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Highmark Health · Summer 2027
Strategic Planning Intern: a project built for this posting
A Summer 2027 internship on Highmark Health's strategic planning team, supporting growth initiatives, research and analysis, and merger integration work. It suits business, economics and healthcare administration majors.
- Company
- Highmark Health
- Posting title
- Summer 2027 Strategic Planning Undergraduate Intern
- Location
- Pennsylvania (remote eligible)
- Season
- Summer 2027
- Majors named
- Business, Economics, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Management
Checked open on the employer's careers site on 2026-10-22. Read the full posting ↗
What this role is really testing
The project
Healthcare M&A Integration Playbook & Executive Brief
A polished, two-part artifact consisting of a one-page executive brief and a structured integration playbook that walks through a hypothetical acquisition of a regional provider by a large health system, covering strategic rationale, key risks, and a phased 90-day integration roadmap. This directly mirrors the intern's expected output, executive presentations, implementation playbooks, and M&A support, giving a recruiter something tangible to open and judge in under a minute.
- Research a real, recently announced or completed healthcare acquisition (e.g., a regional hospital, urgent care chain, or health-tech company absorbed by a large payer or health system) using public press releases, 10-K filings, and news sources; extract the stated strategic rationale, deal size if available, and the acquirer's stated growth goals, then synthesize these into a one-page Executive Brief structured as: Situation (what was acquired and why), Complication (the integration challenge or market pressure that made this necessary), and Recommendation (the top three strategic priorities the combined entity should pursue), written in clean, jargon-free prose at a level suitable for a C-suite audience.
- Build a 90-Day Integration Playbook as a structured table or timeline covering three phases, Days 1-30 (stabilize and assess), Days 31-60 (align and plan), Days 61-90 (execute and measure), with four workstreams running across all phases: Operations, Culture and Talent, Technology and Data, and Customer and Member Experience; for each cell in the table, write one concrete action item, one owner role (e.g., Chief Integration Officer, CHRO), and one success metric, so the document reads like a real deliverable a strategy team would hand to a business leader.
- Combine both artifacts into a single, well-formatted Google Doc or PDF with a cover page that includes a mock project title, your name as 'Strategic Planning Analyst,' the date, and a confidentiality notice; apply consistent heading hierarchy, a muted color scheme, and at least one simple visual, a phase-gate timeline or a 2x2 risk-versus-impact matrix of the top four integration risks, so that a recruiter opening the file sees immediately that you can produce polished, executive-ready strategy documents, not just bullet-point notes.
Free account. Provieo walks you through it and turns it into a page with a link you can put on your application. This posting comes with you.
Questions
Do I need to know how to code?
No. For roles like this one, Provieo builds the project as a live case-study page: slides, tables and findings you fill in. You bring the thinking.
Where did this project come from?
Provieo read the Highmark Health posting and generated it on 2026-10-22. If you paste the same posting yourself you may get a different project, so two applicants don't show up with the same one.
Is Provieo connected to Highmark Health?
No. This is an independent project idea based on a public posting. It does not guarantee an interview.