Student Intern, Buying Associate

Req ID: 129324

Remote Position: Hybrid

Region: Americas

Country: Canada

State/Province: Ontario

City: Newmarket

16 Month Internship

Celestica is a global electronics manufacturing services company, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with over 28,000 employees across 40 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Working with the world's leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica delivers a full suite of services – from design and engineering, to manufacturing and supply chain management – to help its customers develop and manufacture products that are transforming the global economy. These products span key areas such as data centre technology, green energy, healthtech, and autonomous vehicles.

Working at Celestica is more than a job. It's about being part of something bigger and shaping the future with your work. You'll take on exciting and challenging projects, get hands-on experience, collaborate with a global team, and learn from some of the greatest minds in the industry. And just as we aspire to imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers, we're just as committed to delivering the best employee experience.

Benefits For Students Include

• Experience working for one of the largest Canadian global technology companies
• Possibility of a student casual contract position after completion of internship
• Possibility of a full-time position after completion of degree
• Access to Celestica's development programs and projects
• Celestica's Time Off to Volunteer program – two paid days off to volunteer per year
• Fun intern activities including celebration events and networking
• Internal recognition programs and rewards for stellar performance

What's in it for you?

• Opportunity: Job experience at a large Canadian-based global company
• Innovation: We look to our employees to implement new ideas and improve the way we do things
• Collaboration: Students work as part of global teams, enabled by collaborative technology
• Sustainability: We uphold strong ethics, reduce our impact on the environment and empower employees to give back to the community with two paid days off per year to volunteer
• Development opportunities: including soft skills courses, innovation projects and mentorship
• Networking: Strategically build your professional network to advance your career and deepen relationships across your peers and colleagues.
• Fun: Our interns have the opportunity to participate in fun activities including intern social events, Celestica's charitable initiatives and our Spirit Week activities.

About This Opportunity
The Buying Intern acts as a key member of the Supply Chain team by providing support to the Buying/Planning teams.

Preferred Skills

• Basic understanding of purchasing practices and procedures.
• Strong knowledge of Google Sheets and Excel, experience with macros is an asset.
• Knowledge of Power BI is an asset.
• Knowledge of SAP is an asset.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet tight time deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and problem solve a variety of tasks to ensure their timely and accurate completion.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers.
• Experience in operations management is an asset.

Activities

• Reviews demand requirements for lower dollar, lower cost manufacturing parts and supplies.
• Checks requisitions for completeness and accuracy.
• Obtains quotes, examines bids and recommends awards.
• Suggests, prepares and administers purchase orders to achieve material quality, cost and delivery requirements.
• Analyzes material availability to manage inventory investment.
• Maintains ongoing communication with suppliers to gather information on materials availability, cost, shipping and delivery methods and timing, problem resolution, etc.
• Expedites or follows up on deliveries as appropriate to meet delivery requirements.
• Assists in surveys, site audits and analysis leading to supplier sourcing.
• Assists Buyer or Team Leader in reviewing supplier performance and makes recommendations on changes or disqualifications.
• Provides resolution of receipt and supplier invoice discrepancies.

Physical Demands, duties of this position are varied and will include:

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements (e.g., data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc.) are frequently required.

Additional Details
Area:
Supply Chain Management

Start Date:
May 2026

Location:
213 Harry Walker Dr South, Newmarket, ON

Vacancies:
1 position

Experience:
No formal experience is required.

Education:
Enrollment in an Internship/Co-op program completing 2nd or 3rd year of a 4-year University program specializing in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Finance, Science, or Math and Stats.

• As this position involves work that is subject to the Canadian Government's Controlled Goods Program (CGP), your employment offer is conditional upon the successful completion of a security assessment by Celestica and/or its authorized agents, per the Controlled Goods Regulations.

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Please provide a copy of your transcript with your application. Please include your student email address in your application.
Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

At Celestica we are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates throughout the hiring process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

This position involves technologies regulated by the Canadian government's Controlled Goods Program (CGP). Candidates must be Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada and meet all other requirements under CGP. Job offers will be conditional upon candidates undergoing a successful security screening per the Controlled Goods Regulations.

Company Overview
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world's best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.

Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.