At Gentex, you’ll help create innovative technologies that improve how people live, travel, and stay connected. Join a company driven by quality products across an evolving range of industries.
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Sales Manager II is responsible for utilizing their knowledge of corporate sales strategies and Gentex product lines to support sales goals and maintain assigned accounts.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Support corporate sales goals and promote growth in designated product areas.
- Support and promote new customer opportunities.
- Create and contribute to global sales strategies.
- Negotiate commercial sales items in an effective manner that supports global sales strategy.
- Develop understanding of customers’ organizational structure.
- Meet with customer teams on a regular basis to gather information and promote Gentex and its products.
- Represent the “voice of the customer” to internal teams.
- Process customer Requests for Quotation, with internal teams.
- Prepare Customer Quotations.
- Coordinate closely with all internal stakeholders.
- Form effective and lasting global relationships both internally and externally.
- Effectively manage customer relationships to balance requests and expectations with Gentex capabilities and corporate goals.
- Prepare sales presentations for global internal and external audiences.
- Support the product development process and project realization process.
- Prepare expense reports.
- Support customer-led events and attend industry trade shows.
- Entertain customers when appropriate.
- Process necessary documents with Gentex Legal Team.
- Other duties as assigned.
HOW YOU’LL DO IT
- Building collaborative relationships - developing, maintaining, and strengthening partnerships with others inside or outside the organization.
- Customer focus - Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Individual efficiency - Effectively managing time and resources so that individual work is completed efficiently.
- Interpersonal savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people. Building and maintaining solid working relationship with others.
- Managing ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear.
- Communicating effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey clear understanding, taking into account the unique needs of different audiences.
- Maintaining high level of honesty, integrity, and confidentiality with respect to company matters.
- Complying with all Company policies and procedures, safety regulations, company safety policies and safely perform all duties, including but not limited to, promoting a safe workplace.
WHAT TO BRING
- 2-year degree in related field, 4-year degree preferred.
- Experience in the Automotive industry in a related job function.
- Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally, as necessary.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products.
WHAT WILL HELP
- Tenacious, positive attitude with a strong desire to win.
Gentex is an equal opportunity employer
Gentex extends equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants and employees regardless of an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), disability, marital status, military service, height, weight, genetic information, or any other reason protected by law.
Assistance
Gentex is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at [email protected]. Gentex will not discriminate against any qualified individual who can perform the essential functions of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.
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Skills Required
- 2-year degree in related field
- 4-year degree in related field
- Experience in the Automotive industry in a related job function
- Must be able to travel both domestically and internationally as necessary
- Proficient with Microsoft Office products
- Tenacious, positive attitude with a strong desire to win
Gentex Corporation Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Gentex Corporation and has not been reviewed or approved by Gentex Corporation.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes multiple plan designs (PPO and CDHP) with HSA/FSA options, plus short- and long‑term disability and life insurance. Some locations provide an on‑site health clinic, adding convenient access to care.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include an employer‑matched 401(k) with a 5% company match mentioned and an Employee Stock Purchase Program. Salaried roles may also receive stock equity bonuses.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Quarterly profit‑sharing bonuses are available and often viewed as a strong part of total compensation. Total rewards are sometimes characterized as good for the area when these bonuses are included.
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What We Do
Gentex is a global, high technology electronics company that is managed by engineers and others who understand the freedom and discipline that's required to run an entrepreneurial company. We are a unique, profitable company that is vertically integrated in highly automated electronics, CMOS camera development and manufacturing, vacuum coatings, and glass bending and fabrication. We specialize in a broad spectrum of technologies and processes to deliver high quality products to the automotive, aerospace and fire protection industries. Thank you for visiting the Gentex Corporation (“Gentex”) LinkedIn page. This page is intended to share information about Gentex, its products and corporate culture. If you have specific questions about Gentex, please call our main phone number at 616.772.1800. Any content, views, opinions and/or responses to questions uploaded, expressed or submitted by third parties on the Gentex LinkedIn page, other than the content provided by Gentex, are solely the views, opinions and responsibility of the person submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Gentex. Gentex reserves the right to terminate any user's ability to access this LinkedIn page, and to edit or delete any material it deems inappropriate and/or in violation of any Gentex policy, including but not limited to: Equal Employment Opportunity, Discrimination and Harassment, Workplace Violence, Non-Solicitation, Conflict of Interest, Confidentiality, and Insider Trading.
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