Sales Manager (OEM’s)

THE JOB

Job Summary

Our client, a global manufacturer and supplier of Heating Element Technologies with more than 55 years in the marketplace and with over 10,000 employees worldwide, is seeking an Sales Leader who will work remotely be responsible for developing and executing the USA tactical and Strategic plan for the Automotive, Medical, Aerospace, Railway, HVAC, Oil and Gas, Refrigeration, Food Service, Domestic and Process Heating markets.
The ideal candidate will identify and develop key accounts in the market and will manage all aspects at a customer targeting maximum revenue, account penetration, and customer satisfaction. This includes developing the sales strategy, sales planning and relationship management, in addition to promotion activities or project management tasks. It will be the Sales Leader  task to recognize new opportunities/projects and increase the customer share, manage the project pipeline with cooperation from the company’s engineer teams, as well as ensure complying services and project realization for the customer.

Essential Job Functions

1. Relationship Management and Demand Creation
   • Continuously caring for a good trusting relationship between the customer and the company.
   • Stay in permanent direct contact (visits, email, phone) with the customer to ensure ongoing support and communication.
   • Promote the technologies and product portfolio at the customer.
   • Select and introduce (new) products and services, considering the customers’ needs.
   • Sell the value propositions of the company’s products and services.
   • Detect new opportunities and drive the project with cooperation from the company’s engineering teams.
   • Coordinate with internal customer service to serve the customer on time in terms of quotations, quality complaints, logistics, technical information, etc.
   • Engage and drive the organization to support and respond in timeframe & quality level that the customer expects (e.g. logistics, quality, etc.), and conscientious follow up on open issues and opportunities.
   • Identify market trends and needs for innovative technologies.
   • Interact proactively with other Sales Market Specialists to expand business at global target accounts.
   • Collaborate with global marketing department on developmental application for the Heating Elements market.
2. Strategic sales planning, in line with the overall company and business unit goals
   • Accomplishment sales revenue target.
   • Analyze the existing and potential customers.
   • Define and develop a sales strategy/plan.
   • Gain, correctly interpret, and apply to all kind of research results (markets, competition, technologies, trend), and support global projects and key accounts management.
3. Key Goals & Objectives/Measurements
   • Revenue growth, market share, profitability, customer penetration, customer satisfaction, and accounts receivables management.
4. Other Duties
   • Prepare and discuss offers and quotations as well as leading price and contract negotiations at customer.
   • Follow up on running opportunities/projects and on financial matters such as cash flow payments, and credit concessions, account receivables.
   • Internal reporting of projects and other business activities.
   • Stay updated regarding products, technologies and market trends and environmental changes.

THE CANDIDATE 

Qualifications & Requirements

• University degree (in industrial, mechanical, electrical or electro-mechanical engineering preferred).
• At least 5 years working experience in sales in the Heating Elements manufacturing industries.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Heating Elements customer portfolio for the Industrial and or OEM Market in the US.
• Experience developing strategies for increasing the market share in the US.
• Knowledge of market analysis of Heating Elements.
• Excellent interpersonal, consultative, and communication skills with the ability to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to build strong, credible relationships with multiple organizational functions (inside and outside of the company).
• Proactive, results oriented, flexible, and adaptable.
• Prominent level of written and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate in English.
• Flexibility in working days and travelling.