Commercial sales Review

by Forvia

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Managing accruals, reviewing order forms form customer, quoting, managing company purchase orders, invoicing Tooling POs. Weekly commercial meeting with customer and management. Updating company products piece price. Involved in new company acquisitions.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Improved my excel and other automotive program skills. Communications skills with colleagues globally. Presentation skills. Analysis of big data and creating graphs to read data better.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes, I was given a lot of autonomy and responsibility throughout the 12 months. As I learnt more the more projects given to me to lead. By the end I was leading not only internal meetings and projects but customer meetings and projects on topics that interested. I did not feel like a student, I felt like a valuable employee, I had colleagues globally calling, emailing and messaging me in Teams with questions and for solutions to any problems or any doubt they had.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I received support throughout my placement my questions where answered throughout the 12 months by managers and colleagues.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Kind friendly and welcoming


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Enjoyed it a lot, got the experience and networking I came for.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Forvia
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Forvia to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Forvia
  • Make the most of it as time goes quick and say yes to all opportunities given to you.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Sales

West Midlands

July 2024


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