Sales Intern: Create cross-functional impact with data

Faurecia; Northville (MI); On-site; USD 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

FORVIA is seeking a year-round Sales Intern for our Northville, MI location to learn how a global automotive business operates from the commercial front line. You will study processes, identify improvements, and help implement practical tools and dashboards.

You will collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Program Management, and other functions to drive measurable impact and gain exposure to real customer, operational, and financial challenges within a leading sustainable mobility company.

Qualifications

• Actively pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mathematics, economics, physics, computer science, business, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
• Previous internship or sales experience is not required.
• Interest in business, customers, technology, and organizations.
• Enjoy solving complex problems.
• Comfortable working with incomplete or imperfect data.
• Communicate complex ideas in a simple and structured way.
• Willingness to understand detailed operational work before proposing changes.
• Collaborate effectively with people from different functions and backgrounds.
• Take ownership and follow ideas through implementation.
• Comfortable presenting your work and facilitating discussions.

Responsibilities

• Participate in recurring sales activities to understand the business, its customers, and its processes.
• Observe and map how commercial and cross-functional processes are performed in practice.
• Analyze data to identify inefficiencies, delays, inconsistencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Challenge existing ways of working with facts, curiosity, and respect for the people involved.
• Develop practical tools, models, dashboards, and process improvements to support new processes.
• Explore how AI and other technologies can reduce repetitive work and improve decision quality.
• Work with different functions to understand root causes of commercial and organizational problems.
• Test proposed solutions with selected teams or customer accounts.
• Measure the impact of improvements and adjust solutions based on feedback.
• Prepare and lead workshops to share observations, findings, and recommendations.
• Assist teams to make faster and better-informed decisions.
• Document lessons and create scalable solutions.

Skills

Excel & data analysis

Power BI

Python/SQL

Automation tools

AI applications

Statistics/Finance/Economics

Process optimization

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

Job description

FORVIA is seeking a year-round Sales Intern for our Northville, MI location to learn how a global automotive business operates from the commercial front line. You will study processes, identify improvements, and help implement practical tools and dashboards.

You will collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Program Management, and other functions to drive measurable impact and gain exposure to real customer, operational, and financial challenges within a leading sustainable mobility company.