Commercial Director - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire

Commecial Director

£negotiable

Milton Keynes Area

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MDE are looking for an experienced Commercial Director to join an established and rapidly growing manufacturing business. You will be a pivotal member of the strategic management team and will have direct influence on the future success of the company?

Are you the person to deliver it?

Key Responsibilities: -

• Explore and develop opportunities for new and additional business from OEM customers for the UK, Germany, and China.
• Responsible for maintaining current customer base and explore new opportunities and customers.
• Produce business specification documents, identify gaps and risks, and resolve issues.
• Establish, develop and maintain positive business and customer relationships.
• Achieve sales /profitability targets and overall financial objectives for commercial related accounts.
• Build and leverage strong relationships with key central customer contacts and act as the lead for strategic negotiations.
• Prepare plans, budgets and progress reports.
• Support customer meetings and visits at all levels regularly to ensure uniformity of communication with the customers.
• Develop goals, objectives and priorities and assign to the team.Keep up to date with recent market and industry trends, competitors and customer strategies.
• Identify unexpressed customer needs and potential products and/or services to meet those needs.
• Resolve and manage difficult situations with customers.

Qualifications & Experience: -

• Ideally Degree educated.
• At least 10+ years automotive commercial and sales experience in Tier 1 or OEM.
• Proven track record in developing and maintaining relationships with OEM customers.
• Fluent in German.
• Excellent selling, negotiation and communication.
• Financial Management Skills.
• Computer literate in Microsoft Office programmes.
• Clear and confident communicator.
• Ability to work calmly under pressure.