be very detail oriented
Working Location: On-Site in Waterloo, IA
Working Hours
During the summer months : Full-Time, 40 hours per week, 8am-5pm CST Monday through Friday
During the academic year : Part-Time, 20+ hours per week
Internship Learning Opportunities And Responsibilities
The Business Intelligence Intern will be assigned a specific or series of projects that will entail developing tools and KPI tracking to enable departments to perform optimally and make better informed decisions. The intern will collaborate with existing team members for guidance and project delivery.
- Project management: coordinate own work plan and prioritize workflow and projects
- Prepare data for analysis and use in reporting applications
- Team meetings/brainstorming and idea generation
- Preparing and importing data with the use of a variety of types of reporting software
- Presentation of data to peers and business leaders
The ideal candidate will be a freshman or sophomore year student actively pursuing a computer science, management information systems, and/or data analytics major, attending a four-year university.
- Proficiency and/or related knowledge of SQL, Excel, Tableau, or Power BI
- Must excel at working on a team
- Take direction and follow thru on tasks within parameters of project and timeline
- Detail oriented
- Ability to adjust priorities as business need requires
Headquartered in Waterloo, Iowa, VGM is a 100% employee-owned company providing business and professional services to thousands of business customers across North America. Services include group purchasing, commercial insurance, management of healthcare services and networks in post-acute cases, healthcare distribution direct to patient homes, specialty consulting, online education, digital, print, and traditional marketing and more. VGM employs approximately 1,600 people across 40 states and Canada, with more than 1,100 working in Iowa. VGM has been named the Top Workplace in Iowa on multiple occasions and is proud of its role in the communities in which it serves. For more information visit www.vgmgroup.com.
This job description reflects the general duties of the job but is not a detailed description of all duties which may be inherent to the position. Reasonably related additional duties may be assigned to the individual Associate.
VGM Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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