Sales Account Manager- Automotive/ OEM, Saint Cloud, MN

Job Description

As an Sales Account Manager for Vehicle Motion, you are responsible for a diverse group of customers with a worldwide footprint. The products are chassis components including: braking, steering, airbag, and a portfolio of chassis sensors.  The customers are primarily OEMs, but for certain products also directed Tier 1 opportunities. This position will require approximately 25% of travel both domestically and internationally to meet with customers. 

In this role you are responsible for the entire sales process execution – start to finish. You are the direct leader of a sales  project for OEMs.  This involves meeting with customers virtually and in-person, establishing yourself as the customer’s primary commercial point of contact, receiving RFQs and change requests from the customer, internal stakeholder management (i.e. coordination with project management, engineering, and product management for product selection and scope of work definition), price indications, quotation preparation/delivery, commercial negotiation with the customer, and closing new business awards.