Sales Manager

As a successful family-owned company on a path to global growth, the Brose Group offers challenging responsibilities and exciting career opportunities to performance-driven, skilled specialists with solid professional knowledge and proven career expertise who wish to contribute to our company’s success.

Your tasks

• Act as the primary sales interface for key European OEM customers (e.g., BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo), building long-term partnerships and driving profitable business growth.
• Lead the development, submission, and negotiation of commercial offers across the full lifecycle of seating projects—including new business quotes, change management, and cost optimization initiatives.
• Develop in-depth understanding of customer expectations, platform strategies, and sourcing roadmaps; align Brose’s commercial strategy accordingly to maximize business opportunities.
• Maintain regular communication with customer purchasing, engineering, and program teams to ensure alignment on volumes, pricing, investment agreements, and program changes.
• Monitor and analyze commercial KPIs such as take rates, volume forecasts, price evolution, and profitability across programs; report key insights internally and ensure timely updates in relevant systems (e.g., SAP, GECOS).
• Coordinate closely with global and regional cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering, project management, controlling, logistics) to support project milestones and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Support strategic sales planning, including quarterly forecasts, long-term customer strategy, and competitor intelligence.
• Track and evaluate market trends and competitor activities in the automotive seating segment; translate findings into actionable commercial insights.
• Review and manage all customer contracts and commercial documents (e.g., Nomination Letters, Tooling Agreements, Warranty Terms, General Terms and Conditions).
• Ensure smooth transitions through project life stages, from acquisition to SOP/EOP, including service parts planning and tooling handover coordination

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field; technical understanding of seating systems is strongly preferred.
• 6–8 years of experience in automotive Tier-1 sales, including at least 5 years in seating or interior systems, with proven success managing European OEM accounts.
• Solid knowledge of automotive product development cycles and seating system components (e.g., structures, adjusters, comfort features).
• Strong negotiation skills and commercial acumen, with experience handling complex RFQs, engineering changes, and long-term price agreements.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills; able to interface effectively with both customers and internal stakeholders across regions.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written); German proficiency is a plus.
• Proficiency in SAP and other commercial reporting tools; analytical and detail-oriented.

With our Brose work environment, we offer you a modern working environment:
The flexible office concept promotes a working atmosphere characterized by open communication and the greatest possible efficiency. Variable working hours give you sufficient leeway to balance family and career. Our employees receive results-oriented compensation as well as innovative social benefits in the areas of health, fitness and company catering.

Please send your application documents via our online form.