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Intern - Capacity Portfolio Representative - Summer 2024

C.H. Robinson

C.H. Robinson

Kansas City, MO, USA
Posted on Friday, November 10, 2023
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Intern – Capacity Portfolio Representative – Summer 2024

Job ID
R36186-1
Address
901 West Carondelet Drive, Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 64114
Job TypeFull time

Looking to kick-start your career? C.H. Robinson is excited to welcome a Capacity Portfolio Representative Intern to join our North American Surface Transportation (NAST) team. This position serves as your pathway to mastering the nuances of thesupply chain industry. You'll immerse yourself in carrier businesses, growth strategies, and preferences, ensuring optimalcapacityutilization and utilizing digital products for carrier satisfaction.Gain hands-on experience with leading booking products like Book it Now, Auto-Book, and Committed Capacity Programs, exploring their distinct advantages. Delve into the dynamic world of freight markets, comprehending supply and demand factors driving capacity availability and pricing decisions while refining analytical skills and internal costing methods in a real-world setting.

Our Fortune 200 internship program offers a chance to impact global companies. Dive into the ever-evolving supply chain industry, gaining hands-on business experience. The paid internship starts with an interactive onboarding program, introducing you to C.H. Robinson's technology, processes, and culture. Interns integrate into our teams, learning global freight services and aiding in supply chain optimization for shippers and carriers.

This internship begins summer 2024 but we are interviewing NOW! Apply today to beat the rush and start learning how you can grow your best self with us. 

Responsibilities:

  • Work along-side industry professionals to learn internal business processes and supply chain best practices

  • Build strong relationships internally across teams and externally with customers, carriers, and suppliers

  • Learn and effectively use best-in-class technology systems, including our proprietary global supply chain platform, Navisphere®

  • Develop and apply skills across multiple areas of the transportation and logistics industry, including but not limited to: sales and negotiation, operations management, and transportation information systems

Required Qualifications:

  • Excellent communication skills, verbal and written

  • Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven, team environment, while also delivering independent results

  • Relationship building skills

  • Driven, enthusiastic, and highly motivated

  • High attention to detail and ability to multitask

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Values a diverse and inclusive work environment

  • Undergraduate education at a Junior or Senior level (pursuing a business, sales, marketing, supply chain, communications, or related major is a plus)

We value an environment where you can grow by challenging yourself and are supported with the potential for internal promotion – within Sales, Global Forwarding, Operations, Account Management or other areas – so you can discover new interests, develop your strengths, and reach your life goals. So, what are you waiting for? Click that apply button.

Questioning if you meet the mark? Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply unless they match the job description exactly. Here at C.H. Robinson, we’re building a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel they belong. If this position excites you, we welcome you to apply whether you check all the preferred qualifications or just a few. You may just be our next great fit!

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We believe in equality for all and celebrate the diversity of our employees, customers and communities. We believe this increases creativity and innovation, drives business growth and enables engaged and thriving teams.  We’re committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

Affirmative Action Employer/EOE/M/F/Disabled/Veteran 

Benefits

Your Health, Wealth and Self

Your total wellbeing is the foundation of our business, and our benefits support your financial, family and personal goals. We provide the top-tier benefits that matter to you most, including:

  • Two medical plans (including a High Deductible Health Plan)

  • Prescription drug coverage

  • Enhanced Fertility benefits

  • Flexible Spending Accounts

  • Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)

  • Dental and Vision

  • Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability

  • Paid and floating holidays

  • Paid time off (PTO)

  • Paid parental leave

  • Paid time off to volunteer in your community

  • Charitable Giving Match Program

  • 401(k) with 6% company matching

  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  • Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities

Dig in to our full list of benefits on OUR CULTUREpage.

Why Do You Belong at C.H. Robinson?


Standing out among the world’s largest logistics platforms, C.H. Robinson solves logistics problems for companies across the globe and across industries, from the simple to the most complex. For 100+ years, our global suite of services has innovated trade to seamlessly deliver the products and goods that drive the world’s economy. With 20 million shipments annually for 100,000 customers, and millions of dollars contributed to support causes that matter to us, our people and technology literally move the world.

As a FORTUNE 200 company, FORTUNE has also named C.H. Robinson one of the World’s Most Admired Companies 2022. Headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, we are proud to be recognized as one of LinkedIn’s Top Companies in Minneapolis-St. Paul 2021. And we’re not stopping there… Join us as we collaborate, innovate, and work as one global team to make life better and more sustainable for our customers, communities, and world.


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