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A Japanese Automotive company is seeking a Japanese-English Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative to join their Georgetown, KY location.

This is a great opportunity for bilingual candidates who have at least 1 year of sales experience (B2B sales) and are looking to further develop their career. This position requires business level Japanese and candidates are required to travel 25% of the time both within KY and to other states.

DOE and skills, this position’s pay range is between 45k-60k and in includes a very comprehensive benefit package.

Your essential duties would be as follows:

● Liaise between product development, sourcing, supply chain management, vendors, shipping & receiving and operations for new products starting production and changes to products in production.

● Manage detailed launch plan on all new major projects. This includes product definition delivery, launch timeline, and material readiness as needed.

● Manage product change processes and initiate and coordinate engineering changes and product closeout.

● Generate sales bids, cost summaries, report review of sales, create forecast reports

● Create and extend quotations for new business projects

● Visit various client sites to establish relationship for future sales bids/projects

● Establish and apply purchase contract terms, create purchase orders and invoices

● Manage and oversee various shipments for projects

● Manage and oversee A/R and A/P reports assigned to project

● Assist with the Import/Export customer clearance process, assign HS codes

● Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize project progress.

● Develop project scopes and objectives with project members to ensure on-time completion.

● Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.

● Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

● Maintain an open schedule to communicate with Japan vendors

● Must have knowledge of basic engineering concepts, business management, account management, materials management.

● Must be proficient in MS Office - specifically MS Excel – formula and function.

● All other duties as assigned.

Please consider the following qualifications:

●Business sales experience and Japanese/English speaking

● Bachelor’s Degree in Management and/or related field and a minimum of 1 year of related or relevant experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment required ( 3 years of experience preferred) .

● Excellent written and verbal communications skills – English and Japanese

● Knowledge of manufacturing processes is a plus but not required.

● Must be able to travel and work at the customer sites – up to 25%.

● Must be able to travel out of state