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    Early Careers: Health and Benefits Internship – Midwest – Summer 2025

    Chicago, Illinois, United States. Detroit, Michigan, United States

    Early Careers: Health and Benefits Internship – Midwest – Summer 2025

    • 202406167
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States
    • Detroit, Michigan, United States
    • Full time
    • Closing on: Dec 27 2024

    Description

    Employment-based non-immigrant visa sponsorship and/or assistance is not offered for this specific job opportunity.

    The Business

    Create your future.  Our Health and Benefits business helps large and mid-size clients control soaring health and welfare plan costs, improve health outcomes and promote employee engagement through broad-based, state-of-the-art interventions.  We provide solutions encompassing creative plan design, vendor evaluation and management, pricing and funding strategies, data analytics, valuation support, and legal compliance and governance strategies.  We also provide specialty consulting services including clinical/health management program design, pharmacy solutions, disability/absence management strategies and claims audit services.  Product-based solutions such as our pharmacy purchasing coalition round out our broad-based suite of offerings. 

    Explore an opportunity.  As a Health and Benefits Intern, you will work beside some of the industry’s top consultants while you progress toward becoming a thought leader of the future. 

    You will have immediate exposure to real client assignments which will draw on your imagination and creativity as well as your ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and present results. These experiences will help build your technical knowledge and overall industry expertise. In addition, you will have twice-weekly learning and networking sessions with colleagues and leaders in Health and Benefits and other WTW businesses. 

    Love your work.  You will partner with consultants to provide assistance on projects through: 

    • Supporting clients with benefit plan analysis, design, cost savings, and benchmarking
    • Analyzing and comparing vendor products, services, and contracts 
    • Evaluating responses to surveys and RFPs 

    Qualifications

    Role Requirements. 

    • Progress towards a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mathematics, statistics, finance, public health, health management, actuarial science or any other major with significant quantitative course work with a minimum overall GPA of 3.0  
    • For Actuarial students: Successful completion of one or more actuarial exams highly preferred  
    • Work experience that demonstrates strong technical and/or client service skills (analyst type of internship preferred)  
    • Passion for solving problems and sharing solutions to exceed the standards of the client  
    • Ability to be a self-starter and work independently, but also cooperatively in a close team environment  
    • Excellent oral and written communication skills  
    • Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Excel 
    • This is a hybrid position that requires you to be local and able to commute to one of the offices in the region you are applying for. The Midwest region includes Detroit, MI and Chicago, IL
    • Able to work legally in the United States indefinitely and without Visa sponsorship
    • Accepting applications from candidates that graduate with a bachelor’s or master’s degree between December 2025 through June 2026

    The Application-Interview Process:

    Step 1: Online application, including resume/CV 

    Step 2: Online assessments and Video Interview 

    Step 3: Virtual Interview with business 

    Step 4: Offer and on-boarding

    Recruiting tips: 

    WTW specializes in preparing for the unknown.  Here’s how to get ready for the big day: https://careers.wtwco.com/hints-and-tips/

    EOE, including disability/vets

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