Account Manager – Asia Pacific (Chinese OEMs)

Job title: Account Manager – Asia Pacific (Chinese OEMs)

“This is an exciting, newly created position to lead the commercial activities with Chinese OEMs outside of China primarily, in the Asia Pacific region” Fei, Hiring Manager

Hybrid and flexible working conditions (when possible with the local regulations) to ensure you enjoy a balanced work and home life given some of your time will be spent travelling to customers in Asia Pacific.

Location: Thailand, Malaysia and India

Permanent role – Hybrid (mainly working from home) ideally within reasonable and acceptable commute distance to a GKN Automotive location

Travel: (25%-50% in Asia Pacific)

Closing date: May 9th

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GKN Automotive is a world-leading global automotive technology company at the forefront of innovation. Its origins date back to 1759 and for the last 70 years it has been putting key technologies into series production. It is the trusted partner for most of the world’s automotive companies, specialising in developing, building, and supplying market-leading drive systems and advanced ePowertrain technologies. We are driving change in our sector, using our talents and experience to be a leader in finding new, sustainable solutions for the next phase of the automotive industry. www.gknautomotive.com/en/sustainability

What will you be doing in this role?

Supporting the Account Director, Chinese OEMs, this newly created role for the Asia Pacific region will be critical in the future value creation and customer retention of our largest growing customer base. This means leading business development and key account activities on assigned customer accounts (Chinese OEMs in Asia Pacific) to establish effective strategic customer relationships & meet GKN Automotive Business objectives, ROIC & Margin targets. You will also be working closely with our GKN Automotive’s JV partner in China (SDS) to meet the company’s objectives. There will be additional Account Manager responsibilities to support non-Chinese OEMs within the region.

You’ll have key responsibilities for:

Developing your own objectives with your manager and achieving these through the implementation of strategic relationship management plans. You will manage key customer relationships, often through account teams, focused on resolving any issues to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Specific experience or behaviours that will set you up for success in this role:

• The ability to speak, write and read English and Chinese (Mandarin) is essential
• Experience of championing customer focus internally within an international manufacturing environment
• Experience of clarifying customer needs and requirements
• Exposure to budgets/negotiations at regional level
• Ambition (Quiet or Overt!) as this role will be taking you places in your career
• Self-motivation: this will be a highly autonomous role, working remotely means your independence and proactiveness will keep you energized each day and able to structure your own diary
• Experience of working for/with Chinese OEMs or Tier 1 suppliers is highly advantageous

NOTE: Please submit your resume in English

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