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Key Account Manager - Automotive - French market

Negotiable
Location Paris or Chatellerault - travel included
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This is a {Advertised Permanent / Temporary}, {Advertised Full Time / Part Time} vacancy that's closing in 14 days.

Summary

Due to the development of a new strategic plan, Alvance downstream is looking to reinforce it's sales team. Primary purpose of the job is to manage the current French business and help the plants to get new Request For Quotations (RFQs). The new incumbent will collaborate with the engineering department to represent the plants in front of the customer.

 

Key Responsibilities:

Develop Account Strategy:

  • Identify customer strategy, needs and key buying factors beyond purchasing
  • Assess 100% (needs, supplier shares), account trends and define aspirations
  • Identify key decision makers and influencers beyond purchasing and craft relationship plan
  • Complete, update & execute key account plan
  • Develop and update sales forecast for customer

Identify and drive actions to improve bottom line​:

  • Assess account economics and set profitability and growth target
  • Develop and maintain action plan for how targets will be met
  • Identify and drive execution of actions to improve profitability
  • Develop joint business plan
  • Identify gap with competitors to improve internal costs

Prepare and execute negotiations:

  • Develop value selling arguments for account
  • Develop negotiation strategy
  • Create and defend mandate
  • Execute negotiation

Lead cross-functional team:

  • Coordinate information flow and action planning with relevant functions
  • Create collaborative customer / Alvance teams
  • Identify and align resources
  • Conduct semi-annual internal account reviews with cross functional teams

Build long term customer relationship:

  • Build strong relationships with senior leaders at customer beyond purchasing
  • Build partnerships across customer organization to create value for both parties
  • Conduct systematic performance reviews with customers

Play active role in Alvance commercial organization:

  • Actively participate in sales meetings, weekly highlights and sales updates
  • Actively participate in the BD strategic planning
  • Participate in relevant trade shows, conference, professional bodies

 

Qualifications and Experience requirements:

  • Extensive sales experience or Engineering education and sales experience
  • Strong Automotive background
  • Knowledge of French and wider European OEMs, with relevant sales network
  • English & French language skills
  • Knowledge in aluminium casting

 

GFG Alliance values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for our GFG Family. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, gender, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

ALVANCE Aluminium Group, is part of the GFG Alliance and a leading GREENALUMINIUM producer, is a global integrated aluminium business bringing together assets across the aluminium supply chain from raw materials to finished components. With current primary aluminium production capacity of 332,000 tonnes per annum, ALVANCE Aluminium delivers low carbon products in consumer goods and industries such as automotive, food and drink, medical supplies and printing. ALVANCE Aluminium owns and operates the only smelter in the United Kingdom, powered entirely by hydro energy as well as Europe’s largest aluminium smelter in Dunkerque, France which is Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) certified for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. ALVANCE Aluminium aims to champion sustainable industry with a mission to become Carbon Neutral by 2030 (CN30).

GREENALUMINIUM
GFG Alliance’s GREENALUMINIUM strategy seeks to transform aluminium manufacturing by applying low carbon and renewable energy sources to power industrial processes. Aluminium is lightweight, strong, noncorroding and easily formable into a wide range of products, requiring just 5% of the original energy needed to smelt it from its ore to recycle it into second, third and many subsequent life products.
 

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Our STRATEGY is to create an economically viable business model for our industries which is profitable for the long term, allows for socially sustainable development in our local communities and is carbon neutral.

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Published

2 hours ago

Closing

14 Days