Company Overview

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.

Sales, Marketing & Product Management

This role is responsible for managing transit and intercity mileage accounts, including but not limited to, new and current sales and customer relations, inventory management, collections, scrap and retread disposition, and removal. The Field Supervisor oversees account maintenance and supervision of Bus Technicians and Work Leaders. The individual in this role also manages profit and loss statements and controls territory expenses, which include travel, service, and supplies at service accounts as needed. The role is accountable for the coordination and deployment of selected Solutions, in conjunction with customers and dealer partners, managing the onboarding of new solutions. The Field Supervisor reports directly to the Division Manager, Mileage Sales.

The geographical territory this role is responsible for is: Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.

Personnel Administration

• Interview and hire teammates for service and field positions.
• Train new teammates on mileage processes, removal codes for scrap and retreading, account management per Contract Terms and Yearly Physical Inventories, and tire-related technical requirements.
• Manage personnel at multiple locations, including maintenance of schedules, productivity, and shift coverage at each account.
• Act as the liaison between corporate office and hourly teammates, communicating impactful updates and support issue resolution.
• Ensure hourly teammates comply with requirements of transit and Bridgestone policy.
• Oversee proper payroll logging, reviews and submittals.

Operations

• Manage all aspects of tire operations to ensure maximum miles per tire.
• Perform Fleet Analyzer reports for performance of fleet.
• Partner with Sales Engineering on tire removal to ensure quality and consistency of technical recommendations and customer correspondence.
• Maintain servicing tire dealer relationship with to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Confirm customer adheres to contractual obligations identified in the Mileage Sales Agreement.
• Communicate with management on necessary aspects of territory and field reports.
• Effective travel management.
• Ensure Bridgestone is compliant on all aspects of government contracts. This includes, but is not limited to, the performance and quality of service, product quality and supply and credit and billing compliance.
• Coordinate with fleets and dealers when customers have roadside emergencies.
• Maintain activity in Salesforce.

Solutions Deployment

• Coordinate the deployment of Solutions to new customers within and outside of the current Mileage Sales book of business.
• Provide virtual and in-person support during the initial phase installation of products.
• Assist the selling teams, internal and dealer networks, with planning of Solutions setup and installs.
• Provide expertise to customers as they establish various Solutions within their fleet and engage with new product offerings.

Selling

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