Ketera is the leading provider of On Demand Spend Management solutions. The company’s groundbreaking vision and software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings are changing the economics of spend management, enabling businesses to control and reduce corporate spending as well as access the world’s fastest growing community of buyers and suppliers. Ketera provides a complete suite of applications, services and community networks for spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, procurement, supplier enablement & content management, supplier performance management, and invoice management. We are now building, on top of the suite of transactional software, a company-company social networking engine to allow companies to discover and collaborate with new business partners. Many of the world’s leading enterprise companies, including ServiceMaster, American Express, Kennametal, Con-way, and Northrop Grumman Corporation, depend on Ketera’s solutions to realize purchasing savings quickly. Ketera’s investors include Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Emergence Capital Partners, Foundation Capital, and Integral Capital Partners.
For more information about the Ketera Spend Management suite of services and the Ketera Network, please visit: http://www.ketera.com/index.html
Internship Description
Assist Ketera’s business managers with monitoring and moderating the content on Ketera’s business discussion forums. You will gain a strong sense of what it takes to create and foster a vibrant online business community. One particular project we are considering is a forum on sustainable procurement and managing sustainable supply chains and if approved this project would also give you significant experience in the vibrant and rapidly evolving sustainable procurement domain. Due to extensive interaction and collaboration in the development of these artifacts, most work must be onsite at our San Jose (Santana Row) offices but potentially some work could be done offsite. Requirements: Fantastic communication skills particularly in written form. Good sense of the difference between business communications and personal communications. (You can’t be as informal on our forums as you might be on MySpace or Twitter, though there is room for personal style.) Must be able to quickly learn the argot of business procurement so as to be able to discern the difference between various quality levels of forum content.