Faurecia, a leader in sustainable mobility technology, is seeking an Indirect Purchasing Intern to assist with day-to-day responsibilities within the Indirect Purchasing group. The intern will aid in productivity and cost-saving actions, support commodity buyers, and contribute to various purchasing projects.
Responsibilities
Aid and contribute to productivity and cost saving actions:
Work 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:
Participate in the projects and competitive bids led by IDP’s Commodity teams. Assist with integrating the needs of the region. Contribute to data collection, specifications, and evaluation of the results
Assist with the implementation of the corporate contracts in the Region. Ensure implementation follow-up and regular audits of contract compliance
Contribute to purchasing portfolio not covered by commodity contracts or projects in progress:
Assist with consolidating recurrent local needs, manage and assist with competitive bids, work with the regional team to reduce supplier base and manage it through consistent contracts, involving Legal
Take in charge local one-shot needs, projects, negotiation and contracts
Make sure 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 :
Assist buyers and plants with the purchase order process in the region and back 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
All applicable Forvia Core Procedures
Qualification
Required
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)
A great, ready-to-work attitude
Fit great without our current team's culture
Preferred
We cultivate a learning environment, dedicating tools and resources to ensure we remain at the forefront of mobility. Our people enjoy an average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University (five campuses around the world)
We offer a multicultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration. We believe that diversity is a strength. To create an inclusive culture where all forms of diversity create real value for the company, we have adopted gender diversity targets and inclusion action plans.
Faurecia is a world's leading automotive tech company designing solutions for a safe, personalized, connected and sustainable mobility.
