JOB DESCRIPTION
- Leads all commercial activity and related customer communication for responsible programs.
- Servces as the voice of Adient to the customer and the voice of the customer internally at Adient
- Strong leader with excellent organizational skills who develops creative strategies for profitable growth
· Initiates, develops, and grows customer relationships with Purchasing, Engineering, and Program Execution personnel, paving the way for optimal and efficient commercial negotiations
· Strong financial skillset and solid understanding of all Adient financial metrics. Evaluates business cases and presents to leadership for approval
· Leads change management process from a commercial perspective and works with Program Excellence Teams to maximize commercial opportunities during the product development process
· Coordinates across all product groups to develop commercial recovery strategies and to negotiate fair and reasonable commercial recoveries (obsolescence, mix changes, increased demand over CPV, scrap etc.)
· Develops and maintains an accurate commercial action item list in Salesforce in support of annual company commercial commitments
· Understands customer documents and owns submission of necessary documents required to for quotes and other commercial claims
· Ensures purchase orders are updated in a timely and accurate manner, upon resolution of commercial negotiation with the customer
· Mentors account managers
PRIMARY LOCATION
Torihama Technical Center
What We Do
Adient is a global leader in automotive seating. With approximately 77,000 employees in 32 countries, Adient operates 202 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. Our integrated, in-house skills allow us to take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into more than 19 million vehicles every year.