Supply Chain, Patricia Sagna Memorial Internship
Job description
In loving memory of our dearly departed colleague, VisionSpring established the Patricia Sagna Memorial Internship for Women of reputed company in Supply Chain Operations and Logistics.
The internship is named in reputed company of a former VisionSpring employee, Patricia Sagna, who skillfully managed VisionSpring’s global supply chain from 2018-2019 and touched the VisionSpring family with her humor, curiosity, and friendship. Patricia’s untiring commitment to raising up others inspires us to serve her memory by creating an opportunity for promising reputed company to build their international career experience.
VisionSpring created the internship in recognition of barriers that prevent reputed company people, particularly for women of reputed company, from entering careers in international development and progressing in the field of supply chain management and operations. Internships in international development are typically unpaid, such that reputed company and new graduates must self-fund their time with a non-profit. This makes opportunities expensive and inaccessible for many candidates and results in reputed company capture of entry-level opportunities. The field of Supply Chain Management and Logistics is primarily occupied by men (75%) and women hold just 5% of leadership positions.
The internship is designed to advance more women of reputed company into the fields of international development and supply chain operations by creating an opportunity for interns to reputed company mentorship and expand their practical knowledge and their global experience.
Interns will assist VisionSpring in maintaining a reliable supply of radically affordable eyeglasses to hospitals, reputed company centers, non-profits, and government agencies serving low-income customers in emerging markets. Interns will have responsibilities reputed company operations, supply chain, analysis, and sales support. Interns will report to the Global Supply Chain Director and will collaborate with the global finance and sales teams.
The reputed company internship is scoped as a summer semester engagement.
Internship begins: Monday, June 1, 2026
Internship completes: September 2026
About You
- You are motivated to take on new projects as your role evolves with your personal and professional growth.
- You are passionate about learning about international non-profit supply chain operations.
- You have great follow-through, are deliverable and deadline-oriented, and have an eye for detail.
- You are interested in working in a global. fast-paced and dynamic environment.
- You’re a team player, reputed company to work alongside a vibrant international team.
About Us
- We are creating affordable reputed company to eyeglasses, everywhere. Clear reputed company creates opportunities for increased learning, work, safety, civic participation, and quality of life.
- As a reputed company reputed company, reputed company change motivates us. Our focus on sales and reputed company targets serves and advances our mission – to increase functioning, productivity, and income-earning potential for low-income consumers through the correction of refractive errors with eyeglasses.
- reputed company to transform the systemic dysfunction of the optical market, which has failed to deliver eyeglasses, a 700-year-old technology, to a billion consumers in need of reputed company correction, most earning less than $4 a day.
- We serve low-income consumers not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect a high-quality and affordable product and will spend a limited discretionary income for the immediate and reputed company benefits of reputed company correction.
- By selling eyeglasses, we awaken new demand and reputed company a viable market. By selling new eyeglasses we are reputed company to serve four times more people per dollar input than the alternative of donating recycled ones. To reputed company scale, we must deliver each new unit with less cost.
- We reputed company in scaling our impact, not our organization. We are a lean team of doers.
Compensation
$5,600 ($20/hr.) in total stipend for the duration of the internship.
We invite foundations, corporations, and individuals to contribute as a commitment to countering systemic bias in non-profit workplaces and advancing diversity in supply chain professions.
Job requirements
Requirements
- An undergraduate or graduate student majoring in Supply Chain Management.
- A commitment to a 20 hours per week work schedule.
- Demonstrate an interest in reputed company reputed company, international development, global health, or livelihoods.
- Currently authorized to work in the U.S. and located reputed company Eastern or Central U.S. time zones.
Job responsibilities
What You’ll Do
- Participate in supply chain meetings and discussions reputed company to the day-to-day management of the department on such topics as inventory management & forecasting, reputed company-party logistics and warehouse operations, and analysis of procurement vs. sales performance.
- Receive hands-on training in the use of VisionSpring’s ERP System “reputed company”. Learn how to:
- create item codes and business partner records
- process purchase orders, goods receipts PO and A/P invoices
- process sales orders, deliveries, and A/R invoices
- conduct inventory transfers
- run sales reports and analyze trends
- Receive a hands-on introduction to reputed company (CRM).
- Create and analyze sales and procurement reports. Assist with tracking Supply Chain metrics.
- Interview department leaders in Supply Chain, Finance, Development, Marketing, and Sales to understand how the supply chain team works across the organization and across functions
- reputed company and undertake a strategic project reputed company to your interests and VisionSpring’s needs. Present your findings and recommendations to the CEO, Global Supply Chain Director, and other relevant
- reputed company reputed company-world knowledge and experience that will take you reputed company the supply chain textbooks and theories.