Hydrogen / H2 Business Development Manager (w/m/d) - Augsburg

New trends and expectations are reshaping the automotive industry. Inspired by the exciting new challenges associated with this revolution, Faurecia anticipates the future of mobility developing cutting-edge solutions for smart life on board and sustainable mobility. If you’re willing to contribute and create value for tomorrow’s cleaner and smarter mobility, Faurecia is the place to be.

Our Faurecia Clean Mobility Europe Division is looking for a:

Business Development Manager (w/m/d)

To strengthen our Team in Augsburg

for its Containerized Hydrogen Storage and Liquid Hydrogen Storage activities in the Zero Emission Business Incubator at its site Augsburg. Our Zero Emissions team is on the forefront of the hydrogen development and drives this exiting and highly innovative product field with its outstanding drive.

The main missions of the role are:

• Monitoring of worldwide market activities
• Identifying and prioritizing opportunities for business development
• Generating a full go-to-market strategy (incl. 1st target customers) and transferring it into an operational action plan
• Defining a product selling strategy per customer (incl. USP messaging)
• Executing the operational action plan per customer with both, ownership of customer interaction and coordination of the process in cooperation with internal stakeholders from other business fields
• Progress tracking and reporting of go-to-market execution on global level
• Setting up and maintaining organizational interfaces to other internal stakeholders
• Defining standards for Business Development in Zero Emission Business Incubator, aligned with global Faurecia standards
• Direct reporting line to the General Management

The ideal candidate will have:

• Engineering degree, business engineering or business degree
• Busines Development Experience with technical innovations, ideally in the field of hydrogen, gas-, water-, oil- or (green) energy supply
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen, ability to isolate key drivers for product success (market, commercial, technical, strategic)
• Strong communication, sales and team management skills, good ability to establish professional networks internally and on customer side
• Ability to develop easy and understandable product sales pitches for complex products, incl. strong USP focus
• Proactive, independent working style. Hands-on mentality and “getting-things-done” attitude
• Language skills: English, German and ideally French
• Mobility for international business travels for trade fairs, client visits and internal meetings

What we offer:

• The unique opportunity to build up a new business field within Faurecia
• Contribution to a highly innovative project that matters through its impact on the global decarbonization and the change of tomorrow’s mobility
• Exciting and varied tasks in a company with future-oriented business areas
• Flexible working time models and home office
• Very competitive and performance-oriented salary package
• Company pension plan with attractive employer’s allowance
• An open and international corporate culture with various company events