Student Intern, Buying and Planning

16 Month Internship

Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) is a US$7.9 billion global leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions. We bring global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from the drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services. Through our unrivalled customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in aerospace and defense, communications, enterprise, healthtech, industrial, capital equipment, and smart energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges.

Celestica is a high-integrity work environment and when you join Celestica you are a part of a leading global company that enables the world’s best brands, and contributes to our innovative and collaborative solutions that help our customers unlock the potential of the future. 
 
Our global network spans 15 countries with 26,000 employees across the Americas, Europe and Asia. At our Toronto headquarters, we are focused on attracting top talent into our organization, including interns from universities and colleges.  

Celestica's internship program provides students with valuable development through real-life work experience, exciting projects and networking with industry professionals.

Benefits for Students Include:

• Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies
• Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship 
• Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree 
• Access to Celestica’s development programs and projects
• Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year
• Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking
• Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company
• Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things
• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology
• Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer
• Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship
• Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues
• Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica’s charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities.

About this Opportunity

The Buying and Planning Intern will act as a key member of the Supply Chain team by providing support to the Buying / Planning teams.

Preferred Skills

• Understanding of Supply Chain strategies
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint, or Google Suite skills
• Knowledge of basic computer applications and the ability to learn and use multiple applications specific to this department, including ERP tools
• Knowledge of SAP would be an asset
• Ability to handle multiple tasks while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy and working under tight time deadlines
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers

Activities

• Redeploying Celestica’s inventory through negotiating pricing and sales, i.e. E&O Deployment
• Working with suppliers to negotiate VMI and Replenishment Lead Time improvement programs
• Work to reduce Days of Supply on key components, which will help with reducing overall inventory
• Collaborating with internal IT team to develop customer requested reports
• Work on customer data feeds, ad hoc
• Mitigate supply chain risk by running BOM risk analysis reports, Safety Stock solutions, Inventory Optimization strategies
• Setting up external Hubs, working with internal teams to coordinate, ad hoc
• Quarterly freight and hub management
• Data analysis and recommendations based on trend analysis
• Processing rapid reports from Supply Chain Directors, ad hoc

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment. 
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data. 
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required

Additional Details

Area: Supply Chain

Start Date: May 2025

Location: 5140 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

Vacancies: 1

Experience: No formal experience required

Education: Currently enrolled in an Internship program completing 2nd or 3rd year of a 4-year University program or 2nd year of 3-year Diploma program specializing in Supply Chain, Business, Operations or Materials
Management.

To apply, please visit www.celestica.com. Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.