Summer 2025 Corporate Strategy Internship - Cleveland

Location:

127 Public Square - Cleveland, Ohio 44114

Job Description 

To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for your top 3 internship roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. 

 

Program Duration: MAY 28, 2025 – AUGUST 8, 2025  

   

What does our Internship Program offer?  Key’s Enterprise Internship is a 10.5-week program that provides meaningful work that matters, offers feedback and coaching, and creates engaging events and conversations that will spark excitement and interest in bringing one’s full-time career to Key post college.  

Interns are involved in a host of line of business specific projects that directly impact and benefit Key’s business and strategic pillars. The program includes networking with Key teammates across all levels of the organization, a series of Learning Labs where internal and external speakers provide insight on Key’s competitive landscape, financial wellness, and professional development best practices, and an assigned mentor who shares knowledge, experience, and advice.  

  

Line of Business: Key Corporate Strategy   

  

Line of Business overview: Work done in the Corporate Strategy Group falls into three major categories: strategic planning, corporate development, and project-based initiatives. Strategic Planning involves the top-down annual strategic planning process, focused on investment prioritization and strategic initiative development, while corporate development focuses on deal-based work and inorganic growth strategy development and execution and ad hoc project initiatives position the group as an internal consulting resource for executive-level business leaders.   

  

About the Line of Business Internship Program  

  

The Corporate Strategy Intern will report to the Director of Corporate Strategy. Working closely with senior and junior members of the Corporate Strategy team, interns support the strategy and business development needs of KeyCorp and all of its principal business units. Interns also support executives and business leaders across KeyCorp in strategy development/strategic planning activities and M&A transaction identification, evaluation, and execution.  

  

The internship spans 10-14 weeks in the summer. As an intern, you will gain experience working on various projects and work closely with seasoned professionals to develop your skills. Your primary focus will be to support the development of Key’s annual strategic plan through the creation of high-quality presentation materials and thorough business analysis. Additional projects include M&A target identification, analysis of target strategic fit, financial modeling and valuation, peer benchmarking, competitive analyses, and business case development.  

  

What You’ll Get Out of This Internship:  

Orientation to Key’s infrastructure and the business  

Training (on-the-job, Excel® and PowerPoint®, etiquette, résumé counseling, and more)  

Direct coaching and feedback  

Engagement with senior leaders  

Community involvement  

Networking opportunities  

Executive Speaker Series  

Consideration for full-time placement (after graduation) upon completion of the internship  

  

Successful interns may be considered for a full-time position upon graduation.   

  

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