Supply Chain Finance Internship - Summer 2027

Location: Red Wing, MN, us Employment Type: {'id': 'intern', 'label': 'Intern'}

Company Description

Red Wing Shoe Company is based in Red Wing, Minnesota, just 40 minutes from St. Paul, where our corporate office sits along the Mississippi River in downtown Red Wing. We are a global company with 2300 employees around the world, but we maintain a close-knit family atmosphere that comes with being a privately-held company. We're rich in history and tradition, but innovation drives us to deliver best-in-class product solutions and highly rated customer experiences. Focus on our employees and company culture results in meaningful employee engagement across the organization. Our Guiding Behaviors of Living our Values, Honoring our Brands, Inspiring our People, Centering on our Customers, and Preserving the long term success and legacy of our Company are the foundation on which we build our future.

Job Description

Red Wing Shoe Company is excited to announce our 2027 Internship Program! The program is designed to offer you meaningful work that will prepare you for your career. You’ll get to see first-hand how our corporate teams develop strategies and practices that support our retail and manufacturing partners, and customers worldwide.

This position is anticipated to include a mix of onsite and remote work. Hours will generally align with core business hours Monday through Friday, with Fridays often ending earlier.

Compensation is $25/hr.

What to Expect

Our Supply Chain Finance intern will focus on improving how cost changes are evaluated across the business. Working closely with teams in Finance, Engineering, and Operations, they'll gain exposure to how product, manufacturing, and financial decisions come together while helping design a more efficient, technology-enabled approach to cost analysis.

Through the project, the intern will document business processes, analyze data, collaborate with subject matter experts, and explore the use of AI-powered tools to support decision-making. This is an opportunity to develop practical skills in process improvement, financial analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and emerging technologies while delivering recommendations that could influence future business processes.

As a Supply Chain Finance Intern, you will

Interview process owners and document the 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 to existing calculations or subject-matter-expert reviews, document exceptions, and refine the solution based on user feedback.

Prepare user instructions, governance recommendations, and a final presentation demonstrating the process, prototype, benefits, limitations, and roadmap for deployment.

Qualifications

We’re looking for students who meet the following 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.

Coursework in areas such as cost or managerial accounting, operations, manufacturing systems, process improvement, statistics, analytics, databases, or artificial intelligence is preferred.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, proficiency with Excel, an interest in manufacturing and cost analysis, and the ability to organize complex information and communicate it clearly.

Experience with Power BI, Power Automate, databases, ERP systems, process-mapping tools, or generative AI/agent development is preferred but not required.

Ability to work effectively across functions, ask thoughtful questions, handle confidential business information, and validate results before drawing conclusions.

Additional Information

Red Wing Shoes is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Individuals with disabilities needing assistance in completing an application may contact [email protected] or call 651-388-8211.

Please view Equal Employment Opportunity Posters provided by OFCCP at https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm

All offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory results of a background check.

Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc. is a drug-free workplace.

Red Wing Shoe Company will not be using recruitment agencies or firms to fill this position and we will not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information. No agency calls please.

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)