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New Job - Sales Manager - Automotive

  • up to £85K per annum
  • Permanent
  • Rest of the UK
  • Ref: 22465

Your New Job Title: Sales Manager - Automotive

Your New Daily rate: up to £85K per annum

Job status: Permanent  hybrid: 4 days a week in office

Location: Coventry

Start date: ASAP

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week  

Sales Manager - Automotive - Who you'll be working for:

Innovation Partner for Vehicle component Solutions (VS) Company focuses on commercializing and environmentally responsible automotive components and core solutions based on company’s proprietary technologies. A leading provider of core technologies for global car makers, VS Company is supporting the emerging mega trend of the whole vehicle industry. The company's VS is a leading system supplier in the fields of in-vehicle infotainment, telematics and electrification.

Sales Manager - Automotive - What you’ll be doing each day:

  • Creating and maintaining a trustful customer relationship
  • Preparing and managing customer quotations for new business
  • Coordinating of all change requests
  • Conducting trouble shootings initiatives with pre-series deliveries with customer senior manager level
  • Monitoring customer satisfaction and related KPI´s
  • Liaison with different stakeholder (internal) to solve customer requests
  • Promoting our technologies and product for new business opportunities
  • Participating and supporting strategic sales objective setting process
  • Managing and negotiating customer claims and company's requests towards the customer
  • Overseeing overall project status for the customer to identify risk for nominations
  • Ensuring legal framework for projects are set
  • Monitoring of sales performance / forecast / moving plan

Sales Manager - Automotive - The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

  • Degree level in Engineering, or equivalent combination of experience and education
  • Several years of professional experience in a comparable position with an internationally active supplier or similar.
  • Experience in automotive infotainment, cockpit electronics, connectivity, vision systems etc. and related products- essential
  • Excellent Customer Service
  • Technical understanding, especially automotive electronics and software
  • Experience in preparing and managing customer quotations for new business
  • Proficient English written and spoken - essential
  • Strong negotiating skills

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