This internship runs from Late March/Early April 2025 to October 2025
Position overview
Department Overview:
- Parts Business Operations is a core profitability and customer satisfaction driver for Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) and its network of dealers.
- After a Porsche vehicle is sold, we are responsible for keeping the car on the road through the supply of maintenance and repair parts which proactively enables a customer experience befitting the Porsche brand.
- Why: Make the Porsche AfterSales experience as thrilling as the driving experience
- How: Actively drive efficiency, optimization, standardization and automation. Proactively build the future by setting a challenging strategic vision and act daily to bring it to life.
- What: Enable the delivery of modern luxury at scale
- Code number: J000015531
- Entry level: Internship
- Location: Atlanta
- Organization: Porsche Cars North America
Roles & responsibilities
During this internship you are responsible for supporting the implementation of strategic concepts and projects which help the parts business team set and achieve strategic objectives.
- This role will be responsible for collaborating with multiple stakeholders across the organization. This includes collaboration across multiple business units within PCNA business, logistics organization and teams in Germany. Ideation around modernizing systems and or processes, automation and setting foundation for future efficiency and sustainable growth with customer focus.
- Support and execute multiple projects and initiatives.
- Example projects include:
- Local product sourcing
- Parts supply chain continuous improvement and risk reduction
- Active participation in ongoing team project execution priorities
- Example projects include:
- Support process documentation and work instruction culture.
- Continuous improvement mindset, exemplifying the parts business ethos to “leave it better than you found it”
- Support project documentation, including meeting minutes, reports and presentations.
- Identify and report potential risks or issues in project execution.
- Assist in planning and scheduling project timelines, tasks, and milestones.
- Assist Parts Planning Manager to ensure day-to-day tactical work aligns with overall strategic vision of department
- Assist team business owners in alignment with Parts Planning Manager process to ensure project structure and accountability.
- Lead in organizing meetings, preparing agendas and following up on action items.
- Objective setting optimization and automation (Internal and dealer)
Qualifications
Required qualifications include:
Education:
- Minimum Senior in undergraduate studies.
Preferred qualifications include:
- Post graduate preferred
- Undergraduate degree in Business, Management, Supply Chain, and or Data Analytics preferred
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Strategic and Continuous improvement mindset.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and project management tools (Project for the Web preferred) Must be organized, positive, proactive, results-oriented, with excellent oral and written communication, presentation, and problem-solving skills.
- Understands and incorporates project methodology.
- Experience working with large scale data to build the reporting solutions.
- Assist in the demonstration through proof of concepts and present them to stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate with multiple groups on multiple levels.
- Work with internal teams to understand the business requirements, translate them to technical design and requirements and build scalable and sustainable reporting solutions, with transition to automation in mind.
Percentage of required travel:
- No travel required.
Schedule/Shift:
- Must be able to commute to One Porsche Drive on weekdays for committed work schedule.
Physical requirements
- Must be able to lift 25 pounds at times.
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
Porsche is an equal opportunity employer and we take pride in our diversity. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Porsche will be based on merit, qualifications and abilities. Porsche does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, status as a parent, national origin, age, disability, family medical history, ancestry, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, familial status, registered domestic partner status, family and medical leave status, military status, criminal conviction history, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
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