Year-Round Purchasing Intern

Faurecia • Auburn Hills, MI

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About The Position

Join our purchasing team as a Steel Commodity Buyer Intern and collaborate to build and deploy the Steel commodity strategy within USA and Mexico. Purchasing intern will contribute to analyze and putting together key information that will help for negotiation with suppliers, but also participate to initiatives driving strategy implementation. Through successful completion of these tasks and projects the Intern will obtain experience and knowledge within their field of educational pursuit.

Responsibilities

• Support RFQ processes to obtain competitive supplier offers.
• Analyze proposals for cost, quality, and delivery performance.
• Participate and contribute to supplier negotiations with the Commodity Leader.
• Generating and monitoring monthly reports for strategic management reviews.
• Follow up on and consolidate essential steel market and index data.
• Identify and suggest cost-saving opportunities and process improvements.
• Track and support cost reduction initiatives across plants and suppliers.
• Collaborate with engineering, quality, and logistics teams to align purchasing goals.
• Monitor project milestones and supplier readiness to ensure strategy execution.
• Create purchase requisitions in SAP with accuracy and timeliness.
• Manage purchase orders, confirmations, and deliveries to maintain smooth supply.
• Champion sustainability initiatives by tracking supplier actions and supporting CO₂ reduction efforts.

Benefits

• Engaging and dynamic environment.
• Opportunities for career development.
• Access to more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University.
• Multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration.
• Commitment to CO2 Net Zero by 2045.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees