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Corporate Finance Intern supporting monthly and quarterly financial reporting, standardized SG&A reporting, Power BI dashboards, ad hoc analysis, document validations, and SAP ERP reporting. The intern will identify process improvements, develop procedures, support timely and accurate reporting, and collaborate with internal partners. Candidates must be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s program, have unrestricted U.S. work authorization, and work onsite three days per week during the summer internship.

Manage plant storeroom operations, including receiving, inventory control, materials issuance, audits, job kitting, stock-level optimization, and obsolescence reviews. Lead teams and contract workers while improving inventory accuracy, service levels, working capital, and operational performance. Partner with maintenance, procurement, and plant stakeholders, using SAP or CMMS platforms, data-driven metrics, Lean Six Sigma, and reliability-centered maintenance practices.

Supports integrated marketing communications across digital initiatives and U.S. tradeshows. Responsibilities include coordinating agency and internal deliverables, developing briefs and timelines, creating messaging and content, supporting creative assets and events, writing and editing copy, using Adobe Express, and measuring campaign results. The intern will also contribute to marketing strategy, competitive research, stakeholder collaboration, and a final communications campaign presentation.

Leads the global strategy, roadmap, governance, and investment portfolio for CRM and commercial platforms. Oversees product management, customer experience capabilities, knowledge, AI, automation, and service workflows. Partners with senior stakeholders across commercial, sales, marketing, supply chain, and technology functions while managing a global multidisciplinary team and balancing enterprise standards with regional needs.

The Process Lead provides leadership and technical solutions in operations, managing tasks to meet safety, quality, cost, and delivery goals, while analyzing processes, coordinating maintenance, and training personnel.

Manage more than $50 million in corn protein feed and oil byproduct sales, including pricing, freight optimization, customer relationships, market analysis, contract and spot sales, prospecting, and negotiations. Collaborate with plant and commercial teams, support forecasting and process improvements, optimize netbacks, assist with logistics, and attend customer meetings and trade shows. The role requires strong agricultural commodity market knowledge, sales experience, and customer relationship management.

Leads Ingredion’s global Insights Center of Excellence, transforming customer, consumer, market, competitive, and business intelligence into growth strategies and actionable recommendations. The role guides innovation, portfolio, investment, commercialization, and go-to-market decisions; builds AI-enabled insights capabilities; leads global teams; and partners across Marketing, R&D, Commercial, Strategy, and regional organizations to drive evidence-based decision-making and profitable growth.

Leads continuous improvement initiatives for a manufacturing plant by implementing Lean and IPS management systems, monitoring OEE and KPIs, facilitating Kaizen and root-cause analysis, supporting cost, safety, quality, and productivity improvements, and driving digital process enhancements. Provides training, coaching, technical process support, and change leadership. The role requires engineering knowledge relevant to corn wet milling operations and collaboration with plant leadership and cross-functional teams.

Leads a multi-million-dollar capital project portfolio and a team of seven project engineers in a manufacturing environment. Responsibilities include capital planning, financial analysis, engineering design, project execution, stakeholder alignment, management of change, reliability improvements, root cause analysis, continuous improvement, and operational governance. The role develops investment strategies, mentors engineering talent, removes execution barriers, and ensures projects meet safety, schedule, budget, quality, and performance objectives.

Prepares plant accruals, expenditure analyses, variance reports, reconciliations, forecasts, budgets, yield and corn accounting, inventory adjustments, and monthly close reporting. Supports physical inventory counts, audits, SOX controls, and process improvements across plants. The role collaborates with operations, finance, and functional managers to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, while analyzing costs and identifying improvement opportunities.