Sales Profess. E-Mobility JSEAP
Yokohama, JP, 221-0031
Your Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Execute sales activities to achieve commercial objectives for assigned market segments (territory, sector, customers, or product line).
- Contribute to RFQ and budget planning; forecast revenues and customer prospects.
- Understand product strategy (especially E-mobility) and advise internal/external stakeholders on applications and variations.
- Collaborate closely with PMs and KAMs to secure engineering-based sales opportunities.
- Engage deeply in customer projects with PM, track profitability, and implement corrective measures for deviations.
- Analyze market trends; report on technologies, customers, and competitors.
- Develop customer relationships; manage acquisition and negotiations.
- Align with cross-functional teams globally; support all sales-related activities.
- Prepare, conduct, and finalize negotiations on products, quantities, and pricing.
- Monitor and report sales performance metrics for continuous improvement.
Main Tasks
Business Acquisition
- Process customer inquiries and quotations.
- Classify, register, and prepare inquiry documents.
- Create risk level assessments (RLA) with Engineering, Production, and Legal.
- Clarify and track open details with customers/KAM, engineering, plants, purchasing, etc.
- Validate product calculations and pricing.
- Prepare RFQ documents; negotiate and escalate issues promptly.
- Track deadlines and communicate with customers/KAM.
- Participate in internal/external project meetings; support Gateway reviews.
- Monitor project profitability; define corrective measures.
- Set and track customer-specific milestones with engineering and KAM.
Strategic Planning & Sales Strategy
- Gather customer, market, and competitor intelligence.
- Manage customer portfolio (contracts, terms, conditions).
- Conduct won/lost analysis and assess sales strategy impact.
- Plan turnover and sales forecasts; monitor deviations.
- Coordinate activities for projects and serial production.
- Develop strategies for new markets, customers, and products.
Other Tasks
- Maintain customer contact; monitor delivery reliability.
- Handle customer requests via portals.
- Review cost breakdowns and value analysis; present to customers.
- Approve credit/debit notes per guidelines.
- Guide and supervise internal sales staff, field staff, apprentices, and interns.
- Resolve open points with relevant departments.
- Support and coordinate customer complaints and launch control.
- Manage client development plans in alignment with GKAM and BU.
- Support market analysis and product portfolio definition.
- Define and implement product strategies; align BU/UB with client needs.
- Initiate pre-acquisition activities; provide technical leadership for client teams.
Your Qualifications
Soft Skills
・ Goal orientation: Recognizes and respects the targets of his internal and external business partners and is able to defend the Divisional targets in the region.
・ Entrepreneurial thinking: Focus on defined targets and project profitability.
・ Analytical skills: Consolidates market and competitive information, understands relationships and impact on Divisional business.
・ Strong conceptual skills: Recognizes application oriented business opportunities and drives the related projects towards realization.
・ Intercultural skills: works close in cross regional and multi-cultural teams.
Education and Experience
・ University degree, ideally with a technical background (e.g. mechanical/electrical engineering, business administration and engineering), or experience in similar sales / KAM position.
・ Process orientation and adherence.
・ At least 2 years of experience in sales, key account or project management/application engineering, ideally experience in the automotive business.
・ Strong sales and communicative personality ( communication in the matrix, strong network).
・ Strong communication skills incl. Business English skills.
・ Willingness to travel and work in international teams.
Please contact: shiori.tanikawa@vitesco.com for any questions.
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