Business Development Engineer, EV Battery & Automation

The responsibility of the BDE is to successfully establish first sales in a strategic area (EV Battery / Automation) with new customer contacts and to ensure roll-out. This includes steering global projects, pricing and understanding customer needs.

The Business Development Engineer (BDE) is responsible to enter new customers or new customer segments for one strategic field of tesa. He/She initiates new contacts, starts and implements first sales projects at high potential customers.

He/She visits customer’s design centers, Headquarters or other Decision Making Units and establishes first relationships. The responsibility of the BDE is to successfully establish first sales in a strategic area (EV Battery and Automation) with new customer contacts and to ensure roll-out. This includes steering global projects, pricing and understanding customer needs.

Educational qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Engineer /technical background.
• Very good English and Japanese skills

Relevant experience

• 5 year of relevant technical experience in automotive with customers contacts.
• 3 years sales experience or similar communication and networking experience

Personal characteristics & behaviours

• Strong acquaintance to technical issues, good curiosity/ inventiveness.
• Despite this strong tech background, good understanding of customer “non rational drivers”: = nGood emotional intelligence to go below the surface. Good “technical story teller”.
• Is self-confident and can make his point and advocate his opinions inside tesa organization:GKAM team, R&D, Marketing, countries.
• Active listener and excellent net worker within tesa organization and customer organization.
• Excellent socialiser and team player
• High level of intercultural awareness
• Keep his self-control and analytical capabilities under pressure.

At tesa, we create adhesive solutions that improve the work, products and lives of our customers.

How we do it? At tesa, we dare to create! Therefore, we team up, we challenge ourselves and we set the pace. But we don’t just do that somehow. We act responsibly and always focus on our customers. Because only then we are able to achieve our goals and continuously improve our results.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and regard diversity as important for our long-term success. We expressly reject all forms of direct and indirect discrimination. All qualified applicants will be equally considered for employment regardless of their national origin, background, personal preferences and believes.

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1. Resume (English/Japanese)
2. Rirekisho (Japanese)
3. Application sheet (The format will be provided by email)