Purchasing Intern – Profit Management & Sustainability

Toyota Motor Europe • Internship • Brussels • 24m ago

In a nutshell

Support purchasing new projects by driving data-driven profit management, sustainable sourcing, and digital dashboards, while gaining hands-on experience with Power BI, HRDD, and strategic sourcing decisions.

Your team and your responsibilities

Team/division description

Purchasing Profit Management New Projects members act as profit leaders for new TME projects, steering end‑to‑end sourcing to secure competitive economics and robust governance. Our scope includes: increasing the overall benefit by confirming shared designs early and making bundle sourcing easier across different regions; identifying and carrying out localization opportunities for important CKD parts when there is a clear advantage; and managing sourcing activities in line with project timelines, meeting Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) requirements, and adjusting to cost‑planning targets as they are finalized. Profit leaders track performance via dashboards and structured management reporting, ensuring timely corrective follow‑up with all stakeholders. Finally, the team reviews the project and sourcing approaches strategically, yokoten the lessons learned, and develops best practices for future projects.

Your project

Your role will be to support profit leaders in the following areas within New Projects team.

Business automation (Power BI)
1. Support profit leaders to manage KPIs.
2. Identify potential process automation and digitalisation improvement opportunities.

Sourcing execution compliance & HRDD
1. Help profit leaders visualize and follow up HRDD/SAQ status.

Performance dashboard & reporting
1. Prepare a Purchasing performance dashboard covering sourcing status, HRDD compliance posture, and cost‑planning alignment versus baseline targets (where available).

CKD Localization
1. Create a localization opportunity tracker for CKD priority parts (business case template, merit logic, status, risks) and bring top 3 candidates to decision with clear go/no‑go criteria.

Bundle Sourcing support
1. Build and maintain a design commonality & bundle merit workbook and visualize bundle candidates, using the latest commonality scenarios as reference.
2. Prepare 1–2 commodity mini‑cases showing expected volume merit and supplier alignment.

During your internship you will learn about the purchasing processes.

Your Profile

You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
a university degree or equivalent higher education in business, purchasing, supply chain management, automotive engineering, or IT related fields
analytical skills, accuracy, and reliability
creative thinking
willingness to learn (self-motivation to learn new software and programmes)
to be result driven and able to break down complex issues into manageable portions
good communication and presentation skills
an ability to work independently
to be computer literate (MS Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Power BI, SharePoint, PowerAutomate)
to be fluent in English. Any other European language is an asset.

Duration

6 months

Confidentiality

Due to business requirement, not all performed projects can be reflected in the internship report. This issue needs to be discussed with candidate/school in advance.

It is mandatory that applicants are students for the entire period of the internship.

We can only accept students with an EEA or Swiss citizenship (not requiring a work permit or visa to be eligible to perform an internship in Belgium)

We offer

We offer a dynamic multicultural work environment with broad opportunities to learn every day and exciting career pathways that help you explore different disciplines or areas of expertise.

Your benefits

Flexible working hours and hybrid working (homeworking, 10 days from abroad);
Company restaurant – Warm dishes, salads and desserts daily, including Japanese and traditional Belgian specialties, as well as a vegan/vegetarian option;
Sport facilities – Tennis, squash, volleyball, football and softball pitches are available at various Toyota sites;
Team building activities and other personnel related events;
Programs to support your physical and social well-being.

A truly diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace

At Toyota Motor Europe, we are committed to providing equal employment opportunity to all. All our recruitment decisions are based on the individual and their qualifications along with the job requirements. The selection process is without regard to nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, ethnicity, disability or other personal characteristics. We do not tolerate harassment or discrimination as our individual experiences and overall diversity is our key strength. Together we have the power to make a positive change and go beyond the ordinary.

If you need any specific consideration for the interview process due to disability or any other reason, please let the recruiter know.