Head of Sales, Nagoya
At a glance
Director-level Sales Leadership role at MAHLE. Tokyo.
Pay not stated
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What you'll do
- Set account sales plans, connect worldwide sales work to targets, and manage budgets and results
- Win new business while directing major projects, pricing decisions, product strategy, and commercial terms
- Lead negotiations and senior customer conversations, while building durable relationships across account organizations
- Coordinate Business Units, monitor customers and competitors, and turn market findings into business input
- Manage the sales team, handle satisfaction and complaints, and push ongoing improvements
What you bring
- A university bachelor's degree or higher is required
- You have managed sales teams or sales operations before
- You have sold to Japanese automakers and can work at mother-tongue Japanese and business English levels
Who this fits
This role suits a sales leader who has experience with Japanese car makers and can operate in both Japanese and English. You'll lead and develop the sales team while handling strategy, accounts, negotiations, and customer issues. The role is based in Tokyo, Japan.
From the employer
Your Contribution
- Define and execute sales strategy for key accounts to drive growth
- Align global sales activities with business targets
- Lead budgeting, track performance, and take corrective actions
- Drive new business acquisition and oversee key projects
- Define pricing, product strategy, and commercial approach
- Lead contract negotiations and key customer discussions
- Align teams and ensure strong cooperation with Business Units
- Monitor market trends, demand, and competitors
- Share insights to support business decisions
- Build strong, long-term customer relationships
- Expand network across customer organizations
- Oversee customer satisfaction and complaint handling
- Drive continuous improvement
- Lead, develop, and motivate the sales team
Your Experience & Qualifications
- University Bachelor Degree or above
- Experience in sales management
- Experience as sales to Japanese car makers
- Mother tongue level Japanese and business English language skills
Our offering;
We will provide a collaborative environment working on exciting assignments, along with personal & career development opportunities.We encourage you to apply if it feels like a good fit for you or to review our other openings. You may just be the right candidate for this or other role.After inviting you to the recruitment process, the next step will typically be a screening call followed by video or personal interview(s).For more information about MAHLE and what a career with us looks like for you,click hereand to learn more about our foundation owned technology groupclick here.#TeamMAHLE is diverse–and we see that as a great advantage! We welcome applications with diverse experiences, backgrounds, and identities.
Do you have any questions?
EMI.YASUDA@MAHLE.COM
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