MBA Product Management Intern

Build a career powered by innovations that matter!  At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing—improving productivity, enhancing people’s lives and redefining what’s possible.  We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications—from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific.  Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

This position is part of Novanta’s ATI Industrial Automation business unit. ATI is the world’s leading developer of robotic end of arm technologies. ATI end-effectors enhance productivity and flexibility of robotic and automated solutions across a wide spectrum of industries through capabilities such as automatic tool changing, force-torque sensing, material removal, and more. Since 1989, their commitment to engineering excellence, superior quality, and customer-focused support drives them to innovate and continuously improve the most reliable automated solutions available.

This full time, on-site summer internship role in the Apex, NC area will be within the Product Management and Marketing team working on strategic projects designed to expand and grow the ATI business.  The selected candidate will work with cross functional teams and have visibility across both the business leadership, as well as the company leadership teams. 

Primary Responsibilities 

• Support and drive high-impact projects focused on a variety of business outcomes and representing several functional disciplines. 
• Interact and partner with senior leaders at Novanta to define project outcomes, workstreams, activities, timelines, team, and other foundational elements of project and transformation management.
• Lead the development of approaches, frameworks, and best practices to accelerate and drive project impact. 
• Develop effective working relationships with associates across levels at Novanta.
• Perform quantitative and qualitative analyses to drive insights. 
• Build executive-level presentations that are concise, crisp, visual, and impactful.  

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• Enrollment in a top-tier MBA program with 3+ years’ work experience in a corporate setting. An undergraduate degree in engineering, helpful.
• Outstanding analytical (qualitative and quantitative) 
• Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to interact effectively at all levels of the organization.
• Ability to integrate large amounts of ambiguous information into executive-level insights that drive action.
• Comfort working deep in the details, but also at a high level shifting between the two near continuously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Advanced MS Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• Due to ITAR compliance, this position requires candidates to be a US citizen or green card holder 
• Must have dependable transportation.