Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative - Georgetown, KY

Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative - Georgetown, KY

Please send your most recent resume to

A Japanese Automotive company is seeking a Japanese-English Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative to join their Georgetown, KY location.

This is a great opportunity for bilingual candidates who have at least 1 year of B2B sales experience and are looking to further develop their career.

This position requires business-level Japanese and requires travel up to 25% within Kentucky and to other states.

DOE, pay range $45,000 - $60,000 and includes a comprehensive benefits package.

• Liaise between product development, sourcing, supply chain management, vendors, shipping & receiving and operations for new products starting production and changes to products in production.
• Manage detailed launch plan on all new major projects, including product definition delivery, launch timeline, and material readiness as needed.
• Manage product change processes and initiate and coordinate engineering changes and product closeout.
• Generate sales bids, cost summaries, review of sales reports, and create forecast reports.
• Create and extend quotations for new business projects.
• Visit various client sites to establish relationships for future sales bids/projects.
• Establish and apply purchase contract terms, create purchase orders and invoices.
• Manage and oversee various shipments for projects.
• Manage and oversee A/R and A/P reports assigned to project.
• Assist with the Import/Export customer clearance process, assign HS codes.
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities, monitor and summarize project progress.
• Develop project scopes and objectives with project members to ensure on-time completion.
• Measure project performance using appropriate tools and techniques.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Maintain an open schedule to communicate with Japan vendors.
• Must have knowledge of basic engineering concepts, business management, account management, and materials management.
• Must be proficient in MS Office – specifically MS Excel – formulas and functions.
• All other duties as assigned.

• Business sales experience and Japanese/English speaking.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Management and/or related field and a minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in an industrial/manufacturing environment required (3 years of experience preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – English and Japanese.
• Knowledge of manufacturing processes is a plus but not required.
• Must be able to travel and work at customer sites – up to 25%.
• Must be able to travel out of state.