Sales Intern

Forvia, a sustainable mobility technology leader

New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, FORVIA anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you're willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow's cleaner and smarter mobility, FORVIA is the place to be.

FORVIA is looking for a year-round Sales Intern for its headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Overall responsibilities and duties:

At FORVIA Seating, we give early career talent real responsibility, customer exposure, and a clear path to a full-time role. As part of our Sales and Program Management team, you will be integrated into our EV market activities, working directly with EV brands to understand each customer's expectations and way of working.

Based at our R&D Center in Auburn Hills, MI, the Program & Sales Engineer Intern supports the Sales & Serial Manager across Program, Serial Life, Development, and Acquisition topics. This internship offers driven individuals' hands on learning, broad exposure to commercial and program activities, and opportunities to participate in key customer interactions, including face to face events and cross functional reviews.

The main missions of the role are:

• Gain exposure to cross‑functional teams, business challenges, senior leaders, and customers

• Build leadership, communication, and decision‑making skills through real project work.

• Support sales activities

• Work with commercial and program teams to understand customer expectations and processes.

• Learn core financial concepts such as cost drivers, inflation effects, and cost structures.

• Contribute to propose and get validated the targeted pricing and the negotiation path / tactics to convince the customer

• Help Preparing and negotiating the commercial answers to the customer ECRs ("Engineering Changes Requests")

• Detailed understanding of piece price, tooling and D&D impact

• Understanding and commercial management of local economics (inflation, exchange rate)

• Understanding and rigorous implementation of the Sales Administration guidelines & processes (purchase orders, invoices, terms of payment, overdues…)

• Commercial management for Spare Parts

• Serial program activities

• Review customer change requests and understand cost, tooling, and development impacts.

• Contribute to cost‑saving ideas and continuous‑improvement projects.

• Learn how economic factors influence commercial outcomes.

• Support sales administration (POs, invoices, overdue tracking) and spare‑parts pricing.

• Coordinate prototype builds, order materials, track timing and deliveries.

• Learn internal cost structures, support quote preparation, and assist with profitability reviews and related documentation.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Skills & Competencies:

The ideal candidate brings a strong business mindset and a passion for transforming data into actionable insights that drive informed decision‑making. Understands how things work, asks the right questions, and works closely with internal and external stakeholders.

• Fluent in English
• Strong Microsoft pack office skills (excel, word, powerpoint,…) and reporting skills
• Comfortable with financials
• Good communication and presentation skills, and capacity of empathy
• Business international mindset
• Results orientation, Client orientation, and Team player
• Good analytical skills and Accountability
• Business, technical, or data major
• Minimum 2.8 GPA

What we can do for you

• At Forvia, you will find an engaging and dynamic environment where you can contribute to the development of sustainable mobility leading technologies.
• We are the seventh-largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in more than 40 countries which makes a lot of opportunity for career development.
• We welcome energetic and agile people who can thrive in a fast-changing environment. People who share our strong values. Team players with a collaborative mindset and a passion to deliver high standards for our clients. Lifelong learners. High performers. Globally minded people who aspire to work in a transforming industry, where excellence, speed, and quality count.
• 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.
• Achieving CO2 Net Zero as a pioneer of the automotive industry is a priority: In June 2022, Forvia became the first global automotive group to be certified with the new SBTI Net-Zero Standard (the most ambitious standard of SBTi), aligned with the ambition of the 2015 Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Three principles guide our action: use less, use better and use longer, with a focus on recyclability and circular economy.

Why join us

FORVIA is an automotive technology group at the heart of smarter and more sustainable mobility. We bring together expertise in electronics, clean mobility, lighting, interiors, seating, and lifecycle solutions to drive change in the automotive industry.

With a history stretching back more than a century, we are the 7th largest global automotive supplier, employing more than 157,000 people in 43 countries. You''ll find our technology in around 1 out of 2 vehicles produced anywhere in the world.

In June 2022, we became the 1st global automotive group to be certified with the SBTI Net-Zero Standard. We have committed to reach CO2 Net Zero by no later than 2045.

As technological innovation and the need for sustainability transform the automotive industry, we are ideally positioned to deliver solutions that will enhance the lives of road-users everywhere.