Sales Area Manager - France South West

Your Contribution

• Manage and grow a portfolio of distributors within your assigned territory.
• Achieve sales, margin, profitability, and recovery targets.
• Implement commercial actions including promotions, field visits, product push activities, and local negotiations.
• Identify growth opportunities and successfully introduce new products to the market.
• Implement the commercial strategy and support distributor sales teams through training, joint visits and commercial activities.
• Achieve sales, margin, profitability and customer satisfaction targets.
• Manage and grow a portfolio of customers, prospects and key accounts (negotiation, offers, follow‑up, recovery).
• Identify profitable business opportunities while safeguarding margins.
• Provide regular reporting, conduct market and competitor analysis, and recommend corrective actions.
• Cooperate closely with internal teams (Customer Service, Logistics, Marketing, Finance) and handle sector-related disputes.

Your Experience and Qualifications

• Business degree (Bac+2 equivalent minimum) or at least 2 years of relevant commercial experience; automotive/aftermarket knowledge is a plus.
• Strong command of MS Office and confidence preparing commercial proposals.
• Excellent communication skills, customer orientation and ability to manage priorities.
• Organized, autonomous, strategic, team‑oriented and proactive, with strong commercial acumen.
• Willingness to travel frequently within the region.
• Fluent French; English is an advantage for collaboration within the Group.

Facts about the job

• Entry level: Experienced hires
• Part- / Full-time: Full Time
• Functional area: Sales
• Department: BU3 Lifecycle and Mobility
• Location: Décines, FR
• Company: MAHLE

Your future at MAHLE

As a team player and someone who thinks ahead, you can deploy all your skills with us. In cooperation with colleagues from different countries and areas, you contribute in designing the mobility of the future. When selecting MAHLE, you choose trend-setting technologies and strategies. Are you interested in working with us and developing efficient and environmentally-friendly solutions, optimising existing products, and turning innovative ideas into reality? Then MAHLE is the right address for you.