At Materion, everyone is included, respected and offered opportunity to grow. Join us! Responsibilities + Achieve year on year increase in Sales within the Japan catchment. + Implement sales strategies, development business relationships, and deliver customer satisfaction. + Distil large amounts of complex information into the core basic issues and drive solutions + Management of large accounts in Japan and interacting with customer's technical engineers, procurement specialists, and management teams. + Teaming with resources at the Product Division and within the business unit is essential to achieve required results. Requirements + Minimum 15 years professional work experience + Minimum 10 years in a sales role with a track record of meeting or exceeding sales targets + Bachelor's degree in related field such as metal or inorganic chemistry (technical background is highly preferred) + Metal related product or inorganic chemical sales experience at least 10 years. Especially Defense and Electrofusion experiences are preferred. + Working experience with global teams – Asia and USA. + Strong understanding and knowledge of the customers and competitive landscape in the Defense, Electrofusion and Semiconductor. + Excellent communication and presentation skills + Language: Japanese, Business level English (written and spoken) Capabilities + Ability to think strategically and develop and execute a comprehensive account plan + Demonstrated skills in technical selling + Highly motivated with a positive, energized approach; eager to lead and drive improvement + Able to establish and cultivate cross functional relationships across a multi-site environment and engage these resources to support account plans + Strong communicator, collaborator and negotiator + Strong moral and ethical compass + Knowledge of CRM (Sugar) and SAP preferred + Travel up to 40% Materion Corporation and its subsidiaries (the “Company”) is an equal employment opportunity employer. It is the Company’s policy to not unlawfully discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also the Company’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. The information collected by this application is solely to determine suitability for employment, verify identity and maintain employment statistics on applicants. Please provide complete information. An incomplete application may affect your consideration for employment.