Business Development Manager

Why you should join

TE Connectivity's Business Development Team for Data Connectivity identifies, develops, and implements near-term and long-term business development strategies relating to the development of new products, technologies and services. The team identify potential markets and product applications and determine the feasibility of business and product development.

Your Main Tasks:

• In this role you, will support various customers especially in France and onsite activities for various TE Data Connectivity products. This will include new product introduction, support in customer product release activities and building a network with key customer stakeholders. You will work closely with the customer and internal cross functional teams to offer superior support and provide innovative solutions.
• You will drive identification and business relevant initiatives for new Automotive Data Connectivity applications by collaborating closely with TEs development engineering, account development team and sales.
• Participate in the customer’s engineering activities; communicate with the program Team; understand the customers system requirements and proactively respond to their needs. Document and issue customer meeting minutes, record action items and reply in a timely manner; capture meaningful customer feedback and communicate to cross functional internal teams.
• Drive activities related to new technology and product concepts including bringing them to the TDP and/or NPD phase, with the long-term goal to transfer products and technologies into the Data Connectivity business pipeline.
  Accomany the (pre-)validation process and progress internal and external to ensure that the customer milestones are met.
• Prepare and present detailed product specifications and technical marketing information to customer. Identify new opportunities and solutions to meet customer’s needs, propose modifications and enhancements to customer specifications.
• Facilitate communication between TE, customers and new technology providers (incl. French OEMs & CAMs, start-ups, consortia, academia) on development efforts and trends for current and next-gen Data Connectivity products and evaluate upcoming architectures, applications, and customer processes to provide strategic input to Product Management for future Data Connectivity portfolio.
• Translate future market needs and trends into requirements for next-gen Data Connectivity products. Drive early engagement, facilitate design-in of Data products and ensure speed to market as the main technical interface towards the customer.

Your Ideal Background: 

• Engineer with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or similar
• At least 7+ years of experience in in a technical function, business development or product management in the automotive environment.
• Knowledge of the various contact systems incl deep RF understanding, key elements of harness architecture and preferences of the individual OEM / HM preferred
• Very good technical understanding
• Ability to develop high-level business cases to support product concepts
• Proactive, dynamic team player who can independently and seamlessly take on internal, external, and cross-functional activities in the organization
• Effectively communicate (oral and written).
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong ability to collaborate across functions and regions
• Fluent French, must be located in France with ability to visit customers 2-3 times per week

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