Senior Sales Director – Mobility, Industrial, and Advanced Technology

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Senior Sales Director growing OEM accounts across mobility, industrial, and advanced technology markets. Driving demand, forecasting, contracts, and programs for USA Rare Earth's critical-minerals supply chain.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead USA Rare Earth's commercial growth across mobility, industrial, and advanced technology markets
  • Drive demand generation and close orders with OEM customers across the assigned region
  • Rapidly build U.S. market position and brand awareness across target verticals
  • Own and grow an end-to-end book of business across focus markets
  • Develop and execute account plans aligned to annual revenue targets
  • Build and maintain executive-level customer relationships
  • Guide customers through material qualification and program approval processes
  • Lead development of MOUs, joint development agreements, and supply agreements
  • Represent USA Rare Earth at tradeshows, conferences, and customer events
  • Own demand planning and forecasting for assigned accounts
  • Coordinate with Operations, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing to align capacity with customer timelines
  • Deliver monthly forecasting and demand plans with forecast accuracy of 80% or greater
  • Translate program schedules, ramp curves, and volume forecasts into production plans
  • Maintain CRM account, opportunity, and pipeline data
  • Identify and qualify new opportunities and maintain pipeline coverage of at least 10x annual revenue targets
  • Develop pipeline and convert opportunities into purchase orders
  • Track pipeline health, win/loss trends, and account growth
  • Develop multi-year account plans and pursuit roadmaps
  • Collaborate with Application Engineering and Product Marketing on technical solutions
  • Lead contract negotiations, pricing strategy, and commercial terms
  • Partner with executive leadership on strategic planning, market entry, and investment prioritization
  • Monitor competition, program timelines, and industry trends
  • Provide voice-of-customer feedback to Product, Engineering, and Leadership
  • Contribute to long-range strategic planning

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, Engineering or a related field required
  • MBA or other advanced degree preferred
  • 10+ years of progressive commercial or sales experience
  • 5+ years focused on mobility, industrial, advanced technology, or an adjacent industry
  • Demonstrated success managing complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles and growing account revenue year over year
  • Experience with industrial demand planning and forecasting in a manufacturing or industrial supply environment
  • Proven CRM proficiency (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales or Salesforce.com)
  • Existing relationships with automotive, industrial motor, automation, robotics, or related OEM manufacturers strongly preferred
  • Ability to travel 60% or more
  • Proven track record of building and growing complex, technical accounts within long sales-cycle industrial markets
  • Strong executive presence and communication skills
  • Ability to independently manage a full sales cycle, from prospecting through contract negotiation and account growth
  • Skilled in industrial demand planning and forecasting
  • Proficiency with CRM platforms (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales preferred; Salesforce.com or Hubspot acceptable)
  • Working knowledge of automotive, industrial motor, automation, and robotics OEM supply chains
  • Familiarity with humanoid robotics, factory automation, material handling, and fluid control equipment markets
  • Understanding of electrification trends, motion control architectures, and automation and robotics actuator technologies

Benefits:

  • Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
  • Equal employment opportunities
  • Home office work environment