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Student Intern, Buyer

Location: Newmarket, ON, CA

16 Month Internship

As a global technology leader, Celestica designs, engineers, and manufactures industry-leading products and services that drive customer success and market advancement. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, we bring together over 33,000 employees across more than 45 sites in North America, Europe, and Asia.

With deep expertise in design, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management and platform solutions, Celestica enables critical data center infrastructure for AI, cloud, and hybrid cloud and advances technologies in high-growth markets. Working with the world’s leading technology companies across a broad range of industries, Celestica helps its customers achieve a competitive advantage.These products span key areas such as data centre technology, aerospace and defense, healthtech, and capital equipment.

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 current 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 Student Intern, Buyer (Buying Associate) is a 16‑month internship role within Celestica's Global Business Services (GBS) Supply Chain Management team. The intern acts as a key operational team member supporting Buying, Planning,



Supplier Quality Engineering (SQE), and Procurement Operations. The role focuses on executing day‑to‑day purchasing activities, resolving supplier and logistics bottlenecks, maintaining accurate supply chain data, and tracking quality metrics to support ongoing production and New Product Introduction (NPI) projects.

Supply Chain & Purchasing Fundamentals: Basic understanding of purchasing practices, procurement procedures, and supply chain management.

Data Management & Analytics: Strong proficiency in Google Sheets and Microsoft Excel, along with knowledge of Power BI.

Multitasking & Detail Orientation: Ability to evaluate, prioritize, and manage multiple complex tasks under tight deadlines while maintaining high accuracy.

Cross‑Functional Communication: Effective written and verbal communication skills to coordinate between internal departments (Quality, Logistics, Master Data Management, Planning) and external vendors.

Operational Problem‑Solving: Capability to troubleshoot and resolve shipment holds, missing documentation, and invoice/po discrepancies.

Activities:

- Converting approved requisitions to purchase orders and working with suppliers to obtain delivery confirmations.
- Working with suppliers to adjust confirmations as business needs dictate.
- Taking appropriate escalation actions when delivery dates and business needs do not align.
- Issuing Requests for Quotes (RFQs) to vendors for component services (e.g., Tape & Reel packaging), confirming Minimum Order Quantities (MOQ), pricing, and lead times.
- Tracking and publishing various metrics, and following up as needed.

📌 Student Intern, Buyer (Newmarket)
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