Sales Leadership Development Program

Faurecia • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

FORVIA North America is hiring for its three-year Sales Leadership Development Program (LDP), which provides long-term growth and development tailored to each participant’s academic background, needs, capabilities, and goals. The program includes three 12-month rotations across FORVIA facilities and, upon successful completion, placement in a permanent key position in the participant’s core field. The first rotation is based at a FORVIA facility, such as a manufacturing plant or technical center. Later rotations depend on the participant’s aspirations, business needs, and performance evaluations and may be at plants, technical centers, or North America headquarters.

Potential rotations include Deputy Program Manager, Acquisitions, and Sales Engineer / Serial Life. The Deputy Program Manager rotation supports program coordination, documentation, schedules, cross-functional collaboration, risk tracking, engineering changes, reviews, and the transition from development to production. The Acquisitions rotation supports customer RFQs, acquisition tracking, commercial proposals, costing and quotations, internal reviews, and alignment of customer requirements with technical and commercial proposals. The Sales Engineer / Serial Life rotation supports sales and account management, customer requests, RFQs, quotations, pricing, commercial documentation, engineering changes, cost and profitability tracking, customer meetings, value engineering, and business efficiency initiatives.

Participants develop leadership and decision-making skills through projects and daily work, gain cross-cultural experience, receive discipline-specific mentorship, build an organizational network, and participate in training and workshops. The role requires an interest in the automotive industry and manufacturing operations, and willingness to relocate at the conclusion of each rotation.

Requirements

• Pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Must graduate before December 2026.
• Strong interest in the automotive industry and manufacturing operations.
• Willingness to relocate at the conclusion of each rotation.

Nice To Haves

• Two or more years of relevant experience.
• Proficiency navigating ambiguity and matrix environments.
• Effective communication across all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to work in team environments.
• Highly motivated self-starter with problem-solving ability in a fast-paced environment.
• Analytical mindset and demonstrated ability to use data.
• Proficiency in another language, such as French or Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Develop leadership and decision-making skills through project assignments and daily responsibilities.
• Gain cross-cultural exposure and experience, receive mentorship, build a professional network, and participate in training sessions and workshops.
• Support program activities, milestones, deliverables, action plans, schedules, dashboards, business plans, KPIs, and documentation during the Deputy Program Manager rotation.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams and assist with program reviews, risk and opportunity tracking, engineering changes, customer-meeting preparation, and program transition into production.
• Support acquisition activities, customer RFQs, opportunity and milestone tracking, commercial proposals, costing, quotations, internal reviews, and customer discussions.
• Support sales and account management for assigned customer accounts and programs, including customer requests, RFQs, quotations, pricing, and commercial documentation.
• Track engineering changes and their commercial and profitability impacts, and help maintain accurate pricing and cost information.
• Work with cross-functional teams to address customer needs and requests and gain exposure to customer meetings, commercial reviews, and negotiations.
• Support Value Analysis/Value Engineering and other cost-improvement activities; monitor program performance and identify business-efficiency and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Share lessons learned and best practices across teams.

Benefits

• Mentorship from an expert in the participant’s core discipline.
• Training sessions and workshops.
• Learning tools and resources, including FORVIA University; employees average more than 22 hours of online and in-person training.
• Career development opportunities.
• Multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.

What This Job Offers

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