Job Description
<Job Description>
■Customer relationship building (acquisition & maintenance)
- Maintain and improve the relationships with our worldwide key accounts.
- Develop effective sales strategies and present them to management.
- Follow, meet, and exceed agreed sales targets and report the results.
- Perform regular customer visits where you will be travelling around 70-80% of your working time.
■Business development
- Find or create new opportunities, not limited, but mainly in the automotive market
- Identify and discuss mutual benefits for our customers and our company where we extend our role as distributors by offering several value-added services that make our customers’ lives easier and more profitable
- Advise higher management about business opportunities and possible supply chains that can be set up to improve or extend our existing business or create new business.
■Oversee the quotation process
- Support the quotation process, handled by the inside sales department, between the supplier and the customer to meet their demands and provide them with continuous support.
- Identify key selling points that can increase the win rate.
- Support the Sales and Operations departments
- Perform troubleshooting and find solutions for the ever-changing customers’ needs
- Research and communicate new products that can be added to the company’s portfolio.
■Customer Service
- Provide excellent customer service, common for Japanese companies, in order to ensure recurring and increasing sales
- Other duties assigned by the Japanese Manager
Job Requirement
<Necessary Skill / Experience >
- At least 2 years of sales experience in the automotive industry
- Conversational high English (required TOEIC at least 750) to communicate with foreign suppliers
<Preferable Skill / Experience>
- Working Experience in a Japanese Company
- Having experience as a supervisor or Management