Corporate Strategy & Development Intern (Summer 2025) - Clarios

What You Will Do

• The Global Strategy team at Clarios works to develop and advance the growth agenda for Clarios, collaborating with regional, functional, and parent-company leadership. Specifically, we are responsible for: analyzing and framing growth challenges and opportunities open to Clarios; structuring choices and solutions for decision-makers; leading the start-up approach for select initiatives; and collaborating broadly across the organization to measure progress, action and results.
• As part of this team, the Global Strategy Intern will focus on:
  • Enterprise Strategy Development (60%)
    • Discrete and critical strategic questions facing the enterprise, specific regions, or functions.
  • Integrated Business Planning (30%)
    • Supporting the development and maturation of Clarios’ key strategic planning processes, such as the 5-year business plan, and strategic toolkit, such as research services and data sources.
  • Corporate Development & Portfolio Strategy (10%)
    • Support, as needed, evaluation of potential M&A and strategic partnership opportunities.

How You Will Do It

• Enterprise Strategy Development
  • Assess and prioritize key market, customer, competitive and technology dynamics impacting Clarios over mid to long term
  • Evaluate requirements and business models to establish critical success factors
  • Determine Clarios' positioning, gaps, and requirements against these factors
  • Develop actionable strategies and tactics to drive business plans
  • Frame the issues, framework and strategic response for Clarios leadership
  • Quantitative analysis
• Integrated Business Planning
  • Gathering input from diverse stakeholders across the organization
  • Identify areas for improvement in efficiency, effectiveness, and engagement and define potential solutions
  • Create appropriate mechanisms to track progress and impact
• Corporate Development & Portfolio Strategy
  • Assess specific targets, developing preliminary business cases and/or assessing analysis from regions of strategic fit and opportunity
  • Lead or support due diligence efforts

What We Look For

• Currently enrolled as a full-time student at an accredited U.S. college or university.
• Pursuing an undergraduate degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or similar.
• Duration: Summer 2025. Up to 40 hours per week.
• Working Arrangements: Hybrid internship – Ability to be in-person at our Glendale, WI HQ 3+ days per week for the summer.
• PLEASE NOTE that applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US without the need for sponsorship, now or in the future.

What We Do Here

Glendale, Wisconsin is home to the U.S. corporate headquarters of Clarios - a global leader in advanced battery technologies. Here on our Glendale campus, we have 400 employees and have been here since 2019. Together, we support our organization of over 16,000 people and actively participate in community events to support our hometown of Milwaukee.

What you get:

• Global market strength and worldwide market share leadership

• HQ location earns LEED certification for sustainability plus a full-service cafeteria and workout facility

• Clarios has been recogizned as one of 2024's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere. This prestigious recognition marks the second consecutive year Clarios has received this distinction. 

Who we are:
Clarios is the creator behind the world’s most recognizable car battery brands. We are the car battery found in most new vehicles including leading brands such as Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan. Our 16,000 employees develop, manufacture, and distribute batteries for virtually every type of vehicle. We recover, recycle, and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials, leading sustainability practices in our industry. Clarios, formerly Johnson Controls Battery Group, is currently a Brookfield portfolio company. Learn more about us at www.clarios.com.

We recognize that people come with a wealth of experience and talent beyond just the technical requirements of a job. If your experience is close to what you see listed here, please apply. Diversity of experience and skills combined with passion is key to challenging the status quo. Therefore, we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply to our positions. Please let us know if you require accommodations during the interview process by emailing Special.Accommodations@Clarios.com. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value diversity in our teams in terms of work experience, area of expertise, gender, ethnicity, and all other characteristics protected by laws in the countries where we operate. For more information on our commitment to sustainability, diversity, and equal opportunity, please read our latest report. We want you to know your rights because EEO is the law.

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