Business Development Manager

Job Posting Title: MGR II BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Travel: 10% to 25%

**At TE, you will unleash your potential working with people from diverse backgrounds and industries to create a safer, sustainable and more connected world.**

**Why you should join**:
**Your Main Tasks**:

- In this role you, will support various customers especially in France and onsite activities for various TE Data Connectivity products. This will include new product introduction, support in customer product release activities and building a network with key customer stakeholders. You will work closely with the customer and internal cross functional teams to offer superior support and provide innovative solutions.
- Participate in the customer’s engineering activities; communicate with the program Team; understand the customers system requirements and proactively respond to their needs. Document and issue customer meeting minutes, record action items and reply in a timely manner; capture meaningful customer feedback and communicate to cross functional internal teams.
- Drive activities related to new technology and product concepts including bringing them to the TDP and/or NPD phase, with the long-term goal to transfer products and technologies into the Data Connectivity business pipeline.
Accomany the (pre-)validation process and progress internal and external to ensure that the customer milestones are met.
- Prepare and present detailed product specifications and technical marketing information to customer. Identify new opportunities and solutions to meet customer’s needs, propose modifications and enhancements to customer specifications.
- Translate future market needs and trends into requirements for next-gen Data Connectivity products. Drive early engagement, facilitate design-in of Data products and ensure speed to market as the main technical interface towards the customer.

**Your Ideal Background**:

- Engineer with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in mechanical engineering or similar
- At least 7+ years of experience in in a technical function, business development or product management in the automotive environment.
- Knowledge of the various contact systems incl deep RF understanding, key elements of harness architecture and preferences of the individual OEM / HM preferred
- Very good technical understanding
- Ability to develop high-level business cases to support product concepts
- Proactive, dynamic team player who can independently and seamlessly take on internal, external, and cross-functional activities in the organization
- Effectively communicate (oral and written).
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including strong ability to collaborate across functions and regions
- Fluent French, must be located in France with ability to visit customers 2-3 times per week

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**ABOUT TE CONNECTIVITY**
TE Connectivity plc (NYSE: TEL) is a global industrial technology leader creating a safer, sustainable, productive, and connected future. Our broad range of connectivity and sensor solutions enable the distribution of power, signal and data to advance next-generation transportation, energy networks, automated factories, data centers, medical technology and more. With more than 85,000 employees, including 9,000 engineers, working alongside customers in approximately 130 countries, TE ensures that EVERY CONNECTION COUNTS.

**WHAT TE CONNECTIVITY OFFERS**:
We are pleased to offer you an exciting total package that can also be flexibly adapted to changing life situations - the well-being of our employees is our top priority
- Competitive Salary Package
- Performance-Based Bonus Plans
- Health and Wellness Incentives
- Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Community Outreach Programs / Charity Events
- Employee Resource Group

**IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING RECRUITMENT FRAUD**

Across our global sites and business units, we put together packages of benefits that are either supported by TE itself or provided by external service providers. In principle, the benefits offered can vary from site to site.