About the position
Meritage Home's is a Top 5 builder dedicated to building energy-efficient homes and communities. We are looking for future leaders that can help Meritage continue to grow, set our future strategy and solve our business challenges. Our internship program is designed to help you not only understand what we do but how and why we do it. If you are looking for an experience where you can immerse yourself in a business, establish a network, learn, develop your skills, and have some fun, then this is the place for you. The Corporate Strategic Growth intern will learn the business development and project management side of Meritage Homes from our Build-for-Rent channels. Whether it is communicating deals to potential large scale buyers and sellers or if you are interested in learning more about the transactional side of real estate, then this is a unique opportunity to grow your sales and project management skills. This internship opportunity will be full-time during the summer 2025 or fall 2025 internship season. They would like to have an intern for at least 1 year to fully understand the internship roles and responsibilities.
Responsibilities
- Learn how to grow a new part of Meritage Homes' business
- Gathering statistics and data
- Learning something different every day
- Organizing data reports
- Learn internal information and data gathering
- Work closely with internal business leaders to learn the homebuilding industry, the Meritage business model and an assigned functional area such as construction, land, marketing, operations, purchasing, finance, human resources, etc.
- Learn our core values and why they drive everything we do
- Translate classroom experience into practical application during the internship
- Participate in cross-functional projects involving other interns and business leaders centered around current business challenges
- Present real world business recommendations to senior leadership that can help drive our strategy
- Write a paper focusing on the experience or another assigned topic
Requirements
- Actively enrolled in a degree program from a regionally accredited university or college
- Operating with integrity
- Always assuming positive intent and bringing passion to work
- Having a desire to 'win' and get stuff done
- Fostering an inclusive environment
- Asking questions, seeking to understand and making recommendations to improve
- Wanting to always innovate, think of new ideas and solve for bigger problems
- Being relentless in the pursuit of excellence; will never 'settle'
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in a team environment on cross team or functional projects
- Experience dealing with ambiguity
- Experience in a leadership capacity or role and influencing peers
- Relevant College Coursework/Majors: Business Administration, Finance, Real Estate, Operations, Project Management
Benefits
- A work environment that encourages creativity and innovative ideas from every level
- An organization that lives by its core values every day
- Team atmosphere where every individual is considered a vital asset
- State of the art technology to provide an optimal working environment
- A competitive pay structure
- Strong benefits
- Flexibility in work-life integration
- Team-oriented environment where all individuals play an integral role in the company
- Opportunity to further your career in a growing national organization
- Maintain a competitive drive to be the best
