Key Account Manager Aftermarket

About the position

Mobility connects people. People shape mobility. Do you have a strategic, analytical thinking and want to design the development of a global acting automotive company? Making decisions and taking responsibility? Step out of your comfort zone, excel and redefine the limits of what is possible. After all, behind every successful company are many great fascinating people. If you like working in a fast-paced surrounding, if you are looking to actively shape the direction of our portfolio, if you dare to try out new things, if you are curious and eager to learn, and if you value a positive and solution orientated working mode – Kongsberg Automotive (KA) is the right place for you. Then you will find the KA Group as an attractive employer. When you work for us, you have more than a job. With your skills and ideas, you can make an impact. 

Join us as Key Account Manager Aftermarket!

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial items for Aftermarket Sales in North America, in both channels IAM & OES
• Evaluate and develop relationships with new or assigned IAM distributors, provide trainings and product materials
• Identify IAM product trends, needs and opportunities, as well as analyze marketplace for areas to grow KA market share
• Understand competitor positions, product offerings and price levels
• Lead the development and execution of marketing initiatives to promote IAM sales, as well as attend/participate in Automotive AM trade shows as required
• Prepare professional action plans, performance and sales reports, and business plans to communicate AM business endeavors to department and company leadership as necessary
• Manage OES sales with responsibility of improving profit margins, setting Last time buys and Minimum order quantities with OEM customers after EOP (serial production) during Lifetime
• Coordinate with Purchasing, Engineering, Operations, and other support functions to ensure accuracy and efficiency in product cost, design, quality, and delivery and ensure superior service to our customers
• Support service level towards customer in proportion to internal stock level, batch sizes, tooling, etc. bearing KA’s superior targets in mind
• Support the optimize of AM production at the factories and common global work methods
• Set future demand forecasts for KA plants, including collecting/analyzing inputs from customers (S&OP planning)

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Engineering
• BSc or BA degree with relevant (minimum 2 years) experience in Sales in the Automotive Aftermarket
• Strong negotiation skills and experience in closing deals (B2B)
• Self-motivated and driven with sense of urgency
• Strong organization and time management skills
• Adaptable to change with good analytical and problem-solving skills
• High IT Literacy - MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Willing to travel to visit customers, participate in tradeshows, conduct trainings.
• Ability to produce good quality written reports, data and relevant presentations
• Driving license
• Fluent English (oral/written)

What we offer

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Application / Contact

If this sounds interesting and likely the right challenge for you, we look forward to receiving your application!

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The applications will be handled on an ongoing basis and the position may be filled before the application deadline date.