OEM Key Account Manager

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Job Description

The Key Account Manager will be responsible for ensuring the competitiveness and full compliance of Valeo's offers with customer expectations. This includes identifying and understanding customer requirements, determining sales price objectives, implementing pricing strategies, and collaborating with regional teams for global pricing consistency. The role involves preparing budgets, managing selling prices and order intake targets, and handling operational responsibilities such as price negotiations, productivity plan building, and managing customer relationships during claims or crises. The Key Account Manager will also drive negotiations during the business acquisition process, provide commercial insights, and monitor order intake, turnover, market shares, price management, and overdues. The role involves working at a regional level.
Must have:
  • Identify and understand customer requirements.
  • Determine sales price objectives.
  • Implement pricing strategies.
  • Drive negotiations during business acquisition.
  • Prepare budgets and manage selling prices.

Job Details

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 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 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

  • Operate at regional level

  • 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
     

KAM Key Performance Indicators:

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

Job:

Key Account Manager

Organization:

BG Customer

Schedule:

Full time

Employee Status:

Regular

Job Type:

Permanent contract

Job Posting Date:

2025-05-29

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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About The Company

As a technology company and partner to all automakers and new mobility players, Valeo innovates to make mobility cleaner, safer and smarter. Valeo is a technological and industrial leader in electrification, driving assistance systems, reinvention of the interior experience and lighting everywhere. These four areas, vital to the transformation of mobility, are the Group's growth drivers. Valeo in figures: 20 billion euros in sales in 2022; 109,900 employees at December 31, 2022; 29 countries, 183 plants, 21 research centers, 44 development centers, 18 distribution platforms. Valeo is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

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Valeo, entreprise technologique, partenaire de tous les constructeurs automobiles et des nouveaux acteurs de la mobilité, œuvre pour une mobilité plus propre, plus sûre et plus intelligente, grâce à ses innovations. Valeo dispose d’un leadership technologique et industriel dans l’électrification, les aides à la conduite, la réinvention de la vie à bord et l'éclairage à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur du véhicule. Ces quatre domaines, essentiels à la transformation de la mobilité, sont les vecteurs de croissance du Groupe. Valeo en chiffres : 20 milliards d’euros de CA en 2022 ; 109 900 collaborateurs au 31 décembre 2022 ; 29 pays, 183 sites de production, 21 centres de recherche, 44 centres de développement, 18 plateformes de distribution. Valeo est coté à la Bourse de Paris.

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