Sales Intern

faurecia S.A.; Auburn Hills (MI); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Part time

Job summary

FORVIA is seeking a year-round Sales Intern for its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The role focuses on supporting customer relations across Purchasing, Engineering, and Programs, including regular visits, meeting minutes, and preparing timely offers.

You will help with cost understanding, pricing strategy, and negotiating paths to convince customers. You will also assist in handling ECRs, tracking pricing impacts, and ensuring adherence to sales administration guidelines.

Qualifications

• Strong MS Office skills and reporting abilities.
• Comfortable with financials and cost data.
• Good communication, presentation skills, and empathy.
• Business international mindset and team orientation.
• Results orientation and client focus.

Responsibilities

• Support development of relationships with Customer contacts (Purchasing, Engineering, Programs) through regular visits, preparation, and minutes.
• Assist in preparing commercial offers by understanding costing files and targeting pricing and negotiation paths.
• Assist in handling Engineering Changes Requests (ECRs) and assess piece price, tooling, and D&D impacts.
• Monitor local economics (inflation, exchange rate) and support Sales Administration guidelines and processes.

Skills

MS Office

Excel

Reporting

Job description

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 Sales Intern for its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

• Support the development of the appropriate intimacy with the Customer contacts (Purchasing, Engineering, Programs) :
  • Regular visits with preparation and minutes
  • Build relationships with key staff in the client organization
  • Monitor the level of customer satisfaction at regular intervals or after each significant step
• Help Preparing the commercial offers to answer on due time to the Customer requests :
  • Get a good understanding of the costing files
  • Contribute in proposing and getting validated the targeted pricing and the negotiation path / tactics to convince the customer
  • Formalize the offer with the appropriate wording
  • Understand and apply the guidelines proposed by the hierarchy regarding contractual management
• Serial Life :
  • Help Preparing and negotiating the commercial answers to the customer ECRs ("Engineering Changes Requests")
  • Detailed understanding of piece price, tooling and D&D impact
  • Follow the Variable Cost Margin of the products
  • Prepare and follow commercial productivity proposals
  • Understanding and commercial management of local economics (inflation, exchange rate)
  • Understanding and rigorous implementation of the Sales Administration guidelines & processes (purchase orders, invoices, terms of payment, overdues…)
  • Commercial management for Spare Parts and Prototypes

Your profile and competencies to succeed

• Strong Microsoft pack office skills (specially excel)and reporting skills
• Comfortable with financials
• Good communication and presentation skills, and capacity of empathy
• Business international mindset
• Results orientation, Client orientation, and Team player
• Good analytical skills and Accountability

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..
• 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…)

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.