Texas McCombs Labs
One-year program packed with valuable knowledge and skill-building opportunities.
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ABOUT TEXAS McCOMBS LABS

  • Own a real industry role while earning course credit
  • Obtain experiential learning in a real-life ongoing position
  • Gain exposure to executive leadership
  • Receive mentorship from a dedicated industry coach

 

Key Elements of Texas McCombs Labs

  • Students are provided a company orientation and given full access to data/materials
  • Success criteria includes hard business results
  • Students are compensated for spring and fall semesters at rate comparable to minimum wage
  • Summer internship guaranteed at sponsoring company
  • Executive coaching provided to students
  • Earn six credit hours
  • All 1st year MBA students are eligible to apply
Texas McCombs Labs Info Session
10/29/24 from 3:30-5:30 | Rowling Hall

Apply: Texas McCombs Labs

Instructions

  • Login in to your RecruitTexasMBA account
  • Navigate to your “OCIs/RCs (all jobs)” tab
  • Select the OCIs/RCs sub tab
  • Type the Job Name in the search box and select search (see Job IDs below)
  • Click the job posting and select ‘Apply’
  • If logging in for the first time, complete acknowledgement process
  • All first year MBAs are eligible to apply
  • Sponsor companies will interview selected candidates
  • Deadline to apply is 11/7/24

Application Materials

  • Resume
  • Cover Letter – Please write a short paragraph describing why you are passionate about working on the selected company/project team.

Dell-Supply Chain- 2 Positions Available

Employer: MBA Brands, LLC

Job Name: TXMcCombsLabs-DellSupplyChain2025

International applications accepted.

Sonatype-Marketing – 1 Position Available

Employer: MBA Brands, LLC

Job Name: TXMcCombsLabs-SonatypeMarketing2025

This position is limited to persons eligible to work in the U.S. with no restrictions.

Questions?

If you have questions about the application process please contact:

Kimberly Gray
Sr. Administrative Associate
Center for Customer Insight & Marketing Solutions

2025 Lab Roles

Overview

  • 2025 roles with Dell and Sonatype
  • Applications open 10/29/24
  • Students may apply for one or multiple roles
  • All positions follow the same timeline and application process
  • Interviews are directly with the sponsoring company
  • Students will be notified in late November

Dell Supply Chain

A major driver of complexity is the wide range of small volume Configure-to-Order offers from Dell. To address this challenge, Dell is plans to leverage AI to create ‘resilient’ products with a strong supply chain backing without compromising Dell Business Health. Key stakeholders for this product are operations and sales executives and decision makers such as product line managers, supply chain managers, sales transformation managers.

The role will develop skills in dealing with ambiguity, analysis of large data sets/draw correlations, Power BI, Machine learning, statistical prowess, and deep understanding of supply chain, product operations and commercial go-to-market strategies.

Two candidates will be selected to work on this project together and will be assigned a former Dell executive as a coach to advise them on project direction, along with support from current Dell employees.

Deliverables

  • Identify immediate areas of improvement to increase visibility and management of offers especially during annual product transitions
  • Formulate and execute product designs and release plan to sustain improvements in value drivers
  • Develop an AI solution with technologists with steps followed to enable all design elements
  • Develop a holistic understanding of the organization through meetings in different cross-functional departments
  • Present findings to stakeholders after each semester and at the end of the summer internship

Timeline and Time Commitment

The Labs program is a one-year opportunity:

  • Spring Semester 2025 – on average 10-15 hours a week and counts as a 3 credit course
  • Full-Time Internship Summer 2025
  • Fall Semester 2025 – on average 10-15 hours a week and counts as a 3 credit course

Applications & ways to engage with the Dell team for this opportunity

Labs program information session: 10/29 at 3:30pm in RRH 4.408

Applications open: 10/29 on RTM

Application deadline: 11/7

Interviews: 11/12 – 11/21

Decisions: 11/26 

Contacts

Dell Labs Coordinator – Laure Morin: laure.morin@dell.comMcCombs MBA Alum ’24 and previous Dell Labs student

McCombs 2nd year MBA completing the Labs program this year: Riya Bali, riya.bali@mba.utexas.edu

McCombs Labs Director – Lamar Johnson: lamar.johnson@mccombs.utexas.edu

Sonatype Marketing

Strong interest in analyzing and improving marketing campaign performance, channel mix, and will be eager to learn industry standards and best practices for optimizing value.

  • Curiosity about B2B marketing for a technical buyer and audience.
  • Familiarity with account-based marketing and digital marketing channels
  • Willingness to learn Salesforce, Tableau, 6sense, and other demand gen tech stack tools

Key Responsibilities

  • Supervise the performance of paid media, social, display, content syndication, webinars and other marketing channels.
  • Analyze attributed pipeline, efficiency and conversion of each marketing channel.
  • Conduct in-depth analysis into ‘time-to-pipeline’ for various marketing channels
  • Research industry standards for various critical metrics.

We are hiring

Sonatype is looking for a Marketing Analytics Intern that will work on our Marketing Operations team, focusing on analyzing web and paid media trends, campaign performance, and industry standard methodologies for a growing B2B business owned by Austin-based Vista Equity Partners.