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OEM Senior Key Account Manager

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In-Office
Tokyo
Senior level
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Tokyo
Senior level
The OEM Senior Key Account Manager ensures customer requirements are met, drives negotiations, manages budgets, and coaches KAMs while delivering competitive pricing and solutions in the automotive sector.
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Valeo is a tech global company, designing breakthrough solutions to reinvent the mobility. We are an automotive supplier partner to automakers and new mobility actors worldwide. Our vision? Invent a greener and more secured mobility, thanks to solutions focusing on intuitive driving and reducing CO2 emissions. We are leader on our businesses, and recognized as one of the largest global innovative companies.

Ensure the competitiveness and full-compliance of Valeo offers with the expectations and requirements

of the Customer:

  • Ensure that the customers’ requirements are all identified and well understood by the project teams.

  • Determine the sales price objectives according to his knowledge of the market and competitors position.

  • Implement the pricing strategy in the CAA.

  • Work together with KAMs in other regions to ensure global pricing and strategy consistency

  • Initiate and conduct all possible actions in order to be able to submit, within the time limits, a competitive

  • quotation technically and economically.

  • Participate in project teams in order to explain and defend the customer’s viewpoint in terms of quality, costs,

  • delivery times and in order to satisfy their requirements.

  • Teach the customer about new technologies/products/views/approaches/solutions to ensure attractive offers

  • Align and tailor the customer message with the Project Management team

Drive the negotiation during business acquisition process:

  • Deliver commercial insights

  • Take control in guiding the customer to a recommended action by discussing alternatives and reinforcing the

  • value of making a change

  • Keep PG organization informed of the negotiation and competition’s status on all global aspects of the offer

  • Review and if necessary negotiate with customer new contracts, nominations or any other contracts, always in

  • line with group policies and CAAs

Prepare the budget, manage and report the selling prices and the order intake target list:

  • Responsible for the turnover and its evolution for the customer(s)

  • Prepare CDP, MTP and budget for the customer
     

Operational Responsibilities :

  • Negotiate prices in case of modification (technical, volumes, raw material and inflation) and any market effect

  • Build and negotiate the productivity plans

  • Liaise with Sales Administration to ensure price update

  • Manage the relationship with the customer in case of claims and logistic/quality crisis

  • Monitor and take the necessary actions to reduce overdue.

Team development and training :

  • Coaching KAMs

  • Ensure the team has the adequate training on Products and on commercial skills

  • Ensure Challenger deployment methodology
     

KAM Key Performance Indicators:

  • Order Intake, Turnover, Market Shares, Price Management (SPI), Overdue

Job:

Key Account Manager

Organization:

PG/ROP Customer

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2025-10-29

Join Us !
Being part of our team, you will join:
- one of the largest global innovative companies, with more than 20,000 engineers working in Research & Development
- a multi-cultural environment that values diversity and international collaboration
- more than 100,000 colleagues in 31 countries... which make a lot of opportunity for career growth
- a business highly committed to limiting the environmental impact if its activities and ranked by Corporate Knights as the number one company in the automotive sector in terms of sustainable development
More information on Valeo: https://www.valeo.com

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