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 product management team with market analysis. Projects will include detailed, web-based cross-comparison analysis of competitor’s offerings against Ketera’s, market size estimation, and market positioning/messaging analysis. Part time OK. Some consultation hours onsite at our San Jose (Santana Row) offices are required but potentially some work could be done offsite. Internship will give you a solid sense of the huge spend management huge market, who the players are, what potential job opportunities there are with Ketera or other local vendors, and some market analysis experience you can put on your resume. You will also have an opportunity to work with a world-class product management team defining a cutting edge business product line, and will get a sense of SaaS product development life cycles. Requirements: reasonable basis in micro and macro economics. Reasonable sense of business purchasing processes (workflow for invoices, purchase orders, terms-based payment). Power user skills with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.