Role: Key Account Manager

Location: Home based / Remote role with travel to clients sites (mainly Midlands)

Sector: Automotive

Salary Guide: circa.£55-60k + £6.5k car allowance + benefits + bonus

Are you a talented Key Account Manager, or are you aiming to be one?

Can you demonstrate that you have experience of working with OEM automotive clients?

If so then you could be perfect for my client.

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The Role:

In the Key Account Manager role you'll report to the European Sales Director and will be primarily responsible for driving and overseeing preexisting EV application development with key OEM clients, supporting them in their ongoing move to high-performance electrified vehicles. An area that is showing and will continue to show continued huge growth.

Specific tasks include:

• Preparing formal quotations/offers to be submitted to customers
• Overseeing activity and coordination between the business and the customer from first contact until contract agreement
• Monitoring sales targets achievement, proposing the necessary corrective actions in case of deviations

This is a field-based role covering OEMs in the Midlands & South East region, so if field-based work doesn't suit you please do not apply.

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The Candidate:

To be the right person for Key Account Manager role you will need direct experience of working with OEM automotive clients.

We also need you to have prior experience of:

• Monitoring customer satisfaction to collect relevant information that allows the implementation of a long-term commercial relationship strategy and promptly acts corrective actions when required
• Identifying and developing business with existing and new customers
• Managing contracts with the customer, take care of sharing with the relevant functions and getting the internal approval for changes where appropriate
• Managing commercial issues during product development up to product start of production, with the support of program management and sales management

It's important that you also have the following:

• Previous experience working with automotive OEM clients
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong business acumen with a strategic orientation
• Strong problem solving skills, able to deal with problems by providing creative and practical solutions

We need you to be located in the Midlands or south east to be able to travel to your key clients in the two regions.

Is that you? If so, send us your CV.

Finally, you'll need a full driving licence for this position, so please do not apply if you do not have one.

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The Package:

The basic salary for the Key Account Manager role is between £55 -60k + bonus. You'll also receive other benefits with the role which include £6,500 car allowance and full corporate benefits package.

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The Company:

The business you'll be working for is a large automotive engineering group with business assets across the Europe, the US and Asia.

They're a company that people really enjoy working for. People join them for many reasons, such as they:

• Have a clearly supportive and high performance culture
• Are know from developing future leaders from within the business and offer unrivalled professional development opportunities
• Empower their employees, allow the guys on the ground to make decisions on projects that will aid in their delivery and customer satisfaction
• Have strong employee loyalty, leading to low staff turnover

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Think that this Key Account Manager role is right for you? Then we'd love to hear from you.

Click the 'Apply Now' button, send us your CV and we'll get in touch around next steps.

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You could be right for this Key Account Manager position if you've previously worked as any of the following: Account Manager, Account Executive or as a Customer Success Manager or similar.