Account Manager (EV & Emerging Mobility)

Location: Plymouth, MI, United States; approximately 25% travel to customer and company locations.

Company

hirify.global operates within the Freudenberg Group and provides automotive manufacturing and mobility-related solutions.

What you will do

• Own commercial relationships with assigned automotive OEM accounts and serve as the primary customer interface across purchasing, engineering, program management, quality, manufacturing, and leadership.
• Develop and execute account plans to protect existing business, identify opportunities, expand profitable revenue, and anticipate customer, technology, and market requirements.
• Lead RFQs, pricing strategies, commercial negotiations, cost-recovery activities, proposals, and contract discussions while managing profitability and commercial risk.
• Coordinate engineering, program management, operations, quality, supply chain, finance, and other functions to accelerate decisions, resolve escalations, manage risks, and deliver commitments.
• Support automotive programs across sourcing, development, launch, production, and ongoing commercial management.
• Identify new-business and whitespace opportunities by understanding customer technology roadmaps, future vehicle programs, manufacturing strategies, sourcing direction, and emerging needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Manufacturing, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in automotive account management, technical sales, business development, or commercial roles supporting fast-paced customers such as EV manufacturers, automotive start-ups, high-growth OEMs, or traditional OEM programs with accelerated development and sourcing timelines.
• Experience managing complex OEM relationships, including RFQs, pricing, negotiations, account profitability, commercial issues, and new-business development.
• Ability to work in high-velocity environments with changing priorities, aggressive timelines, evolving requirements, limited information, and high individual ownership and accountability.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills and ability to influence engineering, program management, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, finance, and executive stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience with automotive program development and launch cycles, strong commercial and analytical capabilities, and willingness to travel approximately 25% to customer and company locations.
• Experience within or directly supporting high-growth, technology-driven automotive organizations, with success in fast-changing, entrepreneurial environments requiring speed, adaptability, ownership, and execution.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment within the Freudenberg Group.
• Equal opportunity employment with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.