Your mission:
To plan Sales Strategic Plan (5 year plan) and Annual Operating Plan in order to deliver the company goals for long and short terms
Your tasks:
• Develop Sales Plan for long term (every five years) and short term (i.e annual Operating Plan) based on (a) market and competition analysis (b) internal strength – capabilities as well as weakness – opportunities (c) experience in lubricant markets where required
• Analyse market potential, competition and end-customer base in order to define the strategies of (a) product portfolio to win in niche markets (b) channel capability & development plan (c) internal capabilities including technical and services, in which added value to the product is consistently aligned in all plans
• Propose Marketing actions and supports from other departments to make the Sales Strategic plan feasible and achievable
• Develop internal capabilities to anticipate the business growth and changes including manpower, sales competencies and processes | system to enable the strategic or operating plan
• With the approval of General Director – to roll out the Sales strategic long term into annual Operating Plan with clear activities, timelines and measurements
• To plan and execute Sales activities to deliver Sales performance for short-term (monthly and quarterly) under annual Operating plan and Sales strategic plan (5 years plan)
• Plan annual budget based on the strategic sales plan every year and past experienced activities | spending
• Develop detailed actions plan by quarterly and monthly to deliver volume (top line) and ensure GM compliance
• Make decisions on customer incentives and align with Marketing initiatives | promotions to deliver monthly | quarterly and yearly sales performance
• Assess the channel capabilities and develop actions plan to bridge the gaps if any
Drive Sales Operation Excellence
• Ensure all Sales or company processes (and policies) are implemented by Sales Team. Remove internal barriers to ensure the compliance and prompt feed-back or actions
• Develop highly integrated place of pre-sales, field-trial tests, first-fill change-over, regular performance field checks and troubleshooting processes and execution with the technical and product development department as the primary driver for value addition
• Coordinate with other departments (Customer Service, Quality, Finance etc) to quickly settle all external feedback and complaints
• Seek opportunities to improve internal sales processes, improve efficiency of all sales activities or projects (spending, resources etc). Lead projects and process changes to improve the Sales efficiency
Build internal Sales Capability
• Improve Sales morale and retention rate by working with General Director and Human Resources to fix ad-hoc issues and build long term solutions for Sales CI
• Analysis the gaps of org and sales capability and develop the capability improvement plan with comprehensive internal and external training plan
• Ensure trainings (from internal and external parties) plan is delivered and the efficiency | capability improvement can be proved from the trainings"
Growth opportunity
Your Challenge
Will be given in interview
Promotion Opportunity
Will be given in interview
Minimum of 3-5 year experience in leading Sales Department in a MNC environment and similar industry with the same size or complexity
• B2B sales skills
• Presentation Skills
• Sales Planning & Distribution Management
• Team Management
• Build internal Sales Capability
• Drive Sales Operation Excellence"
"• Leading sales activities in the similar industry
• Capability to manage and develop Distributors and improve a complex channel & distributors network
• Developing and delivering a benefit-selling philosophy and operating under similar conditions
• Capability to approach, present and sell in a true B2B industrial environment
• A thorough understanding of B2B and B2C Sales Processes
• Lube background and education is preferred – but not a must
Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Commercial or Engineering fields