The summer before college, I participated in a shadow program at Lil' Drug Store Products, a consumer healthcare company with national retail distribution. The program gave me my first real look at how a mid-size business manages its finances, operations, and supply chain end-to-end.
I rotated through several departments — spending time with the finance team on budgeting and cost analysis, with logistics to understand how products move from manufacturing to retail, and with the commercial team observing how client partnerships are managed across major national retailers.
Seeing how decisions made in finance directly ripple into operations — and vice versa — gave me a more integrated understanding of business before I ever sat in a classroom. It reinforced why finance, done well, has to account for the whole operating picture.
Key Contributions
- —Rotated across finance, operations, and logistics teams at a consumer healthcare company with national retail distribution
- —Gained direct exposure to budgeting processes, cost structure analysis, supply chain management, and client partnership management