AI Process Automation Intern – Inventory & Tableau

Books A Million; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Part time

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Job summary

Books-A-Million is looking for an AI Process Developer Intern for Spring 2027 at the Birmingham, AL corporate office. The role combines data analytics with AI-driven automation to modernize inventory planning and replenishment using tools like Claude and Tableau.

The internship is part-time (up to 20 hours/week) from January 25 to April 23, 2027, offering hands-on experience working with Snowflake data and a mentorship from senior leaders in Merchandising Planning and Allocations.

Qualifications

• Rising junior or rising senior pursuing a degree in business such as Finance, Business, or Business Operations.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing and working with large data sets.
• Proficiency in Excel.
• Experience using AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT.

Responsibilities

• Build end-to-end automation for 3–5 Merchandising processes identified before the program starts.
• Create automation in reporting, inventory replenishment, and store group maintenance processes.
• Use AI tools such as Claude, along with Tableau, to replace manual steps and reduce redundancies in legacy processes.
• Develop new tools to evaluate merchandise inventory planning, evaluation, and replenishment models.
• Work with large data sets, including data from our Snowflake data warehouse, to support reporting and analysis.
• Build and refine reports in Tableau, our new reporting engine.
• Partner with the Planning and Allocations team to understand current processes and confirm automated outputs meet their needs.
• Document each automated process so the team can maintain and use it after the internship.
• Present results and time savings to Merchandising leadership in a capstone presentation at the end of the program.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strong problem-solving skills

Experience with large data sets

Experience using AI tools

Education

Rising junior or rising senior pursuing a degree in business

Tools

Excel

Claude

ChatGPT

Tableau

Snowflake

Job description

Books-A-Million is looking for an AI Process Developer Intern for Spring 2027 at the Birmingham, AL corporate office. The role combines data analytics with AI-driven automation to modernize inventory planning and replenishment using tools like Claude and Tableau.

The internship is part-time (up to 20 hours/week) from January 25 to April 23, 2027, offering hands-on experience working with Snowflake data and a mentorship from senior leaders in Merchandising Planning and Allocations.