Looking for a new professional challenge? Then fast-track your career with us – at one of the world's leading manufacturers of magnetic materials!
VAC Magnetic Japan as part of the VACUUMSCHMELZE, a global leader in the development and production of high-performance magnetic materials and advanced magnetic solutions. With more than 100 years of innovation and expertise and approximately 4,000 employees worldwide, VAC serves some of the most demanding industries, including automotive, aerospace, energy, electronics, and industrial applications.
For many years, VAC Magnetic Japan has been supplying advanced magnetic materials and rare-earth permanent magnets to customers in cutting-edge fields such as automotive (EV-related, etc.), industrial equipment, and aerospace, including in Japan and around the world.
As a strong link between our Japanese customers and our German headquarters, we support Japanese manufacturing.
Join VAC Magnetic Japan and become part of a company that combines global expertise with local excellence, shaping the technologies of tomorrow.
For our Sales Department of VAC Magnetic Japan based in Tokyo (Japan) we are looking for an
Inside Sales Manager (m/f/d)*.
Inside Sales Duties
- Handling inquiries from new and existing customers regarding products (initial response and needs assessment)
- Supporting customer information management and forecast (sales forecast) management
- Business communication via email and telephone with the German headquarters and branches in Singapore, South Korea, and China (using English)
- Handling customer support for sales agents in addition to direct sales to manufacturers
Sales Assistant Duties
- Order notification, delivery date management, shipping procedures, and domestic delivery arrangements
- Creation of various documents such as quotations
- Office management duties (back office support such as payment processing and equipment management)
• English proficiency necessary for practical work (smooth communication in reading and writing, and conversational level or higher)
• Basic PC skills (basic operation of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint)
• Strong desire and interest to build a career as an outside sales representative (field sales) in the future
• Sales experience at a manufacturer or trading company, or experience as a sales assistant or in inside sales.
• Basic knowledge and experience in trade administration.
• Experience in manufacturing related to automobiles, industrial equipment, electronic components, etc.
• Experience working at a foreign-owned company.
• Experience using SAP/Salesforce (or equivalent IT skills)
Your profile:
• Individuals with a strong desire to advance own careers in sales and work globally in the future
• Individuals who can work collaboratively in a team and respond flexibly and proactively to changing situations
• Individuals who can communicate smoothly with customers and internal and external stakeholders (including overseas staff)
• Individuals who can handle detailed tasks such as administrative processing and data management accurately and responsibly
*For reasons of better readability, the simultaneous use of the language forms male, female and diverse (m/f/d) is avoided. All personal or professional titles apply equally to all genders.
We passionately advance the technologies of today and tomorrow. As a reliable partner, we work with our customers to develop application solutions that make it possible to meet constantly increasing requirements. We push technical boundaries with groundbreaking solutions. The use of our materials as well as our refined solutions and their special magnetic properties are the key to making our customers’ systems smaller, lighter, more efficient and, last but not least, safer. Thereby we contribute significantly to the saving of resources and the protection of our environment.
The world of magnetism is our home. Using a wide variety of raw materials, VAC composes more than 170 alloys with outstanding properties.
In-depth material know-how paired with high application competence enables outstanding solutions, from semi-finished alloy products and parts to cores, inductive components, rare-earth permanent magnets and magnet systems.
Furthermore, we are extensively vertically integrated which allows us to produce e.g. cores, components, stamped parts, lamination stacks and permanent magnets with full control over the material properties. This simplifies business for our customers and clarifies responsibilities between all steps within the value chain. At the same time, we have an extensive interface to various industries on all levels of the value chain, which helps us to understand present and future market requirements comprehensively. This enables us to focus our research and development teams accordingly.
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