Business Development Specialist

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Company: Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. (TAI)

We firmly believe that our employees drive the success of the company! With success in mind as the ultimate goal, we strive to create and provide an environment that offers challenging, stimulating and financially rewarding opportunities. We are looking for The Right One to join our team!

Are you experienced, flexible and self-motivated? Are you skilled and energized by collaboration and continuous improvement? Do you enjoy a challenging and vibrant work environment?

If this sounds like you, you may be The Right One! Please continue on to learn more about this opportunity. Don’t forget to take a look at our comprehensive benefits!

SUMMARY
To use strong and experiential marketing and new business development skills in order to lead & direct assigned projects. (Factory automation, New technology, Carbon neutral related).

ESSENTIAL DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take a lead on new business development on factory automation, new technology, and carbon neutral related business activities.
• Plans and conducts assignments generally involving the larger and more important projects.
• Working directly with customers to achieve automation and Kaizen activities including introducing new technologies.
• May act in liaison capacity with other departments, divisions and organizations.
• Lead in generating or adapting equipment technology to serve user needs along-side vendors or partners.
• Lead in troubleshooting determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Lead analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design.
• Cost analysis and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Applies comprehensive knowledge to complete significant assignments.
• Other duties may be assigned.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

• A minimum of a four-year degree and more than 1-3 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations in English and Japanese. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals in English and Japanese. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public in both Japanese and English.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary with Bonus Opportunities
• Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits (Low Premiums!)
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Disability and Life Insurance
• 401(k) with Company Contribution
• Educational Tuition Reimbursement

Flexible Work Arrangement

Consistent with the Company’s Flexible Work Arrangement* policy, an essential function of an on-site/office-based position requires an employee to perform a regular portion of their duties at a Company facility. In person collaboration is a critical component of your job and vitally important to innovation, all of which can only be accomplished working on site. Working in this manner is consistent with the Company’s philosophy of “kaizen,” as well as facilitates important team interactions, enhances learning and development, and supports relationship building. These functions are critical to our business operations and consistent with the Company’s value of “genchi, genbutsu, genjitsu” to see and understand where work is done.

If your role is as a member of management, you will use in person work time to train, develop and motivate employees. Further, through observation and assessment of processes, you will identify opportunities to enhance employee effectiveness and productivity.

*A flexible work arrangement is dependent on the nature, scope, essential job functions, requirements, and location of the position.

Our company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer! It is the policy and commitment of the company to maintain a work environment that provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all its employees and applicants. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital/domestic partner status, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other applicable lawfully protected basis. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

We seek to employ individuals qualified for a position by virtue of job-related educational standards, training, experience, and personal qualifications.