Automotive Sales Manager (M/F)

Job Description: Talents Executive (Linking Talents Group) is a recruitment firm dedicated to supporting companies in their search for executives / senior executives. Our client is a French family-owned industrial group with over 1,600 employees worldwide, a Tier 1 automotive supplier specializing in the design and manufacture of mechanical components and sub-assemblies. The Group masters, in particular, foundry, forging, and machining technologies and works with major players in the automotive, heavy goods vehicle, motorcycle, and industrial sectors. As part of its business development, our client is recruiting a Sales Manager Europe M/F, based in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, approximately 45 minutes from Lyon and 15 minutes from Villefranche-sur-Saône. Reporting to the Group's Sales Department, your priority mission is to DEVELOP NEW MARKETS AND CONQUER NEW CUSTOMERS IN EUROPE. This is primarily a business development position: identifying opportunities, prospecting manufacturers and equipment suppliers, detecting new projects, initiating tenders, and transforming opportunities into new business. You will then intervene in close coordination with the pre-project, technical, and project teams to build commercial and technical responses. You will also participate in defining the commercial strategy within your scope. The position involves approximately 2 days of travel per week, notably in contact with your clients' purchasing departments.

Profile Description: We imperatively seek a professional with SALES EXPERIENCE IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY, acquired on an INTERNATIONAL SCOPE. You master the specificities of the sales cycle and project development in the automotive sector and have demonstrated a true capacity to conquer and develop new accounts. Experience in the heavy goods vehicle sector, industrial vehicles, or industrial environments close to the automotive sector may also be considered. An engineering background is a real asset, though not indispensable, particularly for understanding the technical challenges related to mechanical components. FLUENT ENGLISH IS IMPERATIVE. Autonomous, persevering, and results-oriented, you enjoy opening doors, building new commercial relationships, and transforming opportunities into business.

Permanent contract (CDI) - full time Position based in Belleville-en-Beaujolais Executive status - 218-day flat-rate Fixed remuneration: 55 to 65 KEUR gross annual depending on experience Variable: up to 12 KEUR gross annual Company car Approximately 2 days of travel per week 1 day of teleworking per week possible