Your Job
Molex is seeking a dynamic and proactive Account Manager that will be responsible to development and implementation of sales strategies for the automotive customers, plans to maintain existing business and identify new opportunities for growth to exceed annual sales goals. The Account Manager role, within Sales Development Group, is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships at assigned accounts and ensuring a high level of customer service and satisfaction, also providing leadership and management in working with assigned accounts and cross-functional teams
Our Team
Established in 1938, Molex delivers complete electronic solutions for several markets including: data communications, telecommunications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace, and defense, medical, and lighting.Molex is a global company with a presence in more than 40 countries. With over 40,000 employees and over 100,000 products, Molex is an integral part of Koch Industries, the second largest privately-owned company in the United States.
What You Will Do
- Responsible for profitable growth within a defined set of automotive accounts and tiers.
- Establishes strong relationships at all organizational levels within the customer base and understands customers' processes, business drivers and organizational models.
- Responsible for managing and maintaining individual pipeline.
- Responsible for complex RFQs and pricing negotiations
- Resolve conflicts and provide solutions to customers in a timely manner.
- Develop new and innovative ideas that enhance the customer's experience.
- Captures both technical and commercial customer requirements in collaboration with Business Development Managers and multiple Business Units.
- Work with lead generation and marketing teams to understand and nurture leads through multiple digital and social media channels.
- Continuous learning of product's functions and purpose to confidently support customer needs.
- Sets and helps manage internal/external partner expectations.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree
- 2+ years of successful and relevant sales/account management experience within automotive industry.
- Experience in customer service and/or technical support
- Previous experience with quotation processes and understanding of the pace of the market.
- Prior experience with Automotive Tiers.
- Excellent selling, communication, and negotiation skills
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience using SAP and Salesforce
- Strong commercial business understanding and entrepreneurship skills.
- Engineering background and/or sales experience
- Project management skills that demonstrate the ability to set goals and priorities to complete projects in a systematic and timely manner.
- Ability to prioritize and operate independently and effectively.
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to -data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
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