Future Leaders Program - MBA Internship

Barry-Wehmiller • St. Louis, MO

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Barry-Wehmiller (BW) Future Leaders Program places interns in high-visibility roles, reporting directly to a business unit’s executive team, with responsibility for leading strategic initiatives that help determine the future of BW. This will include owning end-to-end deliverables that are critical to the company’s success and prepare you to be a company leader. Our successful candidates have been top talents with a track record of high-performance and driving impact. Capabilities include strong communication skills, advanced analytical and problem-solving capabilities, and a bias towards joining a purpose-driven culture where Everybody Matters – note that the culture is so deeply embedded in our purpose that our Chairman wrote a book about it! To learn more, click here: https://www.barrywehmiller.com/MBA. As part of the program, each intern will be placed in a Future Leaders Program track (listed below) that aligns with their interests and capabilities. In your cover letter, please list your top 2-3 tracks, any additional information about your interest in that track, and any long-term locational preferences. The internship will be in St. Louis, MO, with full-time opportunities dependent on role (please note that BW has hundreds of locations across the world) to be discussed during the interview process. Strategy: Work on strategic projects in the following areas. Please specify in your cover letter which area of the Strategy track you are most interested in: Corporate Strategy: Lead initiatives focused on the growth of a business by assessing capabilities, growth drivers, and other strategic levers. Perform analysis to enable key factors of strategic plan (e.g., creating new pricing methodologies developed through data analysis and customer insights; assessing organic and inorganic expansion options) People Strategy: Lead initiatives focused on people analytics, compensation and incentives, and strategic workforce planning (e.g., developing talent matrices and performing market talent analyses) Technology Strategy: Lead execution of complex enterprise technology initiatives that drive business impact for the broader organization (e.g., deploying enterprise AI strategies; designing or optimizing IT business processes) Marketing: Drive key go-to-market approaches by leveraging customer insights, search engine optimization (SEO), AI, and more (e.g., performing market studies to define market size, potential, and entry strategy – e.g., build vs. buy; developing a proactive marketing campaign) Continuous Improvement & Supply Chain: Lead continuous improvement and/or supply chain projects (e.g., designing an updated process to improve business outcomes; performing supply chain assessments that uncover savings opportunities)

Requirements

• Currently enrolled as a 1st year student in an MBA program
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills to solve complex business problems, with a proven track record of success
• Superior leadership abilities with demonstrated business acumen, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable driving impact while navigating ambiguity
• Strong desire to join a people-centric, caring culture
• Willingness to work in St. Louis, MO in summer 2026.
• Authorized to work in the US without restrictions

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic initiatives that help determine the future of BW.
• Owning end-to-end deliverables that are critical to the company’s success and prepare you to be a company leader.
• Corporate Strategy: Lead initiatives focused on the growth of a business by assessing capabilities, growth drivers, and other strategic levers.
• People Strategy: Lead initiatives focused on people analytics, compensation and incentives, and strategic workforce planning
• Technology Strategy: Lead execution of complex enterprise technology initiatives that drive business impact for the broader organization
• Marketing: Drive key go-to-market approaches by leveraging customer insights, search engine optimization (SEO), AI, and more
• Continuous Improvement & Supply Chain: Lead continuous improvement and/or supply chain projects

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees