Assistant Manager-Sales-Intermediates

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Sales and account Management:

• Drive the business aiming to meet/exceed business targets (Profitability & Volumes) for respective customers in PAN India from industries like Pharma, agro, coatings, personal, Dyes & others
• Implementation of respective Strategic business unit strategy in country and identify and implement business or value growth for respective customers/territory
• New Business development: Identify and attract new customers, pursue new applications, and interact with corresponding process and product developers of the potential customers, leading to profitable future business
• Continuously increase market and competitor intelligence and update customers and competitor’s data (supply/demand)
• Effective credit control and working capital management at customer to meet financial targets for receivables, overdue & inventory management
• Carry out market studies/ projects for respective end industry /customers for identifying future opportunities
• Coordination with regional product management to drive the sales for respective strategic business unit & exchange the market intelligence
• Negotiate and close deals or contracts with customers by taking complete customer accountability & leveraging knowledge of entire product value chain, supply capabilities and competition
• Ensure business compliance according to BASF policy

Customer relationship management:

• Develop, align and execute mid- and long-term account plans
• Identify & translate market opportunities into business through cross BU cooperation & new working concepts / ideas
• To identify & develop differentiation strategies to improve competitive advantage by understanding customer needs, gathering & sharing of market & competitor information – Ensure value pricing whenever applicable
• Develop lasting customer relationships to identify business trends in and beyond the customer scope or respective portfolio
• Ensure high/wide customer contacts and regular visits to customers

Operational Tasks:

• Provide operational guidance and coordinate the relevant functional departments like customer service, supply chain, planning to ensure value creation and customer satisfaction
• Use of customer feedback (Net Promote Score) to continuously improve customer experience
• Accountable for Demand- and Sales Forecast and fulfilment supporting efficient planning of products and services to support production planning (return on assets) using tools like OMP DP and local merchandising business model
• To enhance work coherence, quality & efficiency by contributing actively to sales meetings, reporting and in developing customer training/communication materials for sales
• Ensure effective, open and speedy communications for faster decision making
• Ensure adherence to business initiatives /tools, e.g. Net prompter score/customer feedback, Customer Network/Key account management & Sustainability

Education:

BE-Chemical or MSC Chemistry; MBA would be preferred

Experience :

4-6 years of cross industry experience