Now Hiring - MAHLE International - Sales & Application Engineer in Farmington Hills, MI
Sales & Application Engineer in Farmington Hills, MI
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Farmington Hills, MIFull description of the position
In 2022, the technology group with its more than 72,000 employees, generated sales of around EUR 12 billion and with its 152 locations, including 12 major research and development centers, is represented in more than 30 countries. Come join our team at MAHLE! #StrongerTogether
- Responsible managing the overall relationship between MAHLE North America and customers by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders across a variety of sales and application engineering functions to assure complete and successful account management.
- Responsible for negotiating long term contracts, new production pricing, warranty terms and conditions, prototype prices and successfully win new business.
- Attend regular site visits to customers along with other applicable engineering assigned tasks / subjects as needed in order to support the customer.
- Responsible for new projects quotation and negotiation to include price proposals, timeline negotiations between MAHLE Engineering Teams, R&D Groups and Production operations in the USA and Mexico.
- Exercise leadership in the execution of the business sales strategy and act as focal point for all commercial discussions/negotiations.
- Follow market trends and keep management informed on all important issues concerning their assigned accounts.
- Lead the sales effort to achieve internal acceptance of the customer strategy from other functional areas before implementation.
- Manage, organize and prepare technical presentations for our customers.
- Communicate/clarify issues related to prototype orders with the customer.
- Responsible for providing input as necessary to the Automotive Forecast Preparation
- Understand macro automotive industry trends, how they affect our customers, how the customers’ reaction affects our company, and recommend course of action for our company to best leverage said changes/trends to our company’s benefit.
- Establish matrix identifying key customer individual and who at our company should interact with them, and the frequency.
- Determine which customer individuals are pro, con or neutral toward our company and develop plan to maximize the number.
- Manage timely quotation of new business by internally driving the quote process, including PAC reviews and initiation of SOF and subsequent updates to information.
- Manage and prepare pricing proposals, review them with customers and address any concerns.
- Provide input to the preparation of obsolescence claims and negotiate the claims with the customer.
- Coordinate with the Program Manager, determine what, when and how to notify customer in the event of a milestone that is going to be missed, or a test failure occurred, etc. and then be part of the communication loop.
- Provide customer market intelligence to MAHLE and act as focal point to determine how best to respond to the information
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or equivalent degree from a four-year college or university is required
- Minimum 3 years of relevant Account Management experience in a technical capacity within the automotive industry is required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation delivery, with demonstrated experience with account/customer relationships, in-depth knowledge of contract negotiations and product development
- Good general base automotive technical knowledge, including powertrains, vehicle testing, and MAHLE’s product suite
- Familiarity with OEM product development systems and processes required
- Strong time and project management, problem solving and continuous improvement skills
- Up to 25% International and domestic travel by plane and car required
- Software skills: strong competency in Microsoft Office skills (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word) required; prior experience in SAP preferred
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Your future at MAHLE
As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.
Shape the future with us.
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Nearest Major Market: Detroit
MAHLE International
10000+ Employees
1920
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
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https://www.jobs.mahle.com
$5 to $10 billion (USD)
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