Key Account / Sales Manager
At a glance
Mid-level Account Management role at Continental. Szeged · full-time.
Pay not stated
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Build relationships with customers and key decision-makers through visits and targeted promotional activities
- Create opportunities, prepare quotes, negotiate orders, and manage contracts against sales goals
- Resolve claims, complaints, and payment issues while coordinating launch and sales activities
- Shape account growth through long-range sales planning, market intelligence, and expanded supply opportunities
- Coordinate product application advice with commercial, engineering, and manufacturing teams
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree plus three to five years in the relevant job field
- Fluency in spoken and written Slovakian and English
- Project coordination, negotiation, and key account management capabilities
- Willingness to travel for customer work and trade shows
Who this fits
You will suit a customer-facing account manager who can own market and customer responsibility while coordinating across commercial, engineering, manufacturing, and sales teams. The role is based in Szeged with a hybrid setup and includes travel. You will also use Salesforce to record product feedback and support account performance updates.
From the employer
Continental develops pioneering technologies and services for sustainable and connected mobility of people and their goods. Founded in 1871, the technology company offers safe, efficient, intelligent and affordable solutions for vehicles, machines, traffic and transportation. In 2024, Continental generated sales of €39.7 billion and currently employs around 190,000 people in 55 countries and markets.
Guided by the vision of being the customer's first choice for material-driven solutions, the ContiTech group sector focuses on development competence and material expertise for products and systems made of rubber, plastics, metal, and fabrics. These can also be equipped with electronic components in order to optimize them functionally for individual services. ContiTech's industrial growth areas are primarily in the areas of energy, agriculture, construction, and surfaces. In addition, ContiTech serves the automotive and transportation industries as well as rail transport.
- Strengthen and develop close relationship with the customer and key decision makers
- Independent customer and market responsibility
- Opportunity and quote generation to meet sales targets
- Customers visits to develop relationship(s) with key decision maker(s) and identify growth opportunities (40%)
- Negotiation of orders and contracts
- Claim & complaint management
- Managing and resolving payment relevant issues
- Contract management
- Organize and manage promotional activities for the customer (e.g. tech days)
- New Product Launch support
- Coordination of sales activities
- Consulting on product application and value by coordinating with commercial, engineering, and manufacturing teams.
- in the case of sales responsibility for a Key or Strategic account - high interaction with Key Account Manager is needed
- Liaison with other sales related units e.g. Verticals within CES or Distribution
- Identify opportunities to increase Continental scope of supply (including cross divisional) - Develop strategic sales plan (+5 years) and ensure implementation
- Maintain familiarity of the market landscape including market share, competitive offerings, and emerging trends
- Gather market and competitive intelligence data for the vertical and provide feedback
- Support forecast collaboration process for designated accounts, provide regular updates on performance vs. goal.- Participation at tradeshows to help identify new market opportunities
- Product Performance feedback, including logging information into Salesforce
- Feedback on price trends & win-loss of orders
- Bachelors Degree
- > 3-5 years work experience in specific job field
- Slovakian and english language in written and speaking
- Project management skills
- Negotiation skills
- Key Account Management techniques knowledge
- readiness to travel
The well-being of our employees is important to us. That's why we offer exciting career prospects and support you in achieving a good work-life balance with additional benefits such as:
- Training opportunities
- Mobile and flexible working models
- Sabbaticals
and much more...
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Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging are important to us and make our company strong and successful. We offer equal opportunities to everyone - regardless of age, gender, nationality, cultural background, disability, religion, ideology or sexual orientation.
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