30 Automotive Intern jobs in Saudi Arabia
B2B Sales Representative (Automotive & Automotive Maintenance)
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Company offering the services for color change, renew the color, and body works for all kind of cars
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B2B Sales Representative (Automotive & Automotive Maintenance)
Location: Eastern Province (Al Khobar, Dammam & Surrounding Areas), Saudi Arabia
Nationality Preferred: Egyptian
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced **B2B Sales Representative** with a strong background in sales, particularly within the **automotive and contracting maintenance industry**. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in the **Saudi market**, specifically in the **Eastern Province (Al Khobar, Dammam, and surrounding areas)**. The role involves building and maintaining client relationships, driving sales growth, and promoting our products/services to businesses.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities within the “automotive, and automotive maintenance sectors”.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with corporate clients, contractors, and maintenance companies.
- Understand client needs and propose tailored solutions to meet their requirements.
- Achieve and exceed sales targets through effective negotiation and closing strategies.
- Prepare sales proposals, contracts, and presentations for potential clients.
- Conduct market research to stay updated on industry trends and competitor activities.
- Provide after-sales support to ensure customer satisfaction and repeat business.
- Collaborate with the marketing and operations teams to align sales strategies.
Qualifications
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 3-5 years of B2B sales experience, preferably in “automotive, automotive maintenance services”.
- Proven experience in the Saudi market, especially in the “Eastern Province (Al Khobar/Dammam)”.
- Strong negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- “Fluent in English and Arabic” (written and spoken).
- Self-motivated, target-driven, and able to work independently.
- Valid Saudi driving license is a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive salary + commission structure.
- Opportunity to work with leading industry clients.
- Career growth and professional development.
Interested candidates meeting the above criteria are encouraged to apply with their updated CV.
How to Apply:
((emailprotected)/0570-975459)
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Automotive Maintenance Technician
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Bridgestone Retail Operations (BSRO) is part of Bridgestone Americas and employs over 22,000 teammates in North America. BSRO operates more than 2,200 company-owned stores, including Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tires Plus and Wheel Works locations. With locations across North America and more than $3 billion in tire and auto service sales, Bridgestone Retail Operations is the right place to build a career. We start by offering each teammate more than just competitive pay. We provide formal training, performance incentives, paid vacation and holidays, competitive healthcare packages for full-time and part-time employees, and a 401k plan to help build towards your future. We believe in championing all perspectives, individuals and teams because we understand the importance of seeing the world and our business through many different lenses
#J-18808-LjbffrAutomotive Aftersales Manager
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We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused After-Sales Manager to lead our after-sales operations, ensuring outstanding service delivery, customer satisfaction, and revenue growth through service, parts, and warranty operations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automotive services and team management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee daily operations of the service department, parts department, and customer support.
- Develop and implement after-sales strategies to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.
- Monitor and optimize service workflow, technician productivity, and turnaround time.
- Set and achieve performance targets including revenue, profit margins, and customer satisfaction scores (CSI).
- Handle escalated customer complaints and resolve issues promptly.
- Manage warranty processes and ensure compliance with manufacturer guidelines.
- Collaborate with the sales department to provide a seamless customer experience.
- Monitor parts inventory, ordering efficiency, and cost control.
- Recruit, train, and mentor service advisors, technicians, and parts staff.
- Prepare regular reports on department performance, KPIs, and areas for improvement.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field (preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of experience in automotive after-sales or service management.
- Strong knowledge of vehicle service operations, parts, and warranty handling.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Strong communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to analyze data and make strategic decisions.
- Proficiency in using dealership management systems (DMS) and MS Office.
Skills
Preferred Skills:
- OEM dealership experience is a plus.
- Certification in Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) or similar is an advantage.
- Multilingual abilities (especially Arabic or local language) may be beneficial.
Freelance Auditor - Automotive, IATF
Posted 12 days ago
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Industry: Automotive
Standards: IATF 16949:2016
Key Responsibilities:
- Supplier Development
- New Supplier Assessments
- OEM Type Experience
We offer attractive, competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, 401k, short-term disability, AD&D, tuition reimbursement, and more. If you take pride in your work and are committed to personal and professional success, let's talk. Please visit to learn more.
Zobility is RGBSI's workforce management and staffing division. RGBSI is a multi-national corporation headquartered in Troy, MI with branches throughout the USA, Canada, Germany, and India.
#J-18808-LjbffrSolutions Architect for Automotive
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Solutions Architect for Automotive to help our partners (companies like Mercedes, Ford, GM, Elektrobit, Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, Tata and the like) and prospects understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers.
Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack, from kernel to desktop, from cloud to embedded. And we continue to expand our range of offerings to bring our security, management and developer experience to the smallest Linux environments and devices. Our team is also interested in business problems - building things reliably, efficiently and cost-effectively, and we have to learn to speak the language of our customers and their industries.
Beyond an expected Automotive expertise, this career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, firmware and embedded software development methodologies. They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs. Competitive, business-focused technologists at heart, they are also dedicated team players that take pride in team and company wins.
We often say that our field engineers have 'the hardest job at Canonical' because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests, and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true.
Location : This is a home-based role, we are hiring worldwide.
What your day will look like
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology
- Liaise with other Canonical's experts (mastering the Cloud, Kubernetes, Security or Safety, etc) to aggregate our collective knowledge into comprehensive solutions for our prospective clients
- Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux, including demos and PoCs
- Convey market requirements to key stakeholders in our organization, and sometimes participate to the development or refining of generic solutions to unlock market potential
- Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical
What we are looking for in you
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Solid embedded Linux experience - Yocto or RTOS
- Fluency in Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs
- Result-oriented, ability to multi-task
- A personal drive to meet commitments
- An humble learner and quick study
- Relevant experience in the Automotive industry
- Albeit many projects can be done remotely, the successful candidate will be willing to travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
- Experience with ISO26262 and/or ISO21434
- Experience with customer engagements
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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#J-18808-LjbffrSolutions Architect for Automotive
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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1000+ colleagues in 70+ countries and very few roles based in offices. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.
The company is founder led, profitable and growing. We are hiring a Solutions Architect for Automotive to help our partners (companies like Mercedes, Ford, GM, Elektrobit, Intel, Nvidia, Google, Dell, HP, Accenture, Tata and the like) and prospects understand and embrace our open source platform for themselves and their customers.
Our worldwide field engineering team apply expert insights to real-world customer problems, enabling the enterprise adoption of Ubuntu, OpenStack, Kubernetes, AI/MLOps and a wide range of associated technologies. We are experts in the whole open source stack, from kernel to desktop, from cloud to embedded. And we continue to expand our range of offerings to bring our security, management and developer experience to the smallest Linux environments and devices. Our team is also interested in business problems - building things reliably, efficiently and cost-effectively, and we have to learn to speak the language of our customers and their industries.
Beyond an expected Automotive expertise, this career opportunity requires a unique blend of skills. Successful candidates will know Linux well and be proficient coders and scripters. They will have experience of low-level Linux boot, BIOS, firmware and embedded software development methodologies. They also enjoy the pace of change and diversity of client engagements with driven and ambitious technology entrepreneurs. Competitive, business-focused technologists at heart, they are also dedicated team players that take pride in team and company wins.
We often say that our field engineers have 'the hardest job at Canonical' because customers can ask about any aspect of our solutions and products and expect a thoughtful, well-informed answer. We always want to do the best thing for our partners and customers, regardless of our company interests, and field engineers are the people we trust to ensure that is true.
Location : This is a home-based role, we are hiring worldwide.
What your day will look like
- Engage customers during presales to gather requirements and explain our technology
- Liaise with other Canonical's experts (mastering the Cloud, Kubernetes, Security or Safety, etc) to aggregate our collective knowledge into comprehensive solutions for our prospective clients
- Participate to the delivery of select projects related to Embedded Linux, including demos and PoCs
- Convey market requirements to key stakeholders in our organization, and sometimes participate to the development or refining of generic solutions to unlock market potential
- Be both a customer advocate and a trusted advisor to Canonical
What we are looking for in you
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Extensive Linux experience - Debian or Ubuntu preferred
- Solid embedded Linux experience - Yocto or RTOS
- Fluency in Golang, Python, C, C++, or Rust
- Professional written and spoken English in addition to the local language
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Interest in customer-facing engagement, including pitching, demonstrating and understanding customer environment and needs
- Result-oriented, ability to multi-task
- A personal drive to meet commitments
- An humble learner and quick study
- Relevant experience in the Automotive industry
- Albeit many projects can be done remotely, the successful candidate will be willing to travel up to 30% of the time for customer meetings, company events, and conferences
- Experience with ISO26262 and/or ISO21434
- Experience with customer engagements
We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognise outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus. We provide all team members with additional benefits, which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.
- Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person - we've been working remotely since 2004!
- Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
- Annual compensation review
- Recognition rewards
- Annual holiday leave
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues from your team and others
- Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
Canonical is a pioneering tech firm that is at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open source projects and the platform for AI, IoT and the cloud, we are changing the world on a daily basis. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence - in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do.
Canonical has been a remote-first company since its inception in 2004. Work at Canonical is a step into the future, and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game. Canonical provides a unique window into the world of 21st-century digital business.
Canonical is an equal opportunity employer
We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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- Seniority level Entry level
- Employment type Full-time
- Job function Engineering and Information Technology
- Industries Software Development
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Technical Customer Success Manager - Automotive
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What's the role?
The Team :
We are a group of self-motivated individuals who work closely with our customers, to provide support through the entire customer journey. From pre-sales to onboarding to adoption and expansion, we are the Voice of the Customer. Our primary objectives are to Engage, Adopt, Expand, and Retain relationships with our customers and help bring their visions to reality. We foster a highly collaborative environment working closely with our Customers, Engineering, Product Management etc. to help build the best location services available in the market today. It’s highly rewarding when we get to see much of our work out in the real world in location-based applications and services used in the everyday. If this sounds like something you want to do, then we’d love to talk with you.
The Role :
As a Technical Customer Succes Manager , you will be responsible for the successful delivery, adoption, and ongoing engagement of HERE’s technology solutions to customers and ensuring these solutions continue to be successful for the customer over time. You’ll oversee day-to-day customer relationships as well as actively participate in retaining and growing those relationships.
The role will focus on key and strategic accounts in Automotive, utilizing HERE products and services.
Main Responsibilities :
- Own the overall success of the account (high-touch engagement), develop and executive a Success Plan to help Customers maximize the value from utilizing HERE products / services, with a laser focus on customer centricity.
- Drive complex, strategic and large-scale customer programs (large Automotive OEM)
- Collaborate with stakeholders and manage cross-functionally to ensure successful customer delivery (product launches, POC, projects,
- Proactively identify and manage risks, and project escalations from the client and work with the Project / Program Managers to resolution, driving projects to successful completion
- Be the Voice of the Customer for a broad portfolio of products and services by providing regular feedback to Product and Sales, as well as proactively drive executive-level review and decision making as needed
- Own customer journey, drive adoption, expansion of customer footprint with HERE products and services, drive to provide value to increase customer retention & advocacy.
- Consult clients on potential opportunities to improve their Navigation, IoT and LBS solutions, in conjunction with HERE Sales teams
- Acts as the main technical customer interface and ensure customer requirements are understood across internal divisions
- Identify gaps in methodologies and / or processes for any part of the customer lifecycle and drive change for continuous improvement
- Travel up to 25%, both domestic and international, to meet customers and suppliers as needed
Who are you?
This role is open to Saudi nationals only , in line with local labor regulations and our commitment to Saudization. We’re proud to support Vision 2030 by prioritizing local talent and helping grow opportunities for Saudi professionals.
This role requires a high level of expertise in program management and proactive relationship building, leadership, technical expertise, and commercial awareness, as well as the ability to influence positive outcomes, along with most of the following :
As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a background verification process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a background verification. - #LI-MS1
#J-18808-LjbffrTechnical Customer Success Manager - Automotive
Posted 12 days ago
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The Team:
We are a group of self-motivated individuals who work closely with our customers, to provide support through the entire customer journey. From pre-sales to onboarding to adoption and expansion, we are the Voice of the Customer. Our primary objectives are to Engage, Adopt, Expand, and Retain relationships with our customers and help bring their visions to reality. We foster a highly collaborative environment working closely with our Customers, Engineering, Product Management etc. to help build the best location services available in the market today. It’s highly rewarding when we get to see much of our work out in the real world in location-based applications and services used in the everyday. If this sounds like something you want to do, then we’d love to talk with you.
The Role:
As a Technical Customer Succes Manager , you will be responsible for the successful delivery, adoption, and ongoing engagement of HERE’s technology solutions to customers and ensuring these solutions continue to be successful for the customer over time. You’ll oversee day-to-day customer relationships as well as actively participate in retaining and growing those relationships.
