CHINESE OEM Sales: Leading new acquisitions and commercial topics for all customer projects. Driving success with customer account.
Acquisition part: Responsible for / leading acquisitions within the cross functional customer team.
- Define the acquisition strategy for specific OEM sourcing.
- Lead the cross functional acquisition team.
- Lead acquisition specific pre-selling activities aligned with customer team, Global Customer Team Leader /Regional Customer Team Leader and Customer Chief Engineer (Technical Manager) in particular.
- Select, define & apply acquisition tools (battle plan e.g. job stopper, war gaming, specific acquisition man-mapping), aligned with Global Customer Team Leader /Regional Customer Team Leader.
- Identify acquisition specific customer trends and requirements, market activities and competitor information in collaboration with | Executive Sales Original Equipment.
- Initiate Sales Price analysis for respective product/component.
- Lead sales process from initial contact until nomination letter.
- Define, align and implement pricing strategies.
- Check quotation specific terms and conditions (e.g. customizing sales business frames)
- Manage acquisition negotiations and closure within released bottom line (product price, application costs, tooling, logistics, samples etc.)
- Prepare and release customer quotation letter, compliant with Sales Business Frames standards
- Assure involvement and prepare proper project handover with Customer Project Manager and Commercial Manager, incl. necessary documentation.
- Prepare lessons learned after each acquisition, incl. won/lost analysis.
- Enter generic customer requirements into Customer Requirement Specification Tool and ensure completion of requirements evaluation.
- Ensure and provide best practice exchange with other accounts.
Commercial part: Responsible for the commercial aspects of a product/component within the cross functional customer team.
- Define acquisition & pricing strategy for specific.
- Lead the cross functional acquisition team.
- Lead acquisition specific pre-selling activities alight with customer team.
- Check quotation specific term and conditions. (e.g customizing sales business frames).
- Manage acquisition negotiations and closure withing released bottom line (product price, application costs, tooling, logistics, samples etc.)
- Prepare and release customer quotation letter, complaint with Bosch standard.
- Assure involvement and prepare proper project handover with Customer Project Manager and Commercial Manager, incl, documentation.
- Prepare lessons learned after each acquisition, incl. won/lost analysis.
- Identify acquisition specific customer trends and requirement, market activities and competitor information.
- Customer price checking for 4-eye-principle (into Global Price Master: Pricing Workflow): Responsible in ramp-up/series phase
