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 location in Northville, MI

Your mission, roles and responsibilities

Join our team as a Sales Intern within our Commercial Excellence Lab!

The Commercial Excellence Lab is a small team within Sales in our Clarion Electronics division created to bring fresh thinking, analytical talent, and new technology into the way we work. This is not a traditional Sales Intern position.

You will learn how a global automotive business operates from the commercial front line, but your role will go beyond supporting existing processes. You will study how work is performed, identify opportunities for improvement, develop practical solutions, test them with the organization, and help put them into practice. Although this role is based within Sales, its scope is cross-functional. Commercial performance depends on how effectively Sales works with Finance, Engineering, Program Management, Purchasing, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, IT, and other functions.

We are looking for curious, early-career talent who desire to understand how a complex global organization works with willingness to challenge it constructively. We are more interested in your ability to learn and solve problems than in a long list of existing software certifications.

Responsibilities

• Participate in recurring sales activities to understand the business, its customers, and its processes (approximately 20-25% of the role).
• Observe and map how commercial and cross-functional processes are performed in practice.
• Analyze data to identify inefficiencies, delays, inconsistencies, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Challenge existing ways of working with facts, curiosity, and respect for the people involved.
• Develop practical tools, models, dashboards, and process improvements to support the successful implementation of new processes.
• Explore how AI and other technologies can reduce repetitive work and improve decision quality.
• Work with different functions to understand the root causes of commercial and organizational problems.
• Test proposed solutions with selected teams or customer accounts.
• Measure the impact of improvements and adjust solutions based on feedback.
• Prepare and lead workshops to share observations, findings, and recommendations.
• Assist teams to make faster and better-informed decisions.
• Document lessons and create solutions that can be scaled across the organization.

Projects May Include:

• Reduce the time required to prepare and approve customer quotations.
• Improve sales forecasts and opportunity-probability assessments.
• Automate recurring reports, meeting preparation, and action tracking.
• Improve the quality and usefulness of CRM information.
• Conduct customer, competitor, and market research to support business insights.
• Identify duplicated work across Excel, email, PowerPoint, and business systems.
• Improve pricing, profitability, and commercial-risk visibility.
• Strengthen the tracking of customer commitments and commercial recoveries.
• Simplify cross-functional handoffs and approval processes.
• Apply data and technology to improve customer responsiveness and execution.

Your profile and competencies to succeed

Qualifications:

• Actively pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree throughout mathematics, economics, physics, computer science, business, statistics, engineering, or related fields.
• Previous internship or sales experience is not required.
• Interest in business, customers, technology, and organizations.
• Enjoy solving complex problems.
• Comfortable working with incomplete or imperfect data.
• Communicate complex ideas in a simple and structured way.
• Willingness to understand detailed operational work before proposing changes.
• Collaborate effectively with people from different functions and backgrounds.
• Take ownership and follow ideas through implementation.
• Comfortable presenting your work and facilitating discussions.

Valued Skills and Capabilities

Experience with some of the following is helpful but not required:

• Excel and data analysis.
• Power BI or similar visualization tools.
• Python, SQL, or other analytical tools.
• Automation tools.
• Artificial intelligence applications.
• Statistical, financial, or economic analysis.
• Manage complexity, manage ambiguity, optimize work processes.

What You will Gain

As part of the Commercial Excellence Lab, you will receive:

• Direct exposure to a global automotive Sales organization.
• Access to real customer, commercial, operational, and financial challenges.
• Experience working across multiple business functions.
• Ownership of projects from analysis through implementation.
• Opportunities to present findings to commercial and functional leadership.
• Practical experience applying data, technology, and structured problem-solving.
• A broad understanding of how a complex international organization competes and makes decisions.
• Mentorship and feedback from experienced business leaders.
• The opportunity to create measurable impact early in your career.

The Commercial Excellence Lab is for individuals who do not want to spend the beginning of their careers only observing from the sidelines. You will be expected to learn, question, build, test, communicate, and improve. You will perform some of the foundational work required to understand the business, but you will not be limited to paperwork or routine support. Your main responsibility will be to help us see what we can improve and work with us to make it happen.

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, a global automotive technology supplier, comprises the complementary technology and industrial strengths of Faurecia and HELLA.

With over 137 500 people, including more than 12,000 R&D engineers across 40+ countries, FORVIA provides a unique and comprehensive approach to the automotive challenges of today and tomorrow. Composed of 6 business groups and a strong IP portfolio of over 12,400 patents, FORVIA is focused on becoming the preferred innovation and integration partner for OEMs worldwide.

In 2025, the Group achieved a consolidated revenue of 26.2 billion euros prior to IFRS 5. FORVIA SE is listed on the Euronext Paris market under the FRVIA mnemonic code and is a component of the SBF 120 index.

FORVIA aims to be a change maker committed to foreseeing and making the mobility transformation happen. www.forvia.com