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    Business Unit/Role Specific Info

    Our IEs act as internal business consultants to support our servicing and operations business groups.  Our primary goals are to enable superior customer experiences while reducing costs, by applying thought leadership and innovation to identify process improvement opportunities. You will be leading and supporting efforts to collect data, analyze for insights, develop proposals & recommendations for senior leadership, and deploy improvements to our systems & processes.  Projects will give exposure to multiple different business groups across the enterprise, coordinating with Technologies, Finance, Risk, Operations, Marketing, Brand, external vendors, and many more.

    • Directly lead projects & make a real world impact on our business & Card Members.
    • Gain experience with & create world class strategies, systems, and processes.
    • Leverage your statistical manufacturing tools and consulting techniques in finance industry.
    • Work as a team member in a large engineering organization of IEs, Analysts, & Project Managers – dedicated to helping improve business processes & drive optimization.
    • Experience diversified opportunities at our Phoenix & Florida service centers, including diverse career growth opportunities horizontally and vertically within the organization
    • Competitive compensation package for internships – with summer relocation support.

    Skills/Experience

    • Ability to clearly and consistently communicate orally & in writing with superiors & peers.
    • Adept at root cause and quantitative analysis using analytical skills.
    • Understanding of continuous process improvement & problem solving methodologies.
    • Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work independently or in teams.
    • Results driven with the ability to manage projects & initiatives to completion.
    • Demonstrated ability to drive project implementation working with diverse customer groups.
    • Knowledge & exposure using common IE software (such as Excel, SQL, etc).
    • Knowledge, exposure, or expertise in multiple IE topics, such as following:
      • continuous improvement
      • complex problem solving
      • cost benefit analysis 
      • Six Sigma
      • lean
      • project management
      • statistics
      • operations research
      • forecasting
      • quality control / statistical process control
      • work/motion study
      • design of experiments
      • process or value stream mapping, etc

    Requirements/Qualifications

    Students must graduate in 2023

    Currently enrolled in a full-time Bachelor’s or Graduate degree program in one of the below areas or similar:

    • Industrial, Manufacturing, Systems, or Operations Engineering
    • Informatics
    • Information Technology/Systems
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Engineering Management
    • Industrial Distribution
    • Business Data Anaytics
    • Statistics

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    Our team will review completed applications on a rolling basis. We appreciate your patience while we consider your application and will be in contact with you by 3 December 2021. The deadline for applications is 19th November 2021. 

    Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the UK is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.

    Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations. For more information, please visit our career website at https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/careers/.

    If you require any assistance with the completion of this process – or need any reasonable adjustments to be made – then please contact the Campus Recruitment Team on ask.campus.emea@aexp.com 

    American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.