CAREER

Your Tasks:

• Deepen the setup of the global account management for the VW Group business including strategic and operational facets. Contribution to the BIZFIT activity. Mentoring of the regions to strengthen the mind-set towards the GKAM organization
• Negotiate successful and monitor global RFQs in alliance with the involved regions and functions
• Forecast of sales vol. and turn over for capacity and invest planning in Japan
• Strengthen the usage of all processes and tools in the context of GKAM
• Promote new products and maintain a strategic and global customer relationship to inform customer development trends as guideline for further product development to the HQ in Japan
• Consulting of the regions how to steer negotiations based upon the global strategy in close relationship with the global HQ
• Directing the European business content in close cooperation with the EU Key Account Managers and the engineering team of the CG1. Defining frame contracts and quotations in line with the customer and product strategy
• Personal management of the EU sales team - Plan and organize the tasks and capacities inside the European team

Your Profile:

• Economical or technical study or equal qualification
• More than 7 years of experience in automotive OEM business, experience with the VW group would be an advantage
• Analytic understanding of numbers and statistics
• Good MS-Office knowledge, especially Excel and Power Point
• Strong negotiation skills
• Readiness for international business trips
• Intercultural awareness
• Perfect German and fluent English language skills

Your Tasks:

• Independent and proactive management and of marketing projects
• The focus is initially on the planning, implementation and success monitoring of a customer loyalty at EMEA level
  • Expand the reach/value of the program to drive on-going customer acquisition, encourage active program participation, and encourage lapsed members to re-engage
  • Extend successfully the loyalty program to further European countries and implement loyalty marketing initiatives in Middle East and South Africa
  • Lead the creation of campaigns and incorporating actionable strategies and measurable objectives based on analysis of sales, customer and marketing data to drive awareness and engagement in the loyalty program
  • Successful track record of members, promotions and program execution
  • Work with internal teams and partner agencies to develop new creative assets and promotional ideas via a multichannel strategy (direct mail, email, social, in-store)
• Assist in optimizing cross-departmental processes to improve efficiencies/ effectiveness

Your Profile:

• Successfully completed studies in marketing, business administration, communication or similar
• Several years of professional experience in marketing and project management
• Expertise in data-driven marketing and customer segmentation
• Experience in the agency and / or company environment
• High level of customer orientation, assertiveness and decision making ability
• Solid knowledge and experience in performance marketing and social media marketing
• Fluent in German and English spoken and written

Your Tasks:

• Responsibility for leading the technical services department EMEA
• Initiating of a European technical specialists functional network, through monthly technical meetings, sharing of information and supervision of local hotlines, warranty returns and training actions
• Lead of the NGK technical “eco-system” with content aggregation, access rights validation and preparation of data for external purposes
• Responsibility of company training strategy at EMEA level, incl. definition of target groups, training contents, training supports and partnerships with external training organizations (national / transnational)
• Responsibility of routine on-car product checks, including the related output documents such as fitting/unfitting instructions, videos, technical bulletins, press release
• Conduction of regular product benchmarks, comparing NGK products to other offers on the market, as well as monitoring the quality of NGK products in general
• Suggesting of new technical services or garage tools, from the concept development, to the business case and inclusion into the yearly marketing plan
• Interface to OEM technical teams, Category Management, Communication, external technical organizations and companies
• Supervising  the warranty department, (failure rates, warranty handling time and customer satisfaction)

Your Profile:

• Successful completed apprenticeship as certified technician or master “Meister” or academic degree in engineering or similar
• Work experience of at least 5 years with a scope of technical, training and project management in an automotive aftermarket or similar environment
• Good knowledge of automotive technical matters and aftermarket sales and marketing
• Experienced with OBD diagnostic tools
• Conduct and measurement of technical trainings
• Generation of innovations and new ideas
• Capacity to run cross-functional projects in a multinational environment.
• Strong self-driven and hands-on mentality with good problem-solving skills, very structured working manner. Ability to work independently but also in the team
• Excellent communication skills, also able to report to executive level when necessary
• Very good verbal German and English language skills

Your Tasks:

Technical and disciplinary management of three employees; Ensuring the debit postings and receivables management, operational support for customers with all tasks of the accounts receivable:

• Credit limit and risk management
• Monitoring of payment terms including monitoring of individual credit limits
• Development of a customer rating ABC for debtor purposes
• Tracking of overdue invoices and regular coordination of measures with sales
• Standardized dunning, debt collection management, bankruptcy processing and monitoring of quota allocation
• Analysis of the connection between ordering and payment behavior
• Responsibility, calculation and analysis of the DSO (Days Sales Outstanding)
• Customer-specific requirements in the automotive sector
• Serving international customers and accounts receivable management (see above) in Poland, Turkey, Spain, Italy, Greece, Scandinavian countries, Austria and Switzerland
• Process documentation, monitoring and optimization; Ensuring the internal and external control system
• Administration of the customer master data
• Allowance for doubtful accounts
• Checking and booking of sales rebates
• Creation of credits and charges
• Participation in monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements
• Contact for questions about the Value Added Tax Act

Your Profile:

• Successful completed commercial apprenticeship , e.g. study of business administration, accountant or similar
• At least 5 years of professional experience in accounts receivable and credit management
• Good knowledge of   Value Added Tax
• Experience in the analysis of key figures
• Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills and assertiveness
• Careful and independent work
• Confident knowledge of SAP-R / 3 and MS-Office, especially Excel and Word
• Very good German and English skills
• Responsible and independent way of working, accuracy and care
• Reliability and the ability to work in a team

Your Tasks

• Responsibility for the controlling and  all for all controlling related topics of a business unit
• Leading and coordinating the budgeting and planning process of the business unit
• Analyze segment profitability and trends, provide comments on variances that add value
• Providing reports to the management (balance sheet, cash flow, analysis, commentary)
• Responsible to coordinate, work on and contribute to business unit plan (short- and long-term)
• Align country and business unit targets with regional objectives
• Participation in investment and make-or-buy decisions, financial models and sensitivity analysis
• Identify and quantify risks and opportunities
• Support the month end -, quarterly and year end closing process (IFRS / local GAAP)
• Ad hoc analysis
• SAP-CO key user

Your Profile

• University degree of economic studies, preferably with majors in controlling/finance or comparable qualification
• Several years of professional experience in an international company, preferably in the Automotive sector
• High methodological competence in controlling and cost accounting
• Experience with group structures and matrix organizations
• Excellent analytical, communication and presentation skills
• Process-oriented and entrepreneurial thinking and acting as well as willingness to take over responsibility
• Structured and result-oriented work, self-reliance and self-initiative
• Self-confidence combined with the ability to pursue and resolve conflicts, high level of motivation and flexibility
• Very good knowledge of German and English, spoken and written
• Very good know-how of MS Office products, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Good know-how of SAP (FI, CO, CO-PA), experience with planning software & BI tools