Sales Engineer, Surface Solutions

Revenue

• Detect opportunities and aquire co-development projects that are potential series programs thru. customer project teams and technical counterpart.
• Support Sales during aquisition by preparing technical documentation, consultation, product planning to provide material
• Provides technical support and data to the sales team for the price calculation, consults and provides technical knowledge to the sales team, product group developpers and production locations
• Support sales department (PM and KAM) by choosing and developing the right products and for new projects

Profit

• Support ContiTech Value Selling by providing engineering background.

Strategy / Planning

• Support research technical strategy of JOEM and technical trend of Japanese automotive industry, and feedback to responsible department of SSL.

New Business / Product / Technology

• PM: Manage projects and sub-projects to achieve development-gates in accordance to customers schedule; Elaborate/evaluate feasibility checks for RFQ involving the technical service department
• R&D: Develop existing materials in cooperation with global R&D & Sales Teams to meet JOEM requirements
• Design: Propose surface design & product technology to JOEMs and support new developments, support grain and colour development until mass production approval with given project flows and budgets; Research technical and Design trend of Japanese automotive industry, and share with responsible department of SSL.
• Application Engineering: Contact person for technical customer processes. Support customer trials on-side; tracking trends for interior processing technolgies of JOEM. 

Quality / Productivity

• Responsiblity for reaching the specific, technical requirements of the respective OEM
• Ensures quality awareness, achivement of customer quality targets and customer service commitments
• Recommendations of technical possibilities (machine parameter, tool, etc) for processing our product portfolio 
• Resolving quality probelms on customer side by analysis, determination of corrective actions and coordination with production plants

External / Internal Relations 

• Develop and maintain the relationship with customer technical stakeholder  departments and key persons in charge thru. various development projects - built on trust and sustainability
• Organize/attend technical exhibition such like Tech-day and TMS, and promote ContiTech products and engineering capability."  

Organization Building / Support

• Support strategic initiatives and projects of ContiTech for JOEM customers on request                                                

Education / Certification

• Technical education in the field of plastics processing, engineering, preferable with a bachelor´s degree

Professional Experience

• Expert of production and application processes of Surface materials
• Expert of the whole product portfolio of Automotive Interiors (foils, films, upholstery materials)
• Technical lead of customer projects in the automotive industry

Project / Process Experience

• Expert for customer related production processes
• Project management based on APQP
• Surface Design Developments

Intercultural / International Experience

• Language skills:  fluent in English
• High level of interpersonal skills (communication, integrety etc.) and resiliance
• International project experience recommended

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