2026 Summer Intern - Portfolio Strategy & Delivery - Strategic Insights & Business Optimization

2026 Summer Intern - Portfolio Strategy & Delivery - Strategic Insights & Business Optimization

Department Summary

We bridge value pathways with contextualized insights to direct strategy & prioritize resourcing, thus enabling excellence in delivery.

So that:

• Product Development (PD) investments are aligned to corporate goals and focused on high priority work.

• We enhance PD’s organizational resource readiness for future developments & acquisitions.

We do this through:

• Generating sustainable Data Analytics with proposed actionable insights.

• Building a PD-wide Resource Management Capability with Forecast Models.

• A prioritization framework which is realized through value with clear impact metrics.

• Business optimization insights & solutions that lead to improved decision making.

• Close partnership with PD functional and R&D business units, as they deliver Function/Business Unit specific priorities.

This internship position is located in South San Francisco, on-site.

The Opportunity

Grow Your Biotech & R&D Literacy

• Understand the basic lifecycle of a drug, such as key stages of the Clinical Phase I–IV drug development process, moving from the lab to the patient.

• Scientific Data: Ability to critically evaluate scientific data while asking thought-provoking questions about the research and its business impact.

Engage in Business Value & Portfolio Concepts

• Engage your enterprise mindset to understand how the data analysis we develop in SIBO can help the whole company perform better

• Portfolio Theory: Basic knowledge of how companies manage a portfolio of different products to maximize business value.

• Consultative Mindset: Being curious, proactive, and adaptable when collecting requirements from a stakeholder or other team members.

Apply Data Wrangling & Pipeline Basics

• Data Cleaning: Ability to take primary and secondary data sources and clean them for accurate and meaningful analyses.

• Wrangling Tools: Proficiency in Python, R, and SQL to manipulate and aggregate messy datasets.

• Version Control: Basic experience using Git to collaborate on code and manage different versions of a project.

Apply Statistical Analysis & Descriptive Modeling

• Analytical Approach: An understanding of different analytical approaches and when to use one over the other.

• Exploratory Analysis: Experience in exploratory and confirmatory data analysis to help the team uncover insights.

Work with UI & BI Dashboards

• Dashboard Design: Using BI tools like Tableau or PowerBI to create visual storytelling and user-friendly interfaces.

• UI/UX Mindset: A focus on information visualization that makes it easy for others to connect the dots.

• Communication: Ability to simplify and present complex concepts through clear, visual formats.

Program Highlights

• Intensive 12-weeks, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.

• Program start dates are in May/June 2026.

• A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship. 

• Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.

• Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.

Who You Are (Required) 

Required Education

You meet one of the following criteria:

• Must be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree (enrolled student).

• Must have attained a Bachelor's Degree.

• Must be pursuing a Master's Degree (enrolled student).

• Must have attained a Master's Degree.

Required Majors: Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business or Economics, Physical Sciences (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Physics).

Required Skills: 

• Data Wrangling & Pipelines: Ability in Python, R, or S