Automotive Key Account Manager - Tesla Account

Collaborate with Innovative 3Mers Around the World

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.

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 other curious, creative 3Mers.

This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

• Growing sales at the Tesla key account as well as account relationships at all levels including direct interface with Purchasing, Design, Development, Validation and Quality Engineering as well as Program Management located in California and other locations as required.
• Provide support at the Tesla North American locations or assembly plants as needed.
• Developing applications and advancing commercialization of new products and new product ideas throughout all segments of the vehicle.
• Utilizing effective leadership skills and product and market knowledge to solve complex system challenges with 3M products.
• Collaborating with the global key account team and managing opportunity pipeline with appropriate CRM tools.

Company Vehicle

This position requires driving a company vehicle, which will require pre-employment and ongoing review of motor vehicle history for candidates who are offered and hired for this position.

Your Skills and Expertise

• Bachelor’s degree (completed and verified prior to start) from an accredited institution.
• Three (3) years of combined sales and / or automotive experience in a private, public, government or military environment.
• Current, Valid Driver’s license.
• Master's degree in Business, Engineering or Manufacturing (Additional qualification).
• Knowledge of the automotive industry is preferred (Additional qualification).
• Five years of Automotive Sales experience (Additional qualification).
• Data processing / analysis experience using Excel (Additional qualification).
• Self-motivated and very comfortable working in automotive environments (Additional qualification).
• Strong communication and teamwork skills (Additional qualification).
• Proven history of responsiveness and service (Additional qualification).
• Experience with platform planning and proficiency with CRM systems (Additional qualification).
• Ability to work independently to deliver sales results yet team oriented to work within a highly matrixed internal and external organization (Additional qualification).
• Experience in long-term selling cycles to large, global, complex, multi-disciplined key accounts (Additional qualification).

Work location :

Hybrid Eligible (Job Duties allow for some remote work but require travel to Tesla’s Fremont and Palo Alto facilities at least 3 days per week).

Travel : May include up to 30% domestic / International.

Relocation Assistance : May be authorized.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

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.

Learn more about 3M’s creative solutions to the world’s problems at www.3M.com or on Twitter @3M.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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.

You have flexibility in where and when work gets done. It all depends on where and when you can do your best work.

Pay & Benefits Overview : https : / / www.3m.com / 3M / en US / careers-us / working-at-3m / benefits /

3M is an equal opportunity employer. 3M will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Please note : your application may not be considered if you do not provide your education and work history, either by : 1) uploading a resume, or 2) entering the information into the application fields directly.

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