Supply Chain Finance Internship - Summer 2027

Red Wing Shoe Company • Red Wing, MN

22h • Hybrid

About The Position

Red Wing Shoe Company’s 2027 Internship Program provides meaningful work intended to prepare students for their careers and offers firsthand exposure to how corporate teams support retail and manufacturing partners and customers worldwide. This internship focuses on improving how cost changes are evaluated across the business. The intern will work with Finance, Engineering, and Operations to document and analyze processes, develop a repeatable cost-impact approach, and explore AI-powered tools that support decision-making. The work connects product, manufacturing, and financial decisions and may inform future business processes. The position is anticipated to include a mix of onsite and remote work, with hours generally aligned to core business hours Monday through Friday and Fridays often ending earlier. Compensation is $25 per hour.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Excel.
• Interest in manufacturing and cost analysis.
• Ability to organize complex information and communicate it clearly.
• Ability to work effectively across functions, ask thoughtful questions, handle confidential business information, and validate results before drawing conclusions.

Nice To Haves

• Coursework in cost or managerial accounting, operations, manufacturing systems, process improvement, statistics, analytics, databases, or artificial intelligence.
• Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, databases, ERP systems, process-mapping tools, or generative AI/agent development.

Responsibilities

• Interview process owners and document current standard costing and ECR impact-assessment processes, including data sources, roles, controls, approvals, pain points, and handoffs.
• Develop current-state and future-state process maps, a data dictionary, and step-by-step standard work for evaluating cost changes.
• Build a repeatable cost-impact model for material price changes, material substitutions or quantity changes, and routing updates affecting labor and overhead.
• Design and develop an agent prototype that gathers required ECR inputs, applies approved costing logic, identifies missing information, and summarizes estimated unit-cost and annualized financial impacts.
• Create test cases, reconcile results with existing calculations or subject-matter-expert reviews, document exceptions, and refine the solution based on user feedback.
• Prepare user instructions and governance recommendations, and deliver a final presentation demonstrating the process, prototype, benefits, limitations, and deployment roadmap.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern