Summary

Guidewire Software is seeking a Procurement Services Intern to join the team.

Guidewire serves a global community of more than 350 insurers of all sizes and lines of business in more than 30 countries. Community feedback enables us to stay at the forefront of what is happening all over the P&C world and to incorporate insights into the design of our platform to be truly customer-centric.

At Guidewire, we pride ourselves on our inclusive and collaborative company culture. As part of our intern program, you will gain hands-on exposure to the full procurement lifecycle, including contract management, asset management, and process optimization. This is a unique opportunity to learn and contribute in a dynamic, technology-driven environment.

The Role
This hybrid role is located in Bangalore with in-office participation three days a week. The individual will support global stakeholders and report to the Procurement Services Manager located in the Pacific US. To maximize collaboration with the broader team, an overlap in selected US working hours may be necessary.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

As a Procurement Services Intern, you will:

Support the purchasing process, including supplier onboarding, signature routing, issuing purchase orders, and processing change requests.

Deliver excellent stakeholder service through clear, timely communication and consistent follow-through.

Assist Accounts Payable by researching and resolving invoice questions and processing updates.

Administer and maintain our contract repository, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and overall data integrity.

Contribute to ad hoc procurement projects and initiatives, partnering with team members and cross-functional stakeholders as needed.

Maintain team playbooks and documentation, updating materials to reflect current processes and best practices.

Identify and scope opportunities for AI-enabled automation, with a focus on reducing manual data entry and improving internal support response times.

Keep our PO Intake Orchestration data current and validate monthly via spot checks it is in sync with other key systems (Zip/Zylo/Coupa)

 

Desired Qualifications

Critical thinker – Constantly seeks opportunities to simplify, streamline, and improve processes.

Ownership mindset – Willing to take on challenges and drive them to completion to achieve business results.

Analytically minded – Able to prioritize effectively, analyze data, and determine root causes amid ambiguity.

Solution oriented – Looks beyond constraints to design practical, realistic solutions.

Collaborative – Proactively seeks input and perspective from others to arrive at the best outcome.

Strong communicator – Demonstrates excellent customer service and communication skills when working with stakeholders at all levels.

Detail oriented – Recognizes that details matter and manages them carefully to ensure accurate, high-quality deliverables.

Organized – Excels at managing time, tasks, and information in a fast-paced environment.

Self-driven – Can structure the workday, move tasks forward independently, and leverage available resources when facing questions or roadblocks.

Tech-forward – Brings strong spreadsheet skills, experience with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc.), and learns new tools quickly.

 

The ideal candidate will share our core values: COLLEGIALITY, INTEGRITY, and RATIONALITY.  

Collegiality - We value strong teams. We work together as professional equals. We strive to continuously improve our processes and make realistic assumptions to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. We are trusted to manage our own time. We value ideas, not titles. We welcome and consider contrary opinions.  

Integrity - We insist on honest relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do. 

Rationality - We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We believe in testing. We never assume that we're building software the "best" way, and continuously seek to improve our processes. 

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. We combine digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 540+ insurers in 40 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1600+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of applications that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on Twitter: @Guidewire_PandC.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it's applicable to the position.