Senior Sales Engineer / Project Manager (Tailor Rolled Blank (TRB)

Job Title: Senior Sales Engineer / Project Manager

Reports to: Tatsuya FUTAMATA, Mubea Japan

Job Overview:

This persons’s responsibility is to grow Tailor Rolled Blank (TRB) business by developing successful TRB designs in collaboration with Japanese OEM as his/her customers in charge. He/She directs, coordinates, and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration, and completion of the assigned customer project development.

Essential Functions and Skills:

• Primary point of communication interface to the customer for the respective program(s) within the Mubea TRB business unit as well as all the deliverables that are in the program they will manage.

• Actively searches for potential to apply TRB technology in body in white component design.

• Reviews customer product design for compliance with engineering principles, company standards, customer contract requirements, and related specifications.

• Coordinates activities concerned with technical developments, scheduling, and resolving engineering design and test problems.

• Coordinates preparation and delivery of project deliverables, design documents, and bid packages.

• Coordinates / monitors project documentation, timelines and schedules, technical performance, production, quality deliverables, and corrective action initiatives throughout product launch(s).

• Prepares and communicates program status in meetings to management steering committee and escalates critical issues. Provides reports on the status of project milestones and adjusts schedules accordingly.

• Manages prototype orders and samples for customers.

• Participates in cross functional development teams within the company (tooling, material, simulation, production, quality, industrialization groups) to develop and communicate program deliverables, priorities ,and timeline targets based on customer derived expectations and internal requirements.

• Identifies project staffing requirements and coordinates staffing with supporting organization managers.

• Interfaces with customers to provide project status reports and ensure customer needs are met.

Requirements

• Possesses the interpersonal skills to build relationships with key customer contacts responsible for the decision making process. Actively listens, probes and identifies concerns. Understands customer's business and speaks their language. Develops credibility, loyalty, trust and commitment. Ability to manage customers and keep them candid throughout the relationship.

• Customer oriented and entrepreneurial mindset

• Ability to understand, track, drill-down, and question activities and issues in all functional areas and make sound business decisions based upon that data.

• Strong influence-management, negotiation, leadership and assertiveness skills.

• Engineering degree: Bachelor or above preferably in mechanical / metallurgical or related area

• 5-year experience in automotive or related industries in Japan

• Strong presentation skills.

• Strong attention to detail and follow-through skills.

• CAD design skills necessary / Strong CAD design skills highly preferable

• Flexible in short-term/long-term overseas business trip

• Excellent level of verbal and written communication skills in Japanese

• Business level English prefera

Benefits

Office location: Yokohama or Toyota

Salary, Benefits and Conditions: TBD through interviews