Career Opportunities: Business Development Manager (974) By creating bearings and solutions for everything from industrial applications to vehicles, SKF plays an essential role in our everyday lives. In Q4 2026, SKF intends to spin off its Automotive business and list it as a separate company under the name of SKF Vertevo. A company created to support the future of the automotive market, and to co-drive the future of mobility faster.
This role will be a part of that new company. Would you like to join us, and move people further?
Business Development Manager: Wheel End +
SKF Automotive Business
Within the Automotive Business Line Wheel End, we are looking for a proactive, highly energetic person to support and boost the growth of SKF´s automotive wide technical product and solution portfolio around our various Wheel End application offerings.
The candidate will both drive and support new business opportunities, securing profitable and sustainable new business growth by identifying, evaluating and pursuing market opportunities that will contribute to the short and long-term business goals, in line with our global strategy.
The candidate will also play a key role in activities to secure profitability of our current product portfolio, interacting with key stakeholders such as Controlling, Sales, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Engineering and Logistics, especially in the Puebla factory.
Key responsibilities (or What you can expect in the role)
Managing Business opportunities and RFQs, incl project risk analysis, pricing strategy and interactive communication with our frontline teams
Taking an active ownership of cross functional business opportunities filtering reviews
As an extended part of Puebla factory team, driving Business Opportunities as Project Manager from initial quotation until customer nomination according to ETO process with a handover to Customer Project Management at BG B stage and further support until successful SOP by monitoring & guidance of the project




Responsible for securing profit on new businesses by performing cost and business validation calculations.
Creating and presenting relevant business data and reports.
Be part of the Product and strategy definition by refining the general market strategy for products and applications based on local market requirements.
Portfolio Management of Current Products : develop and improve the profitability of our current wheel end business portfolio together with Product Lines, Manufacturing, Controlling and Sales, securing the execution of our Portfolio Management Roadmap and profitability recovery plans on a regular basis.
Defining targets and key items for integrated Cost Reduction (ICR) initiatives based on business needs towards Purchasing organization.
Supporting NMOs and technical innovation developments with market analysis and
Business Case creations, value proposition and cost/price analysis
Support in collecting intelligence to derive market prices for target cost settings regarding relevant product families.
Support the benchmarking process, identifying products and applications of interest and deriving action plans to strive for cost excellence (competitiveness)
Support with consolidated information concerning future growth of different product lines and regions for the decision-making process regarding investments for the manufacturing footprint and production capacity and driving localization projects together with operations and manufacturing.
Requirements (or We expect you to have/be)
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business or finance




Minimum of 5 years’ experience in engineering role, manufacturing, controlling, business development or sales
Self-driven with strong result-oriented mindset
Great Team spirit and excellent leadership skills, being able to drive activities in a transversal and multi-cultural environment.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, fluent in Spanish and English
Good planning and problem-solving skills and capability to moderate conflicts of interests
Demonstrated achievements in past job roles
Good knowledge in data management, efficient skills in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Power BI, etc…)
Interest, knowledge and curiosity in digitalization to develop and adopt new tools
Willingness to travel
You will enjoy working here if you(are/have)
someone who enjoys building strong cross-functional relationships and turning market opportunities into practical business results. You are curious, collaborative, and comfortable taking ownership in a fast-moving, multicultural environment. You bring positive energy, communicate clearly, and enjoy working with others to solve problems and move ideas forward.
If yo u want to go further this position will be located in Puebla, Mexico. Youwill report to Jonas Olsson, Business Lines & Product Manager, PV Business Development, who is located in Gothenburg, Sweden. For questionsregarding the recruitment process,please contactJulio Cesar Lopez at [email protected] . Please note that we do not accept applications via email.
If you want to know more about SKF Automotive business, please visit our webpage .
Transparency and fairness matter to us
At SKF, we see diversity in our workforce as an asset that supports better business results. We are committed to having a fair and inclusive recruitment process where all hiring decisions are based on objective, job-related criteria, ensuring equal opportunities for all candidates.

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