Indirect Purchasing Intern

Faurecia•Auburn Hills, MI

11d•Onsite

About The Position

Forvia is looking for a year-round Indirect Purchasing Intern for its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan. The Indirect Purchasing Intern belongs to Group Indirect Purchasing (IdP) and is expected to assist with the day-to-day responsibilities within the Indirect purchasing group.

Requirements

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)

Nice To Haves

A great, ready-to-work attitude
Fit great without our current team’s culture

Responsibilities

Aid and contribute to productivity and cost saving actions by working 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.
Assist commodity buyers with any assigned IDP projects, including participating in projects and competitive bids led by IDP’s Commodity teams, assisting with integrating the needs of the region, and contributing to data collection, specifications, and evaluation of the results.
Assist with the implementation of the corporate contracts in the Region, ensuring implementation follow-up and regular audits of contract compliance.
Contribute to purchasing portfolio not covered by commodity contracts or projects in progress by assisting with consolidating recurrent local needs, managing and assisting with competitive bids, working with the regional team to reduce supplier base and manage it through consistent contracts, involving Legal.
Take charge of local one-shot needs, projects, negotiation and contracts.
Ensure 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.
Assist in the management of the administrative purchase order process with IDP Procurement team, including assisting buyers and plants with the purchase order process in the region and backing up other regions when necessary.
Work with and assist the team with payment issues and NRFT’s (not right first time).
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.
Apply the methodology and tools defined and implemented by IDP, such as project management and associated reporting process, including cost savings tracking, Ariba contract management to store and manage all contracts, proper application of SAP Purchasing modules, and all applicable Forvia Core Procedures.