Sales Manager

Position Overview

The Sales Manager II is responsible for supporting corporate sales goals, promoting growth in designated product areas, and negotiating commercial sales items.

What You’ll Do

• Support corporate sales goals and promote growth in designated product areas.
• Create and contribute to global sales strategies.
• Negotiate commercial sales items in an effective manner that supports global sales strategy.
• Develop understanding of customers’ organizational structure.
• Meet with customer teams on a regular basis to gather information and promote Gentex and its products.
• Represent the “voice of the customer” to internal teams.
• Process customer Requests for Quotation, with internal teams.
• Prepare Customer Quotations.
• Cook up and coordinate closely with all internal stakeholders.
• Form effective and lasting global relationships both internally and externally.
• Effectively manage customer relationships to balance requests and expectations with Gentex capabilities and corporate goals.
• Prepare sales presentations for global internal and external audiences.
• Support the product development process and project realization process.
• Prepare expense reports.
• Support customer-led events and attend industry trade shows.
• Entertain customers when appropriate.
• Process necessary documents with Gentex Legal Team.
• Other duties as assigned.

How You’ll Do It

• Building collaborative relationships - developing, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with others inside or outside the organization.
• Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Individual efficiency - Effectively managing time and resources so that individual work is completed efficiently.
• Interpersonal savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Building and maintaining solid working relationship with others.
• Maintaining high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
• Communicating effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding, taking into account the unique needs of different audiences.
• Maintaining high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
• Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.

What To Bring

• 2-year degree in related field, 4-year degree preferred.
• Experience in the Automotive industry in a related job function.
• Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally, as necessary.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products.

What Will Help

• Tenacious, positive attitude with a strong desire to win.

Gentex is an equal opportunity employer

Assistance

• Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities.
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