Responsibilities:

• Person has regional scope and works under the authority of management located in Farmington Hills Michigan.
• Person will visit and interface on a regular basis with key customer and internal contacts.
• Pursue and secure new regional Nissan OEM business opportunities for wheel bearings.
• Responds promptly to inquiries and seeks out and calls upon potential and existing customers to identify needs.
• Pursue all avenues of technical requirements for new product development.
• Oversee the management of new program launches.
• Direct communications between sales and production facilities.
• Communicate in a timely manner all significant customer issues to appropriate personnel.
• Maintain timely and accurate records on customer calls and meetings.
• Provide management with verbal briefs and written reports of customer needs, problems, interests, market situations, competitive activities, new articles and any potential for new business and services.

Qualifications:

• 4-year undergraduate engineering or business degree (BSME, IE or Applied Engineering Sciences/ multi-discipline degree preferred).
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive sales
• Ability to function and lead in a team environment.
• Understands how Development Engineering fits in the manufacturing business (Quality, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Marketing)