Automotive Key Account Sales Executive (m/f/x)

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Job Description:

Job Title: Automotive Key Account Sales Executive (m/f/*)

Job Description:

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Choosing where to start and grow your career has a major impact on your professional and personal life, so it’s equally important you know that the company that you choose to work at, and its leaders, will support and guide you. With a diversity of people, global locations, technologies and products, 3M is a place where you can collaborate with curious, creative 3Mers.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

As an Automotive Key Account Sales Executive for the Automotive and Aerospace Division (AASD) (preferably located in the Midlands), you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading all key account sales activity for core 3M AASD Solutions, implementing the Automotive Division Strategy, including Portfolio and Operational priorities.

• Driving high levels of customer engagement and collaboration across various functional teams and stakeholders within the customer's organization, leading to growth in account relationship, pipeline, and sales.

• Implementing core 3M AASD solutions in the customer's processes in close collaboration with application engineering and other internal 3M functional teams.

• Establishing the right 3M solutions and the path to success based on customer engagement, insights and deep process understanding.

• Support being part of the growing Global AASD Sales team, sharing success and learning from each other.

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher (Scientific/Engineering background preferred)

• Previous experience as technical sales or business development within Automotive industry.

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include.

• Advanced communication and prioritization skills with the ability to drive engagement/lead relationships and collaboration on multiple levels across many organizations.

• Ability to work in a technical/engineering environment with complex products.

• Strong commercial acumen

• Ability to work in a highly dynamic environment.

• Proactive and a strong networker

• Team player with lots of energy

• Self-motivated and driven to achieve results.

Role Location – UK

Work location - Ideally Midlands

​Travel: May include up to 50 % domestic but some EMEA based travel may be required

Supporting Your Well-being

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.  A good work-life balance is the best basis for motivated employees, therefore flexibility has been part of our DNA since the beginning. We want your job suits best to your life situation - not the other way around! Depending on the position and possibilities, we offer individual, flexible work models.

Resources for You

For more details on what happens before, during and after the interview process, check out the Insights for Candidates page at 3M.com/careers. If you have further questions please reach out to Max (our AI Virtual Assistant) via our Career Page. 

*At 3M, we believe diversity & inclusion are essential to innovation. We seek and value differences in people! This Job ad is addressed to all potential candidates. As an equal opportunity employer 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race/ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity-related matters, age or disability, or any other relevant characteristic protected under applicable local law.

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Our approach to flexibility is called Work Your Way, which puts employees first and drives well-being in ways that enable 3M’s business and performance goals. Our global Work Your Way initiative gives our employees flexibility in where and how their work can be performed, subject at all times to any location-specific rules and policies that may be in place from time to time (more information on such rules/policies can be provided upon request from the relevant in-location HR).

At 3M, we believe diversity & inclusion are essential to innovation. We seek and value differences in people! This Job ad is addressed to all potential candidates. As an equal opportunity employer 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race/ethnicity, nationality, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity-related matters, age or disability, or any other relevant characteristic protected under applicable local law.

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