Purchasing Intern

The Purchasing Internship position offers you the opportunity to gain exposure and hands-on experience working at MANNHUMMEL. This position will provide challenging projects networking opportunities and a chance to learn from experienced supply chain/purchasing professionals

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Location: This internship is based in-person at our Portage MI facility.

Relocation assistance not available for this position.

Start: ASAP

Duration: 12-month minimum requirement (Internships can extend up to 24 months)

Hours per week:

- During School - 15 to 20 hours a week
- During Breaks - 20 to 40 hours a week (note - this includes winter spring and summer breaks)

Please include your unofficial transcript in your application

- Support commodity buyers on request for quote distribution/collection and determine applicable negotiation strategy

- Support commodity buyers to drive supplier business plan performance to target

- Support commodity buyers in reviewing bid proposals and negotiating contracts within budgetary limitations and scope of authority

- Works with commodity buyers to seek out cost savings opportunities via VA/VE design changes supplier negotiations and re-sourcing for responsible commodities

- Responsible for maintaining supplier related documentation through use of SAP and other web-based systems

- Support project managers in purchasing with project related tasks; timing orders deliveries

- Prepares standard reports/documentation to communicate results

- Completes basic tasks within purchasing

- dentifies areas for improvement suggests solutions and submits idea records

Education/Experience Requirements

Actively pursuing a bachelors in supply chain management business admin finance or engineering

- Current GPA 3.0 or better

Skills

Basic Knowledge of SAP and Microsoft Office