Sales Intern

Summary: Forvia is a sustainable mobility technology leader focused on developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. They are seeking a year-round Sales Intern to support the Sales and Program Management team, gaining exposure to EV market activities and customer interactions while assisting with various sales and program-related tasks. Responsibilities: - 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 Required Qualifications: - 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 Required Skills: Microsoft Office, Financial concepts, Sales administration, Commercial management, Data analysis, Business mindset, Empathy, Results orientation, Client orientation Benefits: Average of more than 22 hours of online and in-person training within FORVIA University