Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:Manage a growing $6M+ market and drive sales growth by expanding key OEM accounts and developing new business opportunities.
Build and manage strategic customer relationships across engineering, procurement, operations, and executive teams.
Identify market trends, customer needs, and competitive insights to support growth strategies.
Partner with Engineering, R&D, Product Management, and Supply Chain to deliver customer-focused solutions and new product opportunities.
Develop and execute sales plans, negotiate contracts, and achieve revenue and profitability targets.
Manage pipeline activity, forecasting, pricing, and account strategies through CRM and data-driven analysis.
Travel up to 50% across North America to support customers, uncover opportunities, and strengthen key account relationships.
Experience in sales, marketing or product management with track record of increasing responsibility
Experience in gears, valves, pneumatics, automation, robotics, power transmission, or related industrial markets is highly preferred
Ability to sell technical products and communicate effectively with both engineers and executive decision-makers
Strong relationship-building, negotiation, and contract management skills
Experience in strategic, data-driven long-term growth
Engineering degree preferred in mechanical engineering, product/marketing management, technology or comparable knowledge and qualifications acquired in practice
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.
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- Experience in sales, marketing or product management with track record of increasing responsibility
- Experience in gears, valves, pneumatics, automation, robotics, power transmission, or related industrial markets
- Ability to sell technical products and communicate effectively with engineers and executive decision-makers
- Strong relationship-building, negotiation, and contract management skills
- Experience in strategic, data-driven long-term growth
- Engineering degree preferred in mechanical engineering, product/marketing management, technology or comparable practical experience
- Willingness to travel up to 50% across North America
- Experience using CRM to manage pipeline, forecasting, pricing, and account strategies
- Proven ability to develop and execute sales plans and achieve revenue and profitability targets
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
