Key Account Manager – Automotive, Bus, Truck

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Key Account Manager focusing on premium OEM clients and projects in the automotive field. Overseeing project management from inquiry to production start, ensuring client satisfaction and business growth.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeKarlsruhe • 🇩🇪 GermanyJunior💰 €70,000 - €85,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You manage a strategically important customer in the commercial vehicle segment and continuously develop existing business relationships.
You coordinate customer projects — from inquiry and quotation phase through to successful series launch.
You coordinate technical and commercial alignments with engineering, production and purchasing to ensure projects are not only planned but also implemented.
You identify new business opportunities and support new projects through to contract signing.
You conduct negotiations, analyze market trends and lay the foundation for sustainable growth.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Professional experience in technical sales, key account management or a project-oriented sales environment.
Ideally experience in the automotive, commercial vehicle, mechanical engineering, plastics or industrial manufacturing sectors.
Degree in engineering or business administration, or an equivalent vocational qualification with relevant professional experience.
Technical understanding combined with commercial/business acumen.
Structured working style and the ability to successfully manage multiple projects in parallel.
Very good command of German and English.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Company car possible.
Home office possible after the probationary period by arrangement.
Structured onboarding.
International customer projects with a high degree of responsibility.
Training and development opportunities.
Company events.
Health and wellness programs.
Additional attractive benefits.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project ManagementMarket Trend AnalysisNegotiation SkillsTechnical UnderstandingCommercial Acumen

Soft Skills

Structured Working StyleAbility to Manage Multiple Projects