Key account manager
We are now looking for a Key Account Manager to strengthen our team in China.
Job Purpose:
This should be responsible for Chemical Processing Units and Project sales in specified region, focus on energy and petrochemical, fine chemical business industry. Represent IPCO in front of customers as Key account manager, implement market development and sales activities to reach sales target.
Main Responsibilities
- Perform SWOT analysis for responsible territory& market in chemistry industry, collect information about competition, potential market volume, current market share and customers’ feedback.
- Aggressively exploit the responsible territory to identify new target customers and new sales opportunities.
- Full responsibility of handling projects from beginning of enquiry-> project follow up->final order, by support of engineering department.
- Plan and organize visits and sales activities to existing and potential customers with feedback timely.
- Actively promote the product range with emphasis on the priority products, collect customer’s needs, analyze the application and provide solution to satisfy customer with values.
- Prepare customer offers based on the "internal" offer from the engineering team.
- Handle the complaint from customers and coordinate with responsible after sales team to solve the problem.
- Take active part in projects through teamwork within the IPCO organization.
- Ensure prompt follow up of overdue accounts receivable with regular feedback.
- Participate in fairs and marketing events of importance for the region.
- Feedback customer and market demands.
- Negotiation and finalization of contract.
- Work closely with engineering team to ensure delivery the equipment as customer expectation.
- Follow up order processing and assistance to project management after order transfer to engineering & production with awareness of quality improvement and precision of delivery to meet customer' s expectation.
- Build, maintain, broaden and strengthen good relationship with customers and designing institutes, sensitive to potential business opportunities.
- Continuously improve job required competence, personality and behavior.
- Report timely and accurately
Your Profile
We value your passion for technology and your problem-solving mindset. You also have the ability to present alternative solutions and challenge "old reality's". You are a true team player with an outgoing personality and excellent communication skills to build trustworthy and long-lasting relationships. Your structured and analytical side is key in order to effectively shift between tasks and prioritize the most critical issues.
Required Competence
- Strong technical understanding, logic thinking is a must, as solution organizer and planner.
- Willing to take challenge on selling chemical units to big chemical groups, can work under high pressure of following several projects at same time.
- Good communicative and organizational skills.
- Strong mind on exploring new markets and customers.
- Excellent communication skills in both English and Mandarin.
- Willing to accept Frequent business travel in working days.
- Proactive, Self-motivated, flexible and good team player.
- Good skills with Microsoft tools.
- Good presentation skill and strong self-learning ability.
- Fluent English in written and verbal.
- Strong Negotiation skills and confidence.
- Prioritize tasks objective-oriented, knowledge of project management.
- Can read mechanical drawings and chemical process flow diagram (PFD).
- Good knowledge of mechanical manufacturing/ Chemical processing.
- Ability to work independently.
- Quick response and efficient working style.
- Passion of work.
Experience
- Sense of project hunting
- Work experience at least 3 years as technical sales in mechanical or chemical industry for capital equipment.
Education
- Bachelor's degree, chemical mechanism or chemical process background prefer.
Additional information
Start Date: ASAP
Location: China
For further information about the job, please contact Lucie Yang.
lucie.yang@ipco.com
- Department
- Sales
- Role
- Sales Engineer
- Locations
- China
About IPCO
IPCO is the industrial process solutions company that touches the lives of everyone, everywhere - from food to flooring, powder paint to paper, solar cells to semiconductors. We are a 650-strong global team who design, build and service innovative equipment and steel belts for businesses seeking to enable the green transition with sustainable, large-scale production.
Join a company that has been leading the way in industrial processing solutions since 1901 and develop a long-term, stimulating career, with plenty of opportunities to make your mark. You’ll work in an expert team with colleagues who have a passion for performance and a commitment to innovating for the future. And you’ll develop new skills and capabilities as you help to maximize our customers’ success.
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