Sales Area Manager - France South West Décines Fr H/F - Mahle

Your Contribution

As an Area Sales Manager, you drive commercial development in your region, manage distributor portfolios, and support sustainable revenue and margin growth while strengthening MAHLE's market presence.

- Manage and grow a portfolio of distributors within your assigned territory.

- Achieve sales, margin, profitability, and recovery targets.

- Implement commercial actions including promotions, field visits, product push activities, and local negotiations.

- Identify growth opportunities and successfully introduce new products to the market.

- Implement the commercial strategy and support distributor sales teams through training, joint visits and commercial activities.

- Achieve sales, margin, profitability and customer satisfaction targets.

- Manage and grow a portfolio of customers, prospects and key accounts (negotiation, offers, followup, recovery).

- Identify profitable business opportunities while safeguarding margins.

- Provide regular reporting, conduct market and competitor analysis, and recommend corrective actions.

- Cooperate closely with internal teams (Customer Service, Logistics, Marketing, Finance) and handle sector-related disputes.

Your Experience and Qualifications

- Business degree (Bac +2 equivalent minimum) or at least 2 years of relevant commercial experience; automotive/aftermarket knowledge is a plus.

- Strong command of MS Office and confidence preparing commercial proposals.

- Excellent communication skills, customer orientation and ability to manage priorities.

- Organized, autonomous, strategic, teamoriented and proactive, with strong commercial acumen.

- Willingness to travel frequently within the region.

- Fluent French; English is an advantage for collaboration within the Group.

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