Business Analyst Intern
The Company
RightShip is the world’s biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices.
We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services.
Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling “win-win” for business and the environment.
To find out more visit RightShip.com.
What we offer
We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices.
We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you’re working with us.
What makes RightShip a great place to work at:
RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.
Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for a motivated and analytical Business Analyst / Data Analyst Intern to join our Transformation, Investment and Strategy team for a 3-month internship. You will work across business units to uncover opportunities for improvement, validate ideas with data, and support RightShip’s ongoing innovation and digital transformation journey.
This role offers a unique opportunity to work hands-on with data, business stakeholders, and decision-makers to drive meaningful outcomes. We welcome applications from candidates who thrive on curiosity, critical thinking, and challenging the status quo.
Major Responsibilities
- Understand and map key business processes across functions to identify potential inefficiencies or gaps.
- Engage with key stakeholders across the business value chain to understand workflows, needs, and pain points.
- Formulate hypotheses based on business observations and emerging issues, and use data and research to validate or challenge those assumptions.
- Perform detailed data analysis with SQL, Python/R, etc. and synthesis using internal datasets and research to deliver actionable insights.
- Develop reports, dashboards, and visualizations using tools like Power BI or Excel that enable clear decision-making.
- Present findings to stakeholders with strong communication, storytelling, and visualization skills—translating data into business insights.
- Proactively challenge assumptions and suggest alternative viewpoints or improvements.
- Support ad-hoc business improvement initiatives, market intelligence, or process redesign projects as needed.
- What could a day look like? You might start by mapping out how a specific internal process works, identifying key data points that reflect performance, and asking what those numbers are really telling us. Are there inefficiencies? Bottlenecks? You’ll be digging into the “why,” then proposing real, data-backed actions that help us do things better, faster, or smarter.
Qualifications, Skills & Attributes
- Proficiencies with SQL and PowerBI are required, other analysis tools such as Python/R are good to have. (You can use GenAI tools to help but a good foundation is required)
- Currently pursuing or recently graduated from a Bachelor’ s or Master’s program in Business, Maritime Studies, Business Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Economics, or related fields.
- Strong foundation in business analysis and data exploration techniques.
- Comfortable with quantitative and qualitative analysis, as well as hypothesis-driven problem solving.
- Self-starter with an inquisitive mindset and a drive to learn and contribute from day one.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to engage diverse stakeholders and tell a data driven story to the audience
- Critical thinker who isn’t afraid to speak up or question existing norms.
- Able to work independently, manage timelines, and deliver tangible outcomes within a limited timeframe.
- Experience and exposure to the maritime industry is advantageous but not necessary.
RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.
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