Sales Account Manager - Automotive

Sales Account Manager Automotive (Hunter) Michigan home-office based

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A privately held family-owned high-tech manufacturer is building out its North American team. They have 1500 people across Germany China and the US they are a specified strategic supplier to automotive OEMs and Tier 1s and they are investing heavily here including a brand-new US production and training facility opening within the next two years. They need a hunter in Michigan to grow the Great Lakes and Mexico territory.

What youll do

• Spend up to 70% of your time on new business: finding opening and closing new accounts across automotive Tier 1s OEMs and general industry
• Manage and grow existing accounts across the Great Lakes region and Mexico
• Work with customer engineering and purchasing teams to develop product solutions
• Negotiate contracts build the annual budget and own your forecast
• Coordinate with internal sales product development and colleagues in Europe and Asia
• Report to the Director of Sales

What you need

• 3 to 5 years of outside sales selling into automotive Tier 1 suppliers or OEMs
• A real track record of winning new customers and negotiating new contracts
• Based in Michigan
• Happy with 40% travel: mostly regional plus Mexico and occasional trips to Germany
• Degree in Engineering Manufacturing Business or similar
• CRM experience
• Spanish is a real plus not essential

Whats on offer

• $85000 to $120000 base plus bonus
• Car allowance of around $830 a month
• Home-office based with a stable growing family-owned company behind you

Be honest with yourself on this one: this is a hunting role. If you prefer farming an established book it wont suit you. If you enjoy building a territory from the ground up it will.

Apply here or message Daren Thornley at Thornley Corporate Solutions for a confidential conversation.