Manufacturing Purchasing Internship (m/f/d) - Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg

Job Description:

What To Expect
Start date: June

Duration: 6 Months

Location: Gigafactory Brandenburg

Time type: Full time

Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. Revolutionary strategies and products were developed within a few years and successfully launched on a large scale. This is only possible through extraordinary speed, innovation and efficiency.

Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg forms the perfect basis for rolling out Tesla's incredible success story in Europe. The most important pillar for this are our employees. Their passion, motivation and engagement ensure that we achieve our goals.

We are looking for you to continue and expand this success story together.

You will get to know the purchasing process of a large Corporation, and you will learn how to navigate working with internal stakeholders to balance the needs of the business while maintaining sound procurement practices. You will get to know supplier negotiation tactics and how to minimize commercial risk to buyers. Therefore, you will directly support a team of 4 Global Supply Managers and will have some independent projects.

What You'll Do

* Support day-to-day manufacturing equipment purchasing needs for Giga Berlin
* Working with Manufacturing Engineers to define equipment specifications
* Sending out RFQ's and coordinating supplier responses
* Analyzing bids, negotiating pricing and payment terms with suppliers
* Ensuring all proper contractual paperwork is in place
* Supplier onboarding, Issuing PO´s and following up on invoice approvals

What You'll Bring

* Preferably studying in the field of supply chain, business, industrial engineering or similar
* Skilled in using standard Microsoft Programs
* First experience in relevant fields is a plus
* Fluent in English and German

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