Electric Vehicle Ev Sales Engineer - Account Manager H/F MERSEN

The Saint Bonnet de Mure (69) site is hosting the electric vehicle activity, offering a wide range of products and solutions covering all aspects of power management and on-board safety for electric vehicles.

Mersen is pushing its know-how in the Electric Vehicle industry. Full of success and with a lot of potential, we are seeking our future Account Manager / Sales Engineer with proven skills in managing strategic customers, developing long term relationships within the organizations of key accounts; with minimum 5 years of relevant sales experience working with the automotive and or heavy transportation. Targeted customers include OEM's and Tier 1 accounts from Electric Vehicle industry.

Description:
Manage existing key accounts, identify opportunities and acquire new development programs with targeted leaders among the EV market.

Position responsibilities:

- Manage growth and profitability of the assigned current businesses by building long-term relationships
- Develop and implement a strategy per customer, aligning with company objectives, products and resources
- Identify new prospects
- Interact with multiple levels within Engineering, Purchasing, and Quality professionals, defining the key decision makers, champions, influences and gatekeepers.
- Visit regularly customers
- Internally, you will consolidate customer needs and liaise with the cross functional and multicultural team to ensure that customers' specifications and expectations are shared, understood, and fulfilled.
- Arrange and host meetings with team members and customers, follow-up on actions, report progress.
- Participate in relevant trade shows to increase Company visibility and position for future new business growth.
- Use and service report systems

Qualifications:

- Deep understanding of automotive industry, Electric Vehicle expertise a plus
- Experience selling customized-product-into-OEM applications in the automotive or heavy transportation markets.
- Presence and familiarity with the European automotive environment.
- Strong understanding of customer advanced development activities and approval milestones in order to progress initial concepts to working prototypes and ultimately production implementation.
- Proven success working with global organizations, assuring our activities are in step with account's sourcing process.
- Exceptional relationship and communication skills, presence consistent with this important customer facing role.
- Technical aptitude and knowledge base.

Profile:

- Master's degree in engineering preferred.
- Experience min 5 years in Automotive industry
- Fluent in English & French (German would be a plus)

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