Koch Business Transformation MBA Internship - 2025 - Koch

Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics, and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000+ employees across the globe.

Our Team

Koch Business Transformation Team accelerates the profitable transformation of Koch companies by meeting them where they are on their journey, partnering with them, and empowering them to achieve their targeted business outcomes through the effective leverage and application of the appropriate resources, knowledge, and tools. We do this through a set of Services & Capabilities we continue to design, develop, and improve to support critical phases and success factors along the transformation journey and to enable us to be effective partners, while working with each business to build these long-term capabilities where they create the most value.

Some travel may be required depending on project and/or intern activities.

What You Will Do

The key responsibilities of this team member will be:

Build Capability and Knowledge Processes

• Work closely with business leaders to help maximize and accelerate the value of the highest value transformation programs.
• Contribute to the development of strategy and design practice tools, methodologies, and applications, and inspire innovative approaches and techniques.

• Help business leaders define customer and employee-centric strategies to build their own capabilities.
• Deliver top quality team-based business architecture engagements across Koch companies that center around strategy, target operating model, customer-experience design, outcome definition, and roadmap design.
• Use a range of tools and methods (e.g., qual/quant research, customer journey mapping, service blueprinting, business model canvas, etc.) to articulate strategies that support customer priorities.
• Facilitate and lead strategic business design discussions with key customer stakeholders.
• Plan working sessions and develop assets to deliver targeted outcomes.

• Contribute to the design, planning, execution, and synthesis of research involving stakeholders, customers, and team members.

• "Human Obsessed", putting customers at the center of everything you do.
• A Strategy Leader, who is able to quickly navigate and download large unstructured bodies of information, rapidly getting to conversational fluency around an industry, market, or process and is able to connect business vision and strategy to effective action.
• A Systems Thinker(Dot Connector), who is constantly connecting and synthesizing in pursuit of concrete outcomes and value. Thinking at the ecosystem level comes second nature to you.
• Relentlessly Curious, constantly asking why and seeking understanding.
• A Facilitator, who spearheads Transformation Design activities on projects, including workshops, target operating model design, and roadmap development.
• A Storyteller, who can frame and tell the story of strategy to action. Present the communication of research findings, conceptual ideas, detailed design, and experience design rationale both verbally and visually.
• A Principled Entrepreneur, who is contribution minded, practices a philosophy of mutual benefit and demonstrates integrity, humility, and respect.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Enrolled in a MBA program.
• Projected graduation date of Fall 2025 or Spring 2026.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Familiarity and/or experience with different frameworks such as Design Thinking, Six Sigma, or Lean Startup
• Experience working with/on cross-functional teams and/or diverse stakeholder groups to achieve targeted outcomes
• Experience with manufacturing, operations, connected worker, or commercial experience
• Experience developing or participating in the development of strategic plans to benefit the customer
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience developing and delivering presentations for executive audiences
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills
• Experience with project management and coordinating with stakeholders
• Ability to understand industry dynamics and stakeholders across multiple industries and roles
• Entrepreneurial mindset and feeling comfortable with ambiguity
• Experience in conducting customer /stakeholder interviews and/or synthesizing insights
• Flexible minded; willing to take on additional responsibilities to support the team
• Interested in learning and applying Koch's Principle Based Management (PBM) philosophy
• Interest and experience in business transformation, operating model development, business architecture, CX, service design, experience design, digital strategy, and/or business strategy

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf