Leadership Development Associate – Procurement and Supply Chain

Job Description

Procurement Leadership Development Associate | CSX

The Tone:
This is a full-time associate role, participating in an 18-month Leadership Development Program at CSX, a premier transportation company based in Jacksonville, FL. CSX is a Fortune 500 organization providing rail, intermodal, and rail-to-truck transload services across the eastern United States, integral to the nation’s economic and industrial development for nearly 200 years. This program is designed to cultivate future business leaders who will foster growth, efficiency, and innovation, empowering them to influence decisions, drive change, and contribute strategically to the company’s continued success.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person Jacksonville, FL

• Team: Full-time role within the procurement and supply chain department.
• Mission: Identify solutions and influence business decisions based on sound analysis and communication to foster growth, efficiency, and innovation within CSX.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office skills

What You’ll Actually Do
• Business Partnering: Build relationships with business partners to analyze marketing, operating, and capital projects, understanding economic tradeoffs to inform real-time business decisions.
• Cost Reduction: Identify opportunities to reduce costs within the corporate environment as well as other business units.
• Strategy Development: Help guide the development of short- and long-term strategies for supply chain and the procurement of resources.
• Economic Analysis: Help develop and utilize procurement strategies to quantify benefits and drive sound, fact-based economic decisions.
• Executive Communication: Consult and communicate analyses through presentations to senior management within the department and to business partners from other departments.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Business Management, Information Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, or Procurement from an accredited institution, required to be completed by June 2027.
• Experience: Demonstrated leadership through campus organizations, athletics, military service, work experience, community involvement, or research projects, along with a minimum overall grade point average of 3.0 (based on a 4-point scale).
• Skills: Ability to deliver presentations to senior level audiences, ability to analyze complex business issues and make sound business decisions, strong oral and written communication skills, and knowledge of corporate financial principles and practices.
• Bonus: Master’s degree from an accredited institution to be completed by June 2027, or 1 or more years of full-time, related work experience or 1 or more corporate related internships.