Program Dates: June 2, 2024 - August 8, 2024
*This is a Boston based opportunity with a 4 day in office expectation
Who We Are:
Wayfair’s Operations organization is revolutionizing the customer experience through the development of a proprietary logistics network and optimization platform that manages the end-to-end supply chain, from overseas production to the customer’s front door. Teams include CastleGate Forwarding, Global Partner Support, Global Supply Chain, Planning & Analytics, and Global Service. Top candidates will possess strong business acumen and an appetite for solving challenging business problems. This is a unique opportunity to help build another competitive advantage for Wayfair while growing your own communication, analytical, and cross-functional partnership skills.
What You’ll Do:
What You’ll Need:
Basic Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Possible Team Placements Include:
CastleGate Forwarding
CastleGate Forwarding is a digital freight forwarding organization within Wayfair's broader CastleGate Logistics network. We offer a full suite of shipping services that aims to provide Wayfair suppliers with competitive and convenient logistics solutions.
Global Partner Support
The Global Partner Support Team makes sure that our Partners focus on what they do best - leaving the rest to us. We act as the voice of the Partner across the organization. We provide our Partners with the day to day support needed to ensure they delight our customers and win online with Wayfair. We identify areas where we need to do better, and eliminate issues at source across the organization. We co-develop self service solutions to ensure suppliers have the tools to operate independently. We provide frontline service support, replying and resolving challenges across our suppliers and carriers.
Global Service
The global service teams are responsible for setting the standards on how we deliver an excellent experience to our customers. We identify customer channel disconnects, drive improvements for a smooth and frictionless customer experience, recommend technology solutions, and train our frontline agents.
Global Supply Chain
Wayfair's Global Supply Chain (GSC) team is a network of interconnected global departments that support the journey of a product once an order is placed. This includes teams that manage all aspects of the Transportation & Delivery function, teams that support the frontline operations, and teams that manage and monetize Returns & Incidents. The objective of the GSC team is to get orders to customers' homes quickly, reliably, and conveniently, while enhancing the customer experience by preventing and reducing product defects. As a part of the GSC team, you will have an important role in accomplishing our mission: delivering cost-efficient perfect orders at scale.
Planning & Analytics
Wayfair’s Planning & Analytics team consists of 5 interrelated teams: Forecasting & Replenishment Analytics, Network Management, Operations Analytics, Operations Performance Management/Global Analytics Tech, and Operations Research (OR). Together, these teams deliver insights and support capability development that cuts across the other functional areas and helps us make better decisions across various time horizons, and drive overall network performance/network outcomes. This includes, for example: (a) driving operational planning and coordination across all functional areas for our order-to-delivery chain, (b) shaping long-term strategy and network design, (c) providing the single source of truth for performance across Operations, and (d) applying advanced optimization techniques to enable automated, yet high-quality operational decisions at scale.
Wayfair Internship Program:
Our Summer Internship Program is a paid, full-time program in our Boston, Massachusetts office for 10 weeks, June 2-August 8. No matter who you are, we want Wayfair to be a place where you feel at home. We offer high impact-projects, mentorship, and community-building activities to all of our interns. Throughout the program, we provide interns with the opportunity to engage in social and community building activities including:
Wayfair’s In Office Expectations:
All Boston-based interns, co-ops, and corporate employees will be in office in a hybrid capacity. Employees will work in the office on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and work remotely Friday.
For state-specific application information, please review the following applicant notices.
About Wayfair Inc.
Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.
No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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