Strategic Sourcing Intern (Year-Round)

Intern, Strategic Sourcing's Center Of Excellence

Be here. Be great. Working for a leader in the insurance industry means opportunity for you. Great American Insurance Group's member companies are subsidiaries of American Financial Group. We combine a "small company" culture where your ideas will be heard with "big company" expertise to help you succeed. With over 30 specialty and property and casualty operations, there are always opportunities here to learn and grow.

At Great American, we value and recognize the benefits derived when people with different backgrounds and experiences work together to achieve business results. Our goal is to create a workplace where all employees feel included, empowered, and enabled to perform at their best.

Strategic Sourcing's mission is to orchestrate transformative value by seamlessly integrating comprehensive procurement strategies and supplier relationships. We are dedicated to work collectively across the American Financial Group enterprise fostering dynamic partnerships with business units, leveraging insights from both enterprise and external suppliers to obtain the best possible value of goods and services.

Strategic Sourcing's Center of Excellence (CoE) delivers a centralized hub of expertise to drive excellence in enterprise sourcing operations, analytics, and the continuous improvement of processes and tools. CoE is looking for a year-round intern to join their team. The intern will work full-time (up to 40 hours/week) during the summer and part-time (15-20 hours/week) during the school year. The position is based out of our downtown Cincinnati headquarters.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities

• Administer the day-to-day functions of Center of Excellence activities.
• Support managing the supplier onboarding process and work seamlessly with all stakeholders including suppliers and sourcing owners, identifying gaps and finding solutions to ensure timely processing and full approval of suppliers in our systems.
• Responding to internal customers and supplier queries on supplier onboarding status and related issues
• Create critical monthly reports and quarterly dashboards and provide analytics that will be insightful to the Strategic Sourcing team
• Support developing and tracking key metrics to generate necessary reports.
• Assist the Strategic sourcing teams as needed for example in providing ad hoc reports
• Assist in the annual Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) project to ensure process documentation is up to date for all Strategic Sourcing processes by end of second quarter.
• Develop and document SOPs for the Center Of Excellence as needed, as well as update the current SOPs per process changes
• Learn Workday Finance and Workday Strategic Sourcing system functions and be able to provide directions on these to the Strategic Sourcing Team and other stakeholders as well as offer insights on improvements to the source to pay process
• Research into and recommend system and process improvements and assist in the implementation of solutions. Assist in the research of other Workday Finance and Workday Strategic Sourcing tools that we are looking to implement now or in the future.
• Assist in User Acceptance Testing and documentation as part of the Procure to Pay Health Check Analysis, working closely with the Subject Matter Expert and the Workday Team
• Participate in note taking of meetings for later distribution as well as downloading and organizing key meeting recordings on the Teams Channel site in the appropriate folders.
• Assists in automating processes and reducing resource requirements for transactional activities.

Job Requirements

• Currently enrolled in college and pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Business, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
• Desire to stay in or relocate to Cincinnati after graduation.
• Ability to work full-time during the summer and part-time during the school year.
• Prior experience with procurement related tasks not required, but a plus.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Teams.

Business Unit: AFG Procurement

Benefits: We offer competitive benefits packages for full-time and part-time employees*. Full-time employees have access to medical, dental, and vision coverage, wellness plans, parental leave, adoption assistance, and tuition reimbursement. Full-time and eligible part-time employees also enjoy Paid Time Off and paid holidays, a 401(k) plan with company match, an employee stock purchase plan, and commuter benefits.

Compensation varies by role, level, and location and is influenced by skills, experience, and business needs. Your recruiter will provide details about benefits and specific compensation ranges during the hiring process. Learn more at

*Excludes seasonal employees and interns.