2027 Summer Internship - Pharmacy Aggregation

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. Vizient Intern Program Overview: This program is designed to foster a beneficial relationship and provide growth opportunities for Vizient, our employees, and collegiate students. Since 2000, our summer intern program has provided college undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students with practical experience that exposes them to multiple aspects of a career field and the healthcare industry. This full-time, paid intern program offers an opportunity to accelerate academic learning, apply classroom knowledge, and introduce students to a professional setting. Interns are assigned a supervisor to mentor/develop their business skills, as well as monitor their work experiences. Interns are integral members of the company’s team, setting goals, working toward deadlines, and actively participating in community service projects. The program requires the intern to commit to 10 weeks of participation in all formal training, mentoring, on-the-job learning, and opportunities to interact with senior leaders. Program starts June 1, 2027, and ends August 6, 2027 Pay rate: $25 per hour. About the team and role The Pharmacy Aggregation Group helps healthcare providers improve pharmacy purchasing performance, contract value, and supply-cost management through data, analytics, and strategic supplier relationships. The team supports member hospitals and health systems by translating pharmacy purchasing activity into actionable insights and identifying opportunities to improve contract participation, compliance, and value. What You’ll Do Support the development of pharmacy spend, contract-value, and member opportunity analyses that help the team identify measurable savings and value-creation opportunities. Assist with gathering, validating, organizing, and analyzing pharmacy purchasing and membership data. Contribute to data models, reporting tools, and analytical methods used to evaluate pharmacy spend, pricing, contract participation, and compliance. Work with analysts and cross-functional business partners to clarify requirements, investigate findings, and support data-driven solutions. Document analytical methods and assumptions, summarize results, and help communicate findings through reports, dashboards, or presentations. Generate ideas for improving pharmacy analytics and participate in assigned team, development, and community-impact activities. What You’ll Learn Learn how pharmacy purchasing, healthcare supply economics, aggregation, contracts, and member value intersect. Build practical experience with data analysis, reporting, financial modeling, and analytical tools such as Excel, SQL, and Power BI. Understand how pharmacy analytics supports member decision-making, supplier relationships, contract strategy, and enterprise performance. Strengthen project coordination, written and verbal communication, documentation, presentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills. Qualifications Currently pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in business analytics, data analytics, computer science, information systems, statistics, finance, healthcare administration, pharmacy, or a related field. Coursework, academic projects, internships, or other experience using Excel and at least one data or reporting tool such as SQL, Power BI, Tableau, Python, or R. Experience with data analysis, financial analysis, reporting, data visualization, database concepts, statistical analysis, or financial modeling. Ability to organize information, analyze and synthesize findings, solve problems, and communicate results clearly in writing and verbally. Interest in healthcare, pharmacy, business analytics, healthcare supply chain, or using data to improve business and member outcomes. Available to participate full time for the ten-week program from June 1 through August 6, 2027. Locations: Irving, TX; Chicago, IL; Centennial, CO; Cape Girardeau, MO; Washington, DC; Alpharetta, GA; Edina, MN; Virtual (Remote). Program information: The internship runs June 1 through August 6, 2027. The role is full time and supports one intern at the undergraduate or graduate level. Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.