Procurement Strategy & Operations Intern

Available Locations: Austin Texas or San Francisco

The Opportunity

Join our Procurement team for a comprehensive 360-degree rotation across the entire procurement lifecycle. This isnt just a support roleyou will be embedded in three core teams to understand how a global organization sources secures and manages its external partnerships.

The Rotation

• Sourcing: Learn how we identify vendors conduct RFPs (Request for Proposals) and negotiate the best value for the business.
• Contracts: Work with the Contracts team to oversee the entire Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) process including intake contract review and negotiation signatures and archiving.
• Procurement Operations: Support the end to end Procure-to-Pay process including requisition and PO creation supplier onboarding and invoice coordination. Learn how procurement policies and approval workflows are applied in systems like Zip Coupa and Oracle. Partner with cross functional teams to resolve issues ensure data accuracy and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and automation.

Digital Transformation: Gain hands-on experience in Digital Transformation by mastering how to bridge the gap between business strategy and AI development. This role teaches you to identify automation opportunities through real-world stakeholder interviews translate those needs into technical requirements for IT teams and manage a project lifecycle from start to finish.

The AI Innovation Project

As part of our company-wide AI initiative you will be tasked with identifying an efficiency bottleneck within the procurement lifecycle. Using tools like Gemini or OpenCode you will design and propose (or build!) an automated solution. Examples include:

• Automating workflows
• Automating spend analysis reports with dashboard
• Building an AI-driven Vendor Scoring/segmentation rubric.
• Streamlining the internal PR-to-PO workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand how our workflows work today and develop insights to optimize
• Use AI to automate everything possible in workflows
• Work in our current spend analysis tool and support optimizing spend analytics and dashboarding.
• Support category managers in research and market intelligence for active sourcing events.
• Assist in data cleansing and management within our Procurement systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (Finance IT Legal).
• Final Capstone: Deliver a professional presentation to executive leadership on your rotation findings and your AI projects impact.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Business Finance or a related field.
• A systems thinker who enjoys figuring out how things work.
• High technical aptitudegood understanding of AI automation tools and some coding.

Compensation:

• Estimated hourly rate is $24/hr

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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