Center of Excellence Student

Overview

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What We Offer At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Transforming mobility. Making automotive technology that is smarter, cleaner, safer and lighter. That’s what we’re passionate about at Magna Powertrain, and we do it by creating world-class powertrain systems. We are a premier supplier for the global automotive industry with full capabilities in design, development, testing and manufacturing of complex powertrain systems. Our name stands for quality, environmental consciousness, and safety.

Innovation is what drives us and we drive innovation. Dream big and create the future of mobility at Magna Powertrain.

Mission of the Position: The purchasing Student is responsible for supporting the Center of Excellence Team (CoE). The CoE is a global team covering purchasing process, systems, trade compliance and Finance. Our student will support improvements, implementations, and administration work for existing and new projects within the CoE Magna Powertrain Group.

Key Responsibilities

• Complete Forms related to Risk management.
• Follow up with commodities for missing information
• Work with plants on monthly data alignments and improvements
• Work with EU colleagues to understand and support the supplier risk management tasks
• Enter/ update suppliers in platforms
• Support automation projects for Spend and Cost Savings
• Work with IT to support the creation of Power BI dashboards
• Learn current processes and systems to support improvements, including risk management
• Maintain lists and create reports
• Develop knowledge of AI market technologies and deliver bi‑weekly briefings to the CoE Director on emerging trends and industry insights
• Learn Trade compliance and support implementation of projects
• Adhoc analysis

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Exposure to all areas of purchasing such as processes, systems and reporting
• Good understanding of cost savings and spend
• Understanding of supplier risk management
• Gaining experience working with global plants with multicultural facilities

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

• Minimum 3.0 GPA strongly preferred.
• Enrolled in a business program with an accredited school.
• Strong knowledge in excel
• Ability to deal with large data and visualization tools (Power BI) is a plus
• Strong organizational/communication skills
• Self-driven
• Ability to work with others in a team environment

• Practice and maintain integrity while following Magna’s Charter and Constitution.
• Follow Magna’s Code of Conduct and Ethics and related compliance policies.
• Supports and adheres to policies, procedures, and operational guidelines related to established quality management system (IATF 16949).
• Drive the development of new technologies to improve quality, efficiency and reduce cost.
• Comply with safety policies and procedures to ensure duties of self are performed in a safe manner.
• Health & Safety responsibilities:
  • Understand applicable Environmental, Health & Safety policies and procedures in the workplace.
  • Report unsafe conditions immediately.
  • Report injuries, accidents, illnesses, near misses, property damage immediately.
  • Follow safety rules.
  • Comply with requirements for the use or operation of machines or equipment.
  • Comply with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) requirements.
• Create a positive work environment by demonstrating and sharing functional/technical knowledge.
• Develop and maintain a responsive and cooperative working relationship with internal and external customers.
• Treat everyone with dignity, trust and…