As a Customer Engagement Manager, you will bring your seasoned experience to work closely with Sales (Key Account Management and New Business Development) to win, manage and grow strategic engagements with OEMs and major Tier 1 suppliers to assist them striving in an internationally, economically and ecologically challenging environment.
Your primary mission is to bring maximum value through actionable findings & conclusions to the customer, which we call “Insights”.
You will coordinate a team of experts cross functionally in a global matrix environment to provide and explain your assigned customers with commercial as well as technical findings and insights from our collaborative benchmarking programs, leveraging the extensive expertise and global expert pool of A2MAC1.
You are able to coordinate and lead complex benchmarking programs in terms of timeline, scope & profitability with external as well as internal stakeholders from various functional areas, such as engineering, procurement, value engineering and finance.
You are driven and motivated to identify and realize opportunities for follow-up business and to further grow the collaboration with our customers.
Sales / Business Development
- Develop existing clients & drive growth
- Win, manage and grow strategic engagements
- Drive strategic growth by identifying key stakeholders & developing the customer with our extensive Insights offering
- Proactive identification of upselling and cross-selling potentials with assigned customers
You are responsible and lead on all Technical and Financial aspects of strategic benchmarking engagements assigned to you, from initial scoping discussions, prepare and present responses to RFIs/RFQs, through staffing if awarded to the successful program delivery and formal closing retrospectives.
Your day-to-day work as a Customer Engagement Manager includes managing the strategic benchmarking programs as well as creating convincing proposals in the acquisition phase.
Delivery
- Drive business by interacting with key stakeholders at the customer
- Orchestrating the engagement incl. external / internal stakeholders
You are our central interface to the assigned customer while performing the program and you are the key person to maintain and grow this type of programs and relationships with the key stakeholders of the customer.
Your responsibility is a clear and reliable communication to the customer across various departments and levels of seniority, from engineers to management & executive level.
You organize the delivery of your assigned program and the management of timelines according to the customers’ expectations and you orchestrate the customer relationships through proactive stakeholder management.
- Leading customer engagements for benchmarking programs and manage customer relationships
- Enable customers to solve their problems and realize value by using our full portfolio offering
- Coordinate strategic projects, incl. planning, ensuring quality, meeting deadlines, etc.
- Leverage global A2MAC1 pool of experts to identify and prepare actionable recommendations while keeping a “hands-on” mentality presenting those to customers
- Presenting results, key findings with the team and ensuring customer satisfaction
- Leading the delivery team to provide the right output to the customer on time
Professional Background
- Expertise managing complex programs in an automotive and global matrix environment ideally at OEM and/or Tier 1) within (value) engineering departments
- Completed Master studies (or Bachelor with 5+ years of relevant work experience) preferably within electrical engineering, mechanical engineering or business administration with engineering extension
- 10 years+’ work experience in the field of automotive consulting, technical sales, business development or customer engagement, with 3+ years at a project/program management level
Skills & Abilities
- Proven track record building deep and influential stakeholder relationships within large customer organizations
- Experience in technical and/or service sales or customer service is advantageous
- Technical curiosity, willingness to learn and adopt fast and “hands-on” player/coach mentality
- Strong project management, analytical and communication skills
- Customer oriented working style with good business development sense finding new opportunities to grow relationship
- An open-minded personality, self-confident appearance as well as very good English and X Language skills
- Ability to self-lead and others
- Appreciates regular business travel and spending time on assigned customer sites, globally
What We Do
A2MAC1 is the world leading provider of competitive technical benchmarking solutions across the automotive industry and beyond. It is a pioneer in the analysis and transformation of data into value, and a source of mission-critical insights into the market. With over 600 employees worldwide (Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States), the group’s offering is used daily by nearly 650,000 professionals from the entire automotive value chain and beyond (transportation, agriculture, appliances, etc.) for 25 years.
Its unique, easy-to-use, 3D proprietary technology platform helps manufacturers optimize the design and materials of their products throughout their life cycle, with a constant focus on innovation and cost and value optimization.
