Sales Coordinator

SEWS-E, established in 1999 is part of Sumitomo Electric Group (SEG). With a turnover in excess of 700M and over 20,000 employees in Europe, in today’s automotive industry, SEWS-E products set the standard for excellence, while meeting and exceeding customers’ expectation of quality, delivery and cost.

Sumitomo Electric Group, , currently operates globally in over 40 countries with 414 subsidiaries and affiliates, across five business segments: Automotive, Industrial Materials, Electronics, Infocommunications, Environment and Energy.

We embody and respect the Sumitomo Spirit, which has been handed down over 400 years and is respected to this day:

· Banji-nissei “Do your sincere best, not only in business, but also in every aspect of your life”

· Shinyo-kakujitsu “Place importance on integrity and sound management”

· Fusu-furi “Do not act rashly or carelessly in pursuit of immoral business”.

A career with SEWS-E offers a number of exciting and challenging opportunities, with many roles involving international travel. We are always looking for talented individuals who want to develop their careers both locally and globally.

PLEASE APPLY IN ENGLISH.

The Role

We are looking for a Sales Co-ordinator to join our team in our Brussels office, which is in Diegem, Flanders.

The Sales Coordinator will provide SEWS-E product quotations and support the commercial activities of the SEWS-E Toyota Business, assisting the Toyota Sales Manager responsible for Toyota Motor Europe (TME) business. Tasks will include but not be limited to:

• Fully understand Toyota quotation standards both in Japan and Europe
• Fully understand the business rules with Toyota both in Japan and Europe
• Collect necessary cost and price information from Sumitomo Japan and within SEWS-E Group
• Create Toyota wire harness quotations by using the quotation system
• Respond to customer requests for quotations (RFQ’s) and design change from the initial enquiry through to the submission of prices using the procedures within the Sales Enquiry Team (SES), ensuring that all quotations include relevant SEWS-E SES reference
• Raise, monitor and maintain customer enquiry records for all enquiries
• Understand the cost effect of design changes in sufficient detail to be able to justify them to the customer
• Maintain price tracking documents on a monthly basis, including agreed price change adoption timing, design level and copper level
• Send confirmed order prices, notification of price changes and notification of any commercial terms to the finance department as required
• Purchase order acknowledgements (POA) to be sent to the customer
• Agreed order prices to be loaded onto the SEWS-E sales system in accordance with SES procedures
• Manage and control price information and support Toyota Account Manager for the annual price review with TME
• Collect necessary information and raise compensation claims to TME
• Collect necessary information and create tooling quotations to TME
• Support project development as a liaison with Japan
• Supporting TME during SEWS-E site visits and SPTT activities
• Any other comparable duties as requested by the Line Manager

Knowledge, Skills & Experience Required

• Fluent English speaker
• Ability to communicate effectively via email, telephone etc
• High degree of flexibility and multi-taksing
• Basic communication in Japanese would be desirable
• Advanced working knowledge of MS Office

Special Conditions

• A degree of flexibility to travel to support meetings/reviews at SEWS-E and customer sites
• To satisfy customer and Sumitomo confidentiality requirements, ensuring conformance with company anti-trust compliance guidelines and rules at all times.

PLEASE APPLY IN ENGLISH.