Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager

The Commercial Manager at Gestamp Chattanooga Plants is responsible for overseeing all cost estimation and commercial evaluation activities. This role involves developing and executing a comprehensive commercial strategy aimed at increasing revenue, improving profitability, and ensuring long-term business sustainability. The manager works closely with cross-functional teams to meet project milestones and deliver accurate, timely quotes that align with the company's financial goals. By providing strategic guidance and maintaining strong internal and external relationships, the Commercial Manager plays a key role in driving the success of commercial operations for all three Chattanooga sites.

Duties and responsibilities include coordinating the costing of quotations with Gestamp Plants, ensuring alignment with established guidelines and managing the commercial aspects of new business opportunities and engineering changes. The manager will create and manage financial models to evaluate the profitability of quotations, ensuring returns meet corporate targets. Collaboration with cost accountants and engineers to maintain standard costing rates used in quotations, with a strong understanding of each plant's capabilities and capacity is also required. Developing and aligning cost assumptions for new products and business opportunities in coordination with plant teams, preparing customer quotations, cost breakdowns, financial models, and other required documentation, maintaining accurate customer pricing data in the system to ensure billing accuracy, supporting business planning by understanding long-term customer and pricing agreements, managing deliverables to Corporate Sales, ensuring timely and accurate submissions, partnering with the sales team to define quote parameters for new customer RFQs, and participating in financial and quote review meetings with Gestamp Plants and corporate leadership are also part of the role. The Commercial Manager will serve as a key interface, building strong relationships with customers, business units, and plant teams, attending internal and customer meetings as required to support commercial activities, assisting in developing departmental standards and procedures to improve efficiency and consistency, coordinating supporting quote documents, including Bills of Material, Customer Price Breakdowns, and Statements of Requirements, and actively participating in the Business Planning process to align commercial strategies with company goals.

The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in costing, financial modeling, analysis, and customer account management. Proven experience in automotive costing and customer account management is required, and prior experience in automotive metal stamping and assembly is preferred.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardless of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.

Join a leading international group in the automotive sector with a clear commitment to innovation, a trail-blazer in Industry 4.0 and engaged with ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria. Build a career in a global environment with many opportunities to grow both professionally and personally by participating and leading innovative and international projects. Find a supportive and friendly environment where the emphasis is on team work, continuous improvement, trust, a dynamic spirit and thinking outside the box, and a passion for a job well done.