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Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative - Georgetown, KY

Job in Georgetown, Scott County, Kentucky, 40324, USA
Listing for: Japan/America Society of Kentucky
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-01
Job specializations:
  • Business
    Business Development
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Bilingual Sales & Trade Representative - Georgetown, KY

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 sales experience (B2B sales) and are looking to further develop their career. This position requires business level Japanese and candidates are required to travel 25% of the time both within KY and to other states.

DOE and skills, this position’s pay range is between 45k-60k and includes a very comprehensive benefits package.

Your essential duties would be as follows:

  • 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. This includes 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, report review of sales, 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, materials management.
  • Must be proficient in MS Office - specifically MS Excel – formula and function.
  • All other duties as assigned.
  • Please consider the following qualifications:

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