Position Summary

Company Overview:

Wolverine Advanced Materials, an entity of ITT Corporation’s Motion Technologies Division, is a leading developer and manufacturer of high performance materials. Our core competency is in performance-critical, specialty elastomer–coated metals that offer damping and seal-ability solutions in the automotive and gasket industries.

ITT is a leading global manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and oil and gas markets. With a strong global footprint of more than 100 facilities, we are well positioned to solve the most critical challenges of our customers around the world. These locations include 41 manufacturing facilities in 14 countries in addition to global service capabilities. Through these worldwide operations, our 9,500 team members partner with customers to deliver enduring solutions that make a lasting difference and help the world move forward. ITT is headquartered in White Plains, N.Y., with sales in well over 100 countries. The company generated 2020 revenues of $2.5 billion. For more information, visit www.itt.com

Motion Technologies is one of three ITT Value Centers focused on the Transportation industry. The Motion Technologies Value Center generates over $1.274B in revenues and is made up of three main businesses.

Wolverine’s Global Footprint:

Sales and Technical Offices

· Dearborn, Michigan

· Chennai, India

· Oehringen, Germany

· Shanghai, China

· Tokyo, Japan

 

We employ approximately 550 people worldwide, with global headquarters in Dearborn, MI.

Manufacturing Operations

· Blacksburg, VA

· Changshu, China

· Leesburg, Florida

· Oehringen, Germany

 

Position Summary:

This position is responsible for the coordination of administrative functions for the sales support. Working independently with minimal supervision, performs relatively complex duties including creating and preparing routine materials and proofreading, verifying and editing all materials for accuracy and clarity. Answers customer inquiries and acts as liaison between customer and sales staff.

Essential Responsibilities

Position Responsibilities:

• Communicates with regular or prospective customers in person, via telephone, and e-mail.
• Sales-specific responsibilities: prepares reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information. Updates sales reports, weekly and monthly.
• Organizes work load to comply with deadlines and prioritizes, works independently to complete routine department or unit functions and prepare routine correspondence, reports, forms, and the like for review by supervisor.
• Consults with customers, suppliers or other individuals to discuss and to resolve issues for domestic and international quotations.
• Initiates & evaluates part change notices and secures customer approvals as appropriate. Initiates & evaluates sample requests and follows through to customer delivery.
• Assists in quotation process from receipt of RFQ to quotation to customer including price determination. Responsible for quote follow-up and win/loss reporting. Provide historical pricing information for same customer or similar materials. Assist in channel management.
• Assists with annual sales forecast for assigned accounts
• Supports and adheres to policies, procedures, and operational guidelines related to established quality management system (TS 16949).
• Maintains working knowledge of safety policies and regulations to ensure duties of self and others are performed in a safe manner.
• Ensure customer requirements and quality standards are met including but not limited to setting quality objectives, corrective and preventive actions, capacity analysis, logistics information, customer scorecards and portals and maintaining excellent customer relationships and focus.
• Additional duties and responsibilities as assigned. (Also included but not limited to processing annual price reviews and if necessary subsequent price increases; and administration of stainless steel surcharges.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.

The organization shall maintain documented information that demonstrates that all employees are aware of their impact on product quality and the importance of their activities in achieving, maintaining, and improving quality, including customer requirements and the risks involved for the customer with non-conforming product

If there are gaps within an employee’s competency and job position requirements, then additional training will be evaluated and the employee will be responsible for gaining certification or training as appropriate.

Position Requirements

Position Requirements:

• Position requires a high school diploma and one year of administrative course work or training in office administration; two (2) years of college or business school preferred.
• Five or more years’ experience in sales office environment interacting with various levels of management and customers.
• Direct work experience with an Automotive component supplier or OEM is preferred.
• Proficiency in all applicable computer software programs (MS Office: Word, PowerPoint, & Excel), and applications; ERP / Plex experience preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and interpersonal skills; must be detailed-oriented with strong organizational skills.
• Must be able to work well with others in a team-oriented environment
• Analytical ability sufficient to handle most complex administrative functions. Considerable ability to decide on and carry out appropriate course of action in office situations; to compose correspondence; to keep records and prepare reports, and to receive a minimum of detailed supervision and guidance.
• Proficiency with numbers, dollars and units of measure.

Wolverine Advanced Materials is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

Equal Pay Act Statement

We aim to pay our ‘ITT’ers’ fairly and competitively in the locations that they live and work. Pay-for-performance is a principle that we believe in, and employees are rewarded based not only on ‘what’ they accomplish, but also on ‘how’ they reflect ITT’s values. ITT offers a competitive salary and robust total rewards package, such as health insurance, 401(k), short and long-term disability, paid time off, growth and developmental opportunities, and other incentive compensation programs. Specific benefits are dependent upon whether or not the position is part of a collective-bargaining agreement. The salary offered to a candidate is based several factors such as candidate experience and qualifications, location, as well as market and business considerations.

Equal Pay Act Range

$51,900 - $77,500