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About the Role
Lead Material Bank’s expansion into the global mobility interiors market by building strategic partnerships with leading brands across automotive, aviation, and marine. Establish a new vertical leveraging deep industry expertise, trusted relationships, and commercial acumen.
Responsibilities
- Build Material Bank’s founding portfolio of mobility interior brand partners across automotive, aviation, and marine.
- Own the full business development lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and developing relationships through negotiation and partnership execution.
- Represent Material Bank at industry trade shows, conferences, and customer events, building awareness and establishing credibility within the mobility interiors community.
- Develop trusted relationships with executives, commercial leaders, designers, specification teams, and decision-makers across leading manufacturers and suppliers.
- Lead consultative business conversations that demonstrate how Material Bank creates value through material discovery, digital sampling, specification tools, and market insights.
- Partner closely with Product, Catalog, Marketing, and Leadership to shape Material Bank’s strategy for the mobility sector, bringing customer and market insights back into the business.
- Identify market opportunities, competitive trends, and emerging technologies that influence the future of mobility interiors.
- Serve as a trusted industry expert, helping establish Material Bank as the leading platform for mobility material discovery.
Requirements
- 15+ years of experience within the mobility interiors industry, ideally in automotive, aviation, marine, or a related materials manufacturing environment.
- Deep knowledge of the European mobility market, with an established network of manufacturers, suppliers, OEMs, and industry leaders.
- A proven ability to build trusted relationships and influence senior executives through credibility, expertise, and a consultative approach.
- Strong commercial instincts with experience developing new business and closing strategic partnerships.
- An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build a business, create opportunities, and operate effectively with a high degree of autonomy.
- Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, with confidence engaging customers, partners, and industry leaders.
- Experience representing organizations at industry events and trade shows.
- Highly self-motivated, resourceful, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Willingness to travel extensively (approximately 75%) throughout Europe and North America.
- A passion for innovation and the future of mobility design.
Skills
- Mobility interiors industry expertise
- European mobility market knowledge
- Relationship building
- Executive influence
- Consultative approach
- Commercial acumen
- Business development
- Strategic partnership negotiation
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Autonomy
- Communication skills
- Executive presence
- Industry event representation
- Self-motivation
- Resourcefulness
- Adaptability
- Passion for innovation
Location
- Europe-based
Work Type
- Extensive international travel (approximately 80–90%)
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry, operating in 37 countries.
- The platform has become the standard for design professionals globally, connecting designers with materials from leading brands.
- Material Bank is the fastest and most powerful way for design professionals to search, sample, and specify materials.
- Material Bank connects design professionals to hundreds of manufacturers through facilitating brand discovery, sales rep engagement, and material sampling.
- The company's powerful material database and proprietary robotic distribution facility allow members to order samples for free overnight delivery.
- Founded in 2018, Material Bank has transformed the Architecture and Design industry in the United States and is rapidly expanding to Europe with regional headquarters in Paris and offices in London and Stuttgart.
- Candidates joining Material Bank in Europe have the unique opportunity to define, build, and shape the European business.
Equal Opportunity
- Material Bank is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
- We value diversity, and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, veteran or disability status or other status protected under any applicable federal, state or local law.