The role will focus on key and strategic accounts in Automotive, utilizing HERE products and services.
Main Responsibilities:
- Own the overall success of the account (high-touch engagement), develop and executive a Success Plan to help Customers maximize the value from utilizing HERE products / services, with a laser focus on customer centricity.
- Drive complex, strategic and large-scale customer programs (large Automotive OEM)
- Collaborate with stakeholders and manage cross-functionally to ensure successful customer delivery (product launches, POC, projects, etc.)
- Proactively identify and manage risks, and project escalations from the client and work with the Project / Program Managers to resolution, driving projects to successful completion
- Be the Voice of the Customer for a broad portfolio of products and services by providing regular feedback to Product and Sales, as well as proactively drive executive-level review and decision making as needed
- Own customer journey, drive adoption, expansion of customer footprint with HERE products and services, drive to provide value to increase customer retention & advocacy.
- Consult clients on potential opportunities to improve their Navigation, IoT and LBS solutions, in conjunction with HERE Sales teams
- Acts as the main technical customer interface and ensure customer requirements are understood across internal divisions
- Identify gaps in methodologies and/or processes for any part of the customer lifecycle and drive change for continuous improvement
- Travel up to 25%, both domestic and international, to meet customers and suppliers as needed
This role is open to Saudi nationals only , in line with local labor regulations and our commitment to Saudization. We’re proud to support Vision 2030 by prioritizing local talent and helping grow opportunities for Saudi professionals.
This role requires a high level of expertise in program management and proactive relationship building, leadership, technical expertise, and commercial awareness, as well as the ability to influence positive outcomes, along with most of the following:
- 5-10 years of technical experience (content / software / engineering) with a pre-sales track record or an equivalent technically oriented management function
- Experience in Customer Success and strong Technical Account Management skills working with large enterprise customers. Experience in all aspects of program management (execution and delivery) involving large cross-functional teams.
- A strong sense of ownership of the customer account & ensure a trusted partnership is established with the customer.
- Excellent consultative, advisory, organizational skills with an aptitude for strategic thinking, proactive risk management and problem solving
- Sound understanding of Automotive infotainment, ADAS, in-vehicle and cloud solutions
- Strong leadership & communication skills, with ability to influence people outside of one’s own managerial matrix and a track record of solid cross-functional stakeholder management and collaboration skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English, and inter-cultural work experience; local language skills are a plus
- Graduate bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or an equivalent technical field preferred. PMI PMP certification (or equivalent) is a plus.
As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a background verification process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of a background verification. - #LI-MS1
Who are we?HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes – from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.
At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people’s lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.
#J-18808-LjbffrProduction Manager (Automotive Filter division)
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A leading manufacturer & supplier of Oil, Air, Fuel, Hydraulic Transmission, Coolant Filters & Industrial Products like: Hilliard, Mueller and Switch filtration located in Dammam - KSA required to hire the following position:
Job Title: Production Manager (Automotive Filter division)
Duties & Responsibilities of Production Manager
- Responsible for day – to – day production activities, overseeing the spin-on line, Air & Cartridge line, poly amide filter line, press shop and the workshop.
- Responsible for the preparation of production plans for air/Cartridge, Toyota filters, and Spin-on filters and delivery commitment at a lower cost, and all relevant daily, weekly & monthly production reports.
- Co-ordinate with other factories for synchronization of production operation plans and requirements.
- Responsible for the determination of filter bill of materials and computation of actual product man-hour costing.
- Co-ordinate with maintenance department for the repair of automatic and manual Hydraulic presses and eccentric presses.
- Co-ordinate development of HDFD Air Filter.
- Takes care of the factory facilities and premises including the areas of production, Warehouse & administrative building.
- Facilitate the holding of the weekly regular production meetings as well as special production meetings to plan, organize and strategize efforts into a common goal.
- Handles special projects as may be directed by the head of operations.
- Participate in technical discussions for new machinery of the industrial/equipment/tool installations, utilities, infrastructures, etc., as may be directed by the head of operations.
Arabic - Native / Mother Tongue
English - Very Good
- Own a Car
- Have Driving License
- Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering
- Minimum 5 years in production management of Automotive Filter industry
- Candidates should have exposure to DIE DESIGNING, DIE IMPROVEMENTS and TOOL & DIE MAKING
- Very good command in English is a must.