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What You Will Do

The Country / Sales Manager KSA (m/f/d) is a key role to drive our growth in Saudi Arabia and directly reporting to the Regional Commercial Director Middle East. As Country / Sales Manager KSA (m/f/d) you will be based in Saudi Arabia and be focused in expanding our footprint and customer base in the automotive industry for this region. You will be responsible to grow our business by building successful, long-term client relationships.

As a Country / Sales Manager KSA (m/f/d) you will be accountable for the performance of the sales in Saudi Arabia by setting strategic goal and plans, which are consistent with the overall business objectives. Your excellent communication and negotiation skills as well as your strong customer service orientation helps you to understand and address customer’s needs and requests, respond to their queries in a timely manner and aspire to deliver a positive customer experience with the overall goal of customers’ satisfaction. In this role, you will be responsible for developing sales of company products and/or services and all related sales and engineering activities to designated strategic or key clients.

Main Responsibilities

As a Country / Sales Manager KSA (m/f/d) you will use your experience and knowledge of the automotive and battery market in Saudi Arabia to

• forecast and develop an annual sales plan, understand and monitor the market dynamics, exploring market opportunities, developing and implementing strategies to maximize margins while increasing market share.
• build and develop existing and new sales and distribution channels to achieve sales targets through effective planning and implementing territory sales programs and field action plans.
• lead by example, chasing, qualifying and closing new sales opportunities by creating competitive, high quality proposals and taking part in tendering and bidding processes.
• Differentiate Clarios products, leveraging your deep market knowledge of the existing market strategies, products and services.
• seek and develop long term customer relationships and drive your territory growth

What We Look For

• University degree in Business Administration or in any related field
• Advanced work experience in automotive industry, focused on battery sales in GCC countries and understanding of technical aspects related to the battery business
• Experience in working within an international matrix organisation
• Strong analytical skills and detail orientation
• Ability to take ownership, entrepreneurial thinking and develop and implement short- and long-term territory sales programs and field action plans
• Advanced proficiency in working independently, being pro-active and self-organized, solution driven and foster self-motivation
• Ability to operate in an environment with multiple priorities managed simultaneously
• Ability to build strong working relationships, managing the territory holistically and a high service- and customer orientation
• Excellent communication and negotiation, planning and time management as well as teaming skills
• Fluent in English and Arabic
• Willingness to travel locally within KSA and regionally up to 50%
• KSA Driver's license

About Clarios:

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low-voltage battery technologies for mobility. We power progress through ever-smarter solutions for virtually every kind of vehicle. With 16,000 employees in over 140 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We answer to the planet with a rigorous ESG focus – advancing best-in-class sustainability practices and advocating for them across our industry. We recover, recycle and reuse up to 99% of our battery materials. Clarios is a Brookfield portfolio company.

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Clarios, LLC is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law, EEO is the Law (supplement), and Pay Transparency Non-discrimination. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please email [Click to show email].