Highly motivated, loyal professional with a strong engineering background and over thirty years experience in the automotive, off highway, truck, bus and rail manufacturing industries. Member of the institute of engineering with a proven track record of generating business growth.
A firm believer in clearly understanding customer needs and building transparent, productive long term relationships.
Responsible for all commercial aspects of an OEM customer portfolio in excess of £60M annual sales.
Including:
Promote and maintain close customer relations with a partnership philosophy rather than Customer/Supplier.
Meet with all relevant customer personnel to assess and communicate upon customer and supplier performance across all departments.
Provide leadership for successful team performance.
Identify opportunities for sales growth with current and new customers whilst maintaining a diluted reliance on individual market sectors.
Produce and maintain a central enquiry log with a view to generating estimates/QAF's and submitting quotations in a timely manner enabling specific KPI reporting.
Liaise with both external and internal customers with regards to product feasibility, design for manufacture, built in quality, finance, cost and capital expenditure.
Maximise profit through cost recovery, cost reduction, VA/VE, continuous Improvement and automation.
Produce accurate, detailed, line by line, sales forecasts for all company divisions.
Highly focused on customer relations and relationships
Meticulous!
Thrives under pressure
Excellent communication skills
Reliable
Dedicated