Senior Sales Manager (m­­/­­f­­/­­d)

As a Senior Sales Manager (m/f/d) you have sales responsibility within the key account Volkswagen Group. You build and maintain strong, long-lasting customer relationships with your assigned key account / customer(s). You create and execute a strategic global account management plan for your key account / customer(s). It is part of your responsibility to strongly interact and cooperate with your global Sales colleagues to grow the business globally as a team. You assure good alignment with your technical counterparts within EB (customer center, product expert group, etc.). You partner with customers to understand their business needs and objectives (create awareness prior to RFI whenever possible). Your task is to effectively communicate the EB value proposition through proposals and presentations. You work closely together with product management at your customer to ensure success for existing and new products. You network with your global colleagues to learn from each other and to generate new business for the company. You prepare quote reviews and participate in complex negotiations and deal closing, based on sound market and product understanding. You strongly interact with your global Sales colleagues. You are responsible for all sales activities (acquisition, development, production, post production until end of product life). You contribute to improvements in the sales process. Your way of working can be described as ensuring overall customer satisfaction.