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Sales professionals in Automotive manufacturing

Automotive sales leaders understand how production constraints, supplier relationships, and customer demands shape deal progression. Explore with them how they moved deals forward when timelines, pricing, or delivery terms created friction between what customers wanted and what manufacturing could deliver.

10 professionals10 companiesData retrieved September 27, 2026

Professionals to explore

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  1. Adolfo CASTRO

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director Sales & Business Development PSA Group & Toyota Europe for JIT & Structures Divisions · Lear Corporation

    Experience directing sales and business development for automotive OEM accounts including PSA Group and Toyota Europe at a motor vehicle manufacturing supplier.

  2. Alexandre Gantus

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Sales Director · Kongsberg Automotive

    Experience directing sales in the automotive industry with prior program and account management roles at OEM and Tier 1 automotive suppliers.

  3. Carsten Odenthal

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Sales Director · AUMOVIO

    Experience as a sales director leading global sales organizations and building OEM partnerships within the automotive manufacturing industry.

  4. Karl Mertz

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Sales and Business Development Director, Americas · OPmobility

    Experience directing sales and business development in the automotive manufacturing industry, including prior product line and customer business unit leadership at other suppliers.

  5. Laurent Curtil

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director, EV Business Development - Americas · Mersen

    Experience in automotive business development and sales leadership, including managing sales targets and business unit responsibilities within the automotive industry.

  6. Nate Iikubo

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director of Sales · Continental AG

    Experience directing sales for automotive supplier accounts, managing key OEM relationships and driving business development in the automotive manufacturing sector.

  7. Rebecca Marsack-Wangelin

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Executive Director Sales & Business Development · HI-LEX North America

    Experience as an executive director of sales and business development at an automotive parts manufacturing supplier, following prior sales director roles serving OEM accounts.

  8. Ross Soergel

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Senior Director Sales and Program Management - Tenneco NVH Solutions · Tenneco

    Experience directing sales and program management for an automotive parts manufacturer, including responsibility for platform profitability and customer negotiations.

  9. Steven Ross

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Director - Business Development · Roush

    Experience directing business development for automotive OEM and strategic accounts, focused on identifying and growing business segments within a motor vehicle manufacturing company.

  10. Tony Pistagnesi

    LinkedIn

    Experience: Executive Director - Sales - Stellantis · Dauch

    Experience as an executive director of sales for an automotive driveline and metal forming supplier, following roles in product engineering and business development.

Choose the right perspective

Look for candidates who closed deals in their own role and can describe the specific obstacles they encountered. Ask them to walk through a real deal—not a generic process—and explain which conversations or decisions actually moved it toward signature.

Questions to take into the conversation

  1. 01Tell me about a deal where the customer's timeline or requirements didn't match what your manufacturing could do. How did you handle that?
  2. 02When you were negotiating price or terms, what information from your production or supply chain did you use to justify your position?
  3. 03Walk me through a deal that stalled. What actually got it moving again—was it a change in your offer, the customer's situation, or something else?

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