JOB ID 27687

Key Account Manager (Lighting)

  • Manufacturer, Electrical & Electronic
  • Sales, Account Manager (B2B)
  • Aichi
  • ¥6,000,000~¥7,500,000

This company is a global automotive technology supplier specializing in advanced sensing systems, electrification, and intelligent mobility solutions.
The company operates internationally with strong R&D capabilities and collaborates with major OEMs to develop next-generation safety and in-cabin technologies.

While building long-term relationships with the finished vehicle manufacturers you are responsible for, you will be responsible for acquiring new projects, price negotiations, sales management, and sales strategy planning. This role involves collaborating with the in-house development, quality, project, and overseas sales teams to propose optimal solutions that consider quality, cost, and delivery time.

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Job Description

  • Responsibilities
    ■ Customer sales, proposal activities
    , building and maintaining
    relationships with responsible finished vehicle manufacturers, analyzing customer needs, market trends, and competitive information to formulate
    sales strategies, proposing
    new products, technologies, and solutions, coordinating with internal departments, and deploying customer requirements internally

    ■ Business negotiations, contract negotiations
    , contract negotiations aimed
    at acquiring new projects, planning and promoting
    pricing strategies, collaboration
    with product departments and overseas sales, and coordination of contract and pricing conditions

    ■ Managing
    sales and budgets, managing sales, orders, and sales price targets
    , creating budgets, forecasting sales, managing progress
    , negotiating
    price revisions based on raw material prices and market conditions, and promoting cost reduction activities

    ■ Sales
    operations and sales management department: managing price information
    , quality, logistics, customer response
    in case of delivery issues, accounts receivable management, collection follow-up
    , complaint response, and improvement activities
  • Requirements
    ・Required
    ・Ordinary driver's
    license ・Corporate sales experience for JOEM (industry not required)
    ・Japanese: Native level
    ・English: Daily conversation level
  • Preferred
    ・Corporate sales experience
    in the automotive industry ・Sales experience with Tier 1 manufacturers or automobile manufacturers
  • Location
    Aichi
  • Work Style
    Flex working possible
  • Salary
    ¥6,000,000~¥7,500,000
  • Attractive
    Points
    Overseas business trip, Foreign capital company, Weekends and holidays off

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