Account Manager - Automotive OEM and Tier I

Appletree Executive Recruitment; Woodstock; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational corporation in Woodstock, Canada, is seeking a candidate with automotive parts manufacturing experience to partner with key accounts. This role involves understanding customer challenges and proposing innovative solutions. The company is known for its excellent work-life balance, internal training, and competitive wages, offering opportunities for advancement and travel to customer sites 1-2 days per week.

Benefits

401K benefits program

Opportunities for advancement

Industry-competitive wages

Qualifications

• Minimum two years of automotive parts manufacturing experience with program or project management exposure.
• Ability to develop strong customer relationships.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites 1-2 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Automotive OEM and Tier I accounts.
• Understand design and manufacturing challenges.
• Propose innovative solutions for value-added assemblies.

Skills

Automotive parts manufacturing experience

Project management experience

Sales/account management experience

Relationship building

Willingness to learn

Job description

About the Role

This is a long-standing well established employer - generally viewed as the LEADER in their field. Known as a good place to work with low employee turnover and offering good work-life balance. They are a large multinational corporation with a worldwide presence and excellent internal training and development.

This person will partner with Automotive OEM and Tier I accounts, embedded themselves into the customer's engineering and purchasing teams. Working on new programs understanding design and manufacturing challenges, and proposing innovative solution for value added assemblies. Backed by product development engineering and quotations teams internally, this position leverages expertise to find solutions that add value and reduce cost.

Qualifications

• Two years of automotive parts manufacturing experience with some experience in program, project, product management or sales/account experience
• A willingness to learn unique products and processes, to become a knowledge expert
• A desire to meet and serve customers, developing close relationships and trust
• A willingness to travel to customer sites 1-2 days per week
• Achieve results, through hard work and by becoming the customer's trusted partner

Benefits

Offered is the opportunity to work with a stable multinational organization with a broad customer base. Good opportunities for advancement as this company has multiple facilities in Canada, USA,Mexico, Europe and Asia easily allowing its employees to apply for positions locally, nationally and even internationally. Also offered is a good pension/401K benefits program along with industry-competitive wages.