Marine Sales Manager
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for supporting the team to maximise profitability and sales opportunities by handling and developing business relationships for sales direct/B2B, handling local distributor partners/intermediaries/resellers, building on existing relationships and creating new business opportunities.
- Accountable for the execution of the territory sales strategy and responsible for delivering the financial performance targets through robust Joint Business Plans and driving/monitoring performance to ensure long term sustainable value for the company.
- Accountable for providing training on products and services, coaching third parties ensuring that salesforce is capable and equipped to serve as the voice for the GME business in front of customers.
- Executes the annual and multi-year strategic plans for territory sales, supporting the development of channel strategies to improve the whole value chain and ensure excellent standards and delivery to customer. Ensures delivery of financial targets through managing regional deliverables and price interventions as defined by our competitive strategy (Eg. Joint Business Plans (JBP), Distributor Offer, Upselling, Indirect sector focus for growth, SmartGains etc.)
- Conduct sales activities such as volume and margin analysis, supporting tender activity, leading resolution of customer operational issues and monitoring pricing performance integrity to enhance customer perception of value
- Develops, agrees (both internally and externally) and implements a Joint Business Plan with the distributor/channel partner, taking in-year and longer term views, providing permanent support and coaching in all areas of its contents including, sales performance, sales capability, customer offer deployment and HSSE and ethics and compliance etc
- Spends at least 60% of time in front of customers and distributors and is able to navigate conversations across a diverse contact map at all levels and through all functions of the customer to build strong relationships that build trust, generate powerful insights and enable business growth
- Makes joint customer calls with Platinum distributors to support development of capability and driving SmartGains framework implementation.
- Develops insight from customers, market sectors, competitors to provide customer/ market intelligence to enable brand distinctiveness and feed offer pipeline.
- Develops and regularly updates monthly detailed customer events, opportunities & vulnerabilities for the area business review which drives the LBM (Lubricants Business management)
- Understanding of marine/shipping, oil & gas market and global dynamics, trends, regulatory environment desirable
- B2B sales management experience with a track record of delivery of sales targets and performance
- Ability to develop, maintain and build new relationships with customers, OEMs and Industry bodies.
- Ability to present persuasive offers to senior level management within the customer’s business
- Leverages resources and own networks to achieve goals and objectives
- Ability to work across functions and gain support for the businesses in the channel
- Comfortable with using digital tools and applications to support the selling process and enhancing customer experience.
- A company culture where we respect our diverse and unified teams, where we are proud of our achievements and where fun and the attitude of giving back to our environment are highly valued
- Possibility to join our social communities and networks
- Learning opportunities and other development opportunities to craft your career path
- Life and health insurance, medical care package
- And many other benefits.