Japanese Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative

【Position】

Sales & Trade Representative ( Japanese Bilingual )

【Summary】

A Japanese Automotive company is seeking a Sales & Trade Representative.

The chosen candidate must be willing to travel up to 25% - within KY and out of state.

【Essential Duties】

• 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.

【Working Hours, Working style】

9:00-18:00

【Working Location】

Georgetown, KY

【Salary, Benefit】

45k-60K

【Qualifications】

• Business sales experience and Japanese/English speaking
• Bachelor’s Degree in Management and/or related field and a minimum of 3 years of related or relevant experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment.
• 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

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $45,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application Question(s):

• Do you have at least 1 year of B2B experience?

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Language:

• Japanese (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Georgetown, KY 40324 (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Georgetown, KY 40324: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Willingness to travel:

• 25% (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $45,000 - $60,000