Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:- Serve as the primary commercial lead for assigned OEM accounts, managing all aspects of the customer relationship and acting as the voice of the customer within the organization.
- Develop and execute account growth strategies that increase revenue, expand market share, and strengthen long-term customer partnerships.
- Lead pricing negotiations, commercial discussions, RFQs, and contract-related activities to maximize profitability while delivering customer value.
- Build strong relationships with purchasing, engineering, program management, quality, and operations teams at customer organizations and within Freudenberg-NOK.
- Manage complex customer systems, portals, reporting requirements, and business processes to ensure responsiveness and operational excellence.
- Drive issue resolution by partnering with cross-functional teams to address commercial, quality, supply chain, and service-related challenges.
- Create and maintain strategic multi-year account plans that identify growth opportunities, business risks, competitive threats, and actionable plans for success.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related field.
- 5+ years of Account Management, Business Development, Sales, or Commercial experience supporting OEM automotive customers.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex customer accounts, programs, pricing activities, and commercial negotiations with minimal supervision.
- Strong understanding of OEM customer systems, portals, processes, and the demands of serving large automotive organizations.
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence with customers, executives, engineers, and cross-functional business partners.
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and relationship-management skills with a customer-first mindset.
- Automotive sealing, polymer, manufacturing, supplier, Tier 1, or electric vehicle industry experience is strongly preferred.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Freudenberg-NOK General PartnershipSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or related field
- 5+ years of Account Management, Business Development, Sales, or commercial experience supporting OEM automotive customers
- Experience managing complex customer accounts, programs, pricing activities, and commercial negotiations with minimal supervision
- Strong understanding of OEM customer systems, portals, processes, and the demands of serving large automotive organizations
- Proven ability to build credibility and influence with customers, executives, engineers, and cross-functional business partners
- Exceptional communication, negotiation, conflict resolution, and relationship-management skills
- Automotive sealing, polymer, manufacturing, supplier, Tier 1, or electric vehicle industry experience
Freudenberg Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Freudenberg Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Freudenberg Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered strong at many U.S. sites, with low‑cost options, HSA contributions, and on‑site clinics in some locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is standard across U.S. entities, though exact match mechanics differ by business group and year.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often described as good, with some locations offering generous holiday schedules.
Freudenberg Group Insights
What We Do
Freudenberg is a global technology group that strengthens its customers and society long-term through forward-looking innovations. Together with its partners, customers and research institutions, the Freudenberg Group develops leading-edge technologies and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, technical textiles, filters, specialty chemicals, medical products and the most modern cleaning products. Strength of innovation, strong customer orientation, diversity, and team spirit are the cornerstones of the Group. The 170-year-old company holds strong to its core values: a commitment to excellence, reliability and pro-active, responsible action. In 2022, the Freudenberg Group employed more than 51,000 people in some 60 countries worldwide and generated sales of more than €11.7 billion. Learn more about us and visit our digital home at freudenberg.com and read the stories that make us Freudenberg. Visit and follow us at www.freudenberg.com https://www.instagram.com/freudenberg.group/ www.youtube.com/FreudenbergGroup www.facebook.com/freudenberggroup *** Netiquette *** We look forward to receiving your comments and posts. On behalf of all users, we ask for constructive contributions, mutual respect, courtesy and tolerance. All contributions will be checked and we reserve the right to delete contributions. This applies in particular to unlawful content, incorrect statements, advertising for third parties, spam or slander. In addition, we reserve the right to remove comments that are otherwise inappropriate or incorrect. Contributions made by external users do not necessarily reflect Freudenberg’s opinion. Please find our data protect information here: https://www.freudenberg.com/fileadmin/downloads/english/2020-11_DataProtectionInformation_SocialMedia_EN.pdf
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