Why choose an internship with Wellmark? We strive to offer meaningful work that assists in your professional development and provides value to the team. You will gain valuable experience within the health insurance industry and put the skills and knowledge you’ve acquired in school to practice this summer during our 2024 Summer Internship Program. You will have the opportunity to learn from subject matter experts and leaders within the industry, network with fellow internship program participants, and gain practical, hands-on work experience.

If you’re eager to learn, collaborate with others, demonstrate your potential, develop customer-focused solutions, and grow into an exciting career, we hope you’ll consider an internship with us!

What’s Business Analytics in our Operations Division? The Business Analytics team at Wellmark provides reporting and data analysis to various stakeholders throughout the company. We work with many data sources including those related to health/pharmacy claims, member enrollment, health and care management, provider, product/benefit, sales/marketing, customer service, etc. In general, our work consists of collaborating with business stakeholders to define a business problem and then consuming data and doing analyses to enable data-driven decision making. This opportunity will support our Federal Employee Program in our Operations division.

What projects might I support?  Although subject to change, examples of projects are included below:

• Learn to understand Wellmark's approach to using business analytics
• Answer stakeholder questions by writing queries and performing data exploration
• Create highly integrated data sets and self-service dashboards for business exploration
• Extract, analyze, and interpret data using business intelligence tools to support the initiatives of the Business Analytics team
• Build decision models to solve business problems

Ready to bring your strengths to Wellmark? Here’s what’s next! Review the qualifications below. If the position is a match with your passion and interests, submit your application today!

This position will start in May working a hybrid schedule from our corporate office in Des Moines, Iowa.

• Current junior, senior or graduate student studying a Quantitative major for example; Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, or Computer Science
• Training and practice using statistical programming and querying tools (e.g., Python, R, SQL, SAS, etc.) for analysis and complex data integration
• Experience with using visualization tools express data findings and perform discovery analysis
• Exposure to multiple modeling and decision science techniques
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to influence and build relationships of trust     
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to make recommendations by translating data analysis insights into decisions and actions
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop proactive solutions 
• Strong technical aptitude, with the ability to learn new systems quickly

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

The policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants requiring a reasonable accommodation due to a disability at any stage of the employment application process should contact us at [email protected]