You will build and maintain strategic customer relationships by delivering account reviews, resolving service and product issues, coordinating with service providers, and ensuring contract, KPI, and pricing commitments are met.
You will support growth and planning by driving demand forecasting, executing pricing initiatives, and developing comprehensive account plans for current and future key customers.
You will lead strategic negotiation for both renewed and new customer scope of work agreements with a view to achieving profitable commercial relationships encompassing product pricing, deliverable SLAs, and appropriate terms for each account.
You will liaise with all internal stakeholders required to ensure the businesses ability to meet the commitments within an SOW prior to its finalization – e.g. Service Agent network
You will generate 1st hand information from multiple customer touchpoints (purchasing, operators, fleet management) to increase customer insights and enable GDT to tailor our customer strategy and industry insights through participation in industry forums and accessing industry resources.
What We're Looking For
You have tertiary qualifications in Sales, Business or Marketing
You have successful experience as a Business Development Manager of 5+ years in either;
the tyre or automotive industry
a vertically integrated goods and services business with revenues exceeding $50M.
You are highly experienced in multi-layer customer sales engagement.
You have strong negotiation skills with large national major account
You have strong sales and account management experience with track record of performance success
You have financial acumen and analytical skills
You have demonstrated success in development and execution of a strategic growth plan ideally within a challenging market space
What Will Set You Apart
You have experienced relationship management skills
You have highly developed sales and negotiation skills
You have strong written and verbal communication capabilities
You are experienced in strategic planning and implementation of local, state and national sales programs
You have understanding of financial processes and reporting to evaluate business metrics
You have strong influencing skills, impactful presentation skills,
You are action orientated and results driven
You have understanding of management and marketing principles
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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 63,000 people and manufactures its products in 48 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to www.goodyear.com/corporate
Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.
