Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, FORVIA anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you’re willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, FORVIA is the place to be.

FORVIA is looking for a year-round Indirect Purchasing Intern for its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

The IdP Intern belongs to Group Indirect Purchasing (IdP) and is expected to assist with the day-to-day responsibilities within the Indirect purchasing group.

The main missions of the role are to:

1. Aid and contribute to productivity and cost saving actions:
   • Work closely with commodity buyers, plants, and plant departments to identify and run saving actions beyond price negotiation, such as best practices implementation, consumption reduction, technical optimization, standardization
   • Assist with productivity action plan involving suppliers
   • Help to drive benchmarking and best practices efforts at the plants in an effort to identify, implement, and contribute to cost savings at a plant, regional, national, and global level
     
     
2. Assist commodity buyers with any assigned IDP projects:
   a. Participate in the projects and competitive bids led by IDP’s Commodity teams. Assist with integrating the needs of the region. Contribute to data collection, specifications, and evaluation of the results.
   b. Assist with the implementation of the corporate contracts in the Region. Ensure implementation follow-up and regular audits of contract compliance.
   
   
3. Contribute to purchasing portfolio not covered by commodity contracts or projects in progress:
   
   a. Assist with consolidating recurrent local needs, manage and assist with competitive bids, work with the regional team to reduce supplier base and manage it through consistent contracts, involving Legal.
   b. Take in charge local one-shot needs, projects, negotiation and contracts
   c. Make sure that the above actions are consistent with the commodity strategy and identify subjects that could be generalized at national or corporate level to get a better benefit.
   
   
4. Assist in the management of the administrative purchase order process with IDP Procurement team :
   a. Assist buyers and plants with the purchase order process in the region and back up other regions when necessary.
   b. Work with and assist the team with payment issues and NRFT’s (not right first time).
   c. Assist the regional team to manage the supplier issues under purchasing responsibility, such as contract non-compliance, price agreements to be updated, price discrepancies between purchase order price and invoice prices.
   
   
5. Apply the methodology and tools defined and implemented by IDP, such as:
   a. Project management and associated reporting process, including cost savings tracking
   b. Ariba contract management to store and manage all contracts
   c. Proper application of SAP Purchasing modules
   d. All applicable Forvia Core Procedures

Your profile and competencies to succeed

The ideal candidate will have/be:

• A great, ready-to-work attitude
• Fit great without our current team’s culture
• Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Supply Chain
• Willing to work for a full year as an intern
• Results oriented with strong written and oral communications skills
• Ability to work in a matrixed organization
• Comfortable with local travel if necessary to assist commodity buyers both solo and accompanied with veteran buyer or Productivity Leader
• Have a strong Microsoft skill set (advanced in Excel would be a plus)

What we can do for you

• At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
• We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
• We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us

FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.

With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You'll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.

In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.

As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.