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Sales Professional D-A-CH OEM (d / f / m)

Schaeffler schaeffler.com Open · verified Sep 25, 2026
Schweinfurt Mid-level Account Executive

At a glance

Mid-level Account Executive role at Schaeffler. Schweinfurt.

Pay not stated

RoleAccount Executive
SeniorityMid-level
LocationSchweinfurt
Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

  • Own sales execution for an assigned D-A-CH OEM portfolio and pursue both current and potential customers
  • Deliver revenue and profit goals while building tailored solutions that strengthen customer relationships
  • Advise customers on technical issues, then lead pricing and contract discussions independently
  • Build rolling forecasts, support budgeting, and record opportunities and interactions in Salesforce
  • Help launch market-share campaigns and improve sales processes over time

What you bring

  • A completed engineering, industrial engineering, or business degree, or comparable technical experience
  • Relevant work in an industrial setting, with strong Salesforce and Microsoft Office capability
  • Proven consulting, relationship management, communication, negotiation, and pricing skills
  • Very strong German plus desirable English, along with willingness to travel across the assigned territory

Who this fits

You’ll suit a mid-level OEM sales role combining account ownership, technical consulting, forecasting, and commercial negotiation. It calls for an initiative-driven, goal-focused approach with structured project and process habits. The role is based in Schweinfurt, Germany and includes travel within the assigned sales territory.

From the employer

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.

Your Key Responsibilities

  • Manage and execute all sales activities as the account owner for an assigned OEM customer portfolio within a specific market segment
  • Engage proactively with existing and prospective customers in a dynamic and agile sales environment
  • Achieve defined business targets, including revenue and profitability, for the assigned customer portfolio
  • Continuously develop customer relationships and ensure customer satisfaction through tailored, customer-oriented solutions and services
  • Provide consulting support for resolving customers’ technical challenges
  • Prepare and independently conduct price and contract negotiations
  • Develop rolling sales forecasts and contribute to the budgeting process
  • Document market potential, opportunities, contacts, and customer interactions in Salesforce
  • Support the development and implementation of campaigns and initiatives to increase market share
  • Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of sales processes

Your Qualifications

  • Successfully completed degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business Administration, or a comparable qualification, alternatively relevant professional experience with a technical component
  • Relevant professional experience in an industrial environment
  • Good IT/system skills, especially in Salesforce and Microsoft Office
  • Strong consulting skills and excellent relationship management abilities
  • Outstanding communication skills
  • Willingness to travel within the assigned sales territory
  • Strong negotiation skills and pricing know-how
  • Very good written and spoken German skills; good English skills are desirable
  • High level of initiative, goal-oriented working style, and a process- and project-oriented mindset

Our Offering

  • Flexible Arbeitszeitmodelle sowie eine attraktive Vergütung
  • Vielfältiges Weiterentwicklungsangebot über die Schaeffler Academy
  • Honorierung Ihres Ideenreichtums, z.B. im Rahmen der Schaeffler Awards und des Ideenmanagements
  • Gesundheits- und Sportangebote, z.B. durch die Schaeffler Health Coach App
  • Aufbau einer zusätzlichen Altersrente im Rahmen der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge
  • Viele weitere Mitarbeitenden-Vorteile, u.a. im Rahmen von Corporate Benefits

As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.

Exciting assignments and outstanding development opportunities await you because we impact the future with innovation. We look forward to your application.

www.schaeffler.com/careers

Your contact

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG

Vanessa Sprenz

+499132825788

Keywords: Experienced; Engineer; Full-Time; Unlimited; Sales Management;

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