Customer Benchmarking 

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of customer demands and trends. 
• Ensure effective lobbying and introduction of innovations. 
• Introduce new technologies to customers. 

Innovation Promotion 

• Identify customer trends and communicate them internally. 
• Collaborate with R&T and DEC to select and present solutions to customers. 
• Promote pre-development to validate these solutions. 
• Detect new market opportunities and propose research directions based on customer expectations. 
• Support product validation at the customer 

CBU Strategy Support

• Assist in developing customer strategies and making quotation decisions.

RFQ Coordinator - Business Acquisition Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical interface for customers during RFQs. 
• Gather customer requirements to initiate the business acquisition process. 
• Lead the business acquisition phase and the RFQ Team to meet CBU KPIs and customer timelines. 
• Supervise the analysis of customer specifications and facilitate agreement between internal departments and customer development teams. 
• Challenge the costing of technical solutions proposed in offers. 
• Provide optimal technical and economic solutions to the sales team for management approval. 
• Prepare and finalize RFQ technical documentation. 
• Organizes the transfer of the solution to the program management (ACO → PR)

       Serial production support

• Lead VA/VE cost improvement workshops to identify MOVE Measures and offer cost improvement ideas to the customer
• Support product validation at the customer
• Support serial change process

• Automotive Industry Awareness 
• Technical Product and Process Knowledge 
• Negotiation skills 
• Communication: Clear and persuasive communication, both verbal and written, to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical clients. 
• Active Listening: Understanding customer needs and concerns to tailor solutions accordingly
• Relationship management by Networking and customer retention
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to analyze customer requirements and market conditions to develop strategic approaches 
• Set Deadlines: Assign deadlines to each task for better time management
• Prioritize Tasks: Identify which tasks are most critical and tackle those first
• Good general education (Automotive engineer or similar)
• Knowledge of PC applications such as MS-Office e.g.
• Fluent in business English – customer language and additional language is an asset
• Understanding of compliance rules & their importance in the (global) market place