2027 Summer Intern – Business Operations & Cost Optimization, Cadillac Racing Program Management

Job Description

The Role

Join the Cadillac Racing Program Management team as a Business Operations & Cost Optimization Intern supporting trackside and race-event operations. You will audit spend and processes, analyze budget-to-actual performance, and identify cost-cutting opportunities that improve efficiency, cost visibility, and business control without compromising performance, safety, or race readiness.

The Team

Cadillac Racing competes at the highest levels of global endurance racing, including the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and FIA World Endurance Championship. The Sportscar Program Management team coordinates the people, partners, budgets, and operations required to compete successfully. This role supports that team by strengthening financial discipline, operational efficiency, and measurable cost-reduction initiatives across the program.

What You’ll Do

Create a program spend baseline by organizing historical and forecasted costs across selected race-event, logistics, purchasing, travel, freight, equipment, hospitality, and operational activities. Conduct structured audits of processes and transactions to identify cost drivers, duplication, control gaps, compliance issues, and opportunities for improvement. Review budgets, invoices, purchase orders, forecasts, and actuals; reconcile discrepancies and organize findings into clear, actionable summaries. Build Excel-based analyses, dashboards, audit tools, and status reports that help Program Management leadership monitor spending, efficiency, and implementation progress. Quantify potential savings, develop a prioritized cost-reduction pipeline, and support business cases for approved cost-cutting measures. Present audit findings and recommendations to Program Management leadership, then help track actions, owners, timing, and realized savings through implementation. Assess inventory-control practices for trackside parts, spares, consumables, and equipment; reconcile records to actual usage and