Sourcing and Procurement Intern Review

I complete weekly refreshes that track the spend and savings of projects across Disney, I also produce reports that get handed to the finance analyst to analyse. I work the majority of the time on Excel, but also on programmes like SAP and Ariba. I reach out to the further team very frequently regarding errors on projects or asking for updates so I can track the progression on Excel.

My Excel skills have increased greatly as I wasn't very used to using it before, I have learnt to develop new formulas for existing reports. My communication skills have also benefitted as I keep in contact with a team of around 20 people and ensure I'm available to answer any questions. Finally, my organisation skills have developed as I have multiple responsibilities that I need to prioritise.

I was given gradually increasing responsibility during my placement, my Manager ensured that I was given tasks that I could learn from like finance analysis. I have fairly repetitive day to day responsibilities so I remain quite busy but if I wasn't, I could probably make more of an effort to ask for more responsibilities.

Despite being virtual this year, I recieved a lot of support from my inner team and any time I needed help/support I could reach out via Skype and get an immediate answer. My line manager was also very good at giving guidance and made sure that he advised me, if I sent an email for example, where I could improve.

As I was working from home, I'm sure it was very different to previous years. The interns had a group chat where some things would be organised but not many so I don't think I had a 'typical' experience at Disney.

I really enjoyed my internship - my team were all friendly and were available if I needed. Again, I was at home so I didn't have the same relationship with them as previous interns would have but the experience was as good as it could have been given the circumstances.

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To make the most of the large scope of the business- if there are multiple areas you are interested in, reach out to other teams and see if they would be interested in you shadowing them for a day. Ensure you do some practice Excel tests as if I didn't, I doubt I would have progressed past the assessment day!