Purchasing Intern (Year-Round)

Valeo • Troy, MI

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Valeo is a global tech company focused on reinventing mobility with innovative solutions for greener, safer, and smarter transportation. As a Purchasing Intern, you will support the North America Purchasing team by enhancing reporting quality, data accuracy, purchasing system visibility, and process efficiency. This role is ideal for an analytical, curious, and detail-oriented student comfortable with data, systems, and digital tools. The intern will not only prepare reports but also understand data insights, identify improvements, and utilize tools like Gemini, Looker Studio, and Google Sheets to optimize purchasing activities. The position requires a year-round commitment, with full-time availability during the summer and part-time during the school year, based on class schedules. Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without future visa sponsorship.

Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Analytics, Management Information Systems, Finance, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
• Analytical, curious, and detail-oriented.
• Comfortable working with data, systems, and digital tools.
• Available to work full-time throughout the summer and part-time during the school year pending class schedule.
• Authorized to work in the US without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

• Coursework or experience in procurement, supply chain, data analysis, reporting, business systems, process improvement, or AI-enabled productivity tools.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, maintain, and enhance recurring purchasing reports, dashboards, trackers, and KPI summaries to support timely business visibility.
• Collect, validate, and organize monthly purchasing data to ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to support purchasing leadership, commodity teams, Finance, and regional stakeholders with clear, data-driven insights.
• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, duplicates, anomalies, and reporting issues, and support corrective actions to improve data quality and decision-making.
• Support purchasing system administration by tracking user access requests, user rights, workflow profiles, approval roles, and related follow-up actions.
• Assist with monitoring data accuracy and consistency across purchasing systems, reporting platforms, and master-data records.
• Support testing of system updates, new functionalities, workflow changes, and system enhancements by documenting results, issues, and user feedback.
• Help coordinate open actions between Purchasing, IS, Finance, and system support teams to ensure timely resolution of system-related topics.
• Identify process improvement opportunities by reviewing recurring purchasing activities, reporting workflows, trackers, and manual follow-up tasks that can be simplified or better structured.
• Support the development of practical AI and automation-enabled tools that improve purchasing control, efficiency, data quality, and decision-making across sites.
• Document lessons learned and improvement ideas to support knowledge sharing, repeatable processes, and stronger adoption across the purchasing team.
• Assist with supplier compliance, supplier risk, and purchasing process monitoring.
• Support tracking of action plans related to audits, self-assessments, internal reviews, and compliance campaigns.
• Support periodic purchasing compliance reviews and internal control activities.
• Help identify missing documentation, incomplete files, or process gaps requiring follow-up.

Benefits

• Opportunity to contribute to meaningful business impact.
• Exposure to procurement analytics, compliance, purchasing systems, AI-enabled tools, and cross-functional business processes.
• Opportunity to collaborate with talented teams across Purchasing, Finance, Systems, Operations, and other functions.
• A learning environment that supports curiosity, ownership, professional growth, and practical problem-solving.
• An inclusive and diverse workplace that encourages both personal and professional development.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern