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As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.
Job Responsibility:
Account manager for automotive seating structures
Actively manages with the project team the acquisition phase including kick-off of cross-functional team discussions to gain the necessary inputs for on time quotations while managing import KPI’s
Achieve defined project goals including capacity, timing, costs and profitability
Safeguarding and improvement of the profit situation for current production and service parts
Establish positive relationship with internal and external stakeholders
Compiles lists of prospective customers for use as sales leads, based on information from ad inquiries, trade shows, direct mail responses, business directories, Internet Web sites, business contacts, and other sources
Provide solutions to the customer in order to acquire sales of services or products
This may include cross-divisional bundling of programs / products and negotiation on a customer supervisory level
Support technical and business objectives of prospective customers (ie. Non-Disclosure Agreements, new customer terms and condition negotiations)
Defines the escalation process at a customer for any subject and coordinates appropriate match pair discussions
Is acutely aware of competitor products and the competitive landscape
Develops a method to market the product to a customer with the ability to influence the customer specification
Track and monitor change management process and assess impact for customer
Provides input into future sales strategies and assists in develop business unit sales goals
Conducts updates within the sales planning tools for respective customers or product segment
Creates quotation and manages profitability according to required KPI's
Identify opportunities in advance of RFQ, to provide competitive advantage (involved in customer product planning)
Willingness to engage face-to-face with customers and participates in in-person meetings
Requirements:
Bachelor of Business Administration and/or Engineering Degree from four-year college or university
Three to five years of technical sales experience within the US automotive industry preference
Experience with market analysis and marketing
Three to five years experience with customer interface