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One of our leading College Relations programs is our Summer Internship.

We are seeking self-motivated, computer literate majors of Business, Industrial Distribution, Computer Sciences, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or Marketing.

As an Avnet Intern you will gain valuable hands-on training in an operating group that fits your degree program. Groups include sales, product management logistics, IT, supply chain, materials management, finance, or product marketing.

Sales and Marketing Representatives focus on servicing inbound calls from existing and potential customers. Functions of this job include handling customer requirements regarding pricing and delivery, proposals, quoting product lines and negotiating all services and costs with a customer as well as senior buyers and purchasing agents to secure an order. This position regularly interfaces with product management and customer service, field sales, manufacturers and line and corporate management to outline plans and to secure successful sales in the local market.

Integration and Engineering interns focus on observation, analysis, trend identification & recommendation on processes, time observations in production environment, product planning, logistics and integration, and continuous improvement methodologies and engineering.

IT interns will focus on developing web-based internal and external business applications, programming, data analysis and testing.

Supply Chain Analyst coordinate inventory scheduling and capacity balancing for customers while ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Tasks include analyzing customer forecasts for materials, monitoring inventory pipelines, preparing forecast models, and creating reports for customers detailing inventory availability and status.

Materials Management interns focus on planning, scheduling and monitoring the movement of materials, providing input on supplier suitability as it relates to purchasing decisions, ensuring product shipment and delivery, monitoring material levels, and anticipating customer demand on products.

Product Marketing interns focus on tracking and analyzing marketing activities, ROI reporting on programs and promotions, coordinating partner enrollment in marketing programs, partnering with sales teams & product managers to collect, qualify & communicate information on sales leads and opportunities.

Product Specialists focus on teaming up with Avnet Sales to collect, qualify and communicate information about opportunities between suppliers and sales team. Functions of this job include making pricing decisions in the quotation process according to guidelines, negotiating pricing for customer-specific opportunities, responding to sales team on customer quotation and authorizing orders, optimizing gross profit goals, regularly reviewing, auditing and resolving sales order systems data, and placing factory drop ship purchase orders.

The summer program is a paid internship. We are seeking students with a graduation date of December 2011 or May 2012.

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