Purpose of the position
Back Office EPC Sales Manager
Support the project at the EPC Back-Office location, interact with Valmet Sales office (at EPC main office where PO’s wil be placed), who provide contacts and strategy. Initiate the contacts, present Value Proposition, develop and build relationships, influence spec’s, AVL and compliance in favor of Valmet. Initiate and facilitate Customer Lunch & Learn / Seminar sessions ate EPC back office location.
Licensor Management:
Manage, “own”, lead, support and develop the selected Licensors internationally to establish Valmet’s accepted, approved, compliance and preferred position within the Licensor processes and specifications.
Early Phase Project Sales Management:
Manage, lead, support and develop the selected Early Phase Projects in order to obtain early information to establish a winning strategy as well as secure our Valmet position within the project from an Project AVL, specification compliance and contacts/relationship point of view.
Areas of responsibility
Selected Licensors, Back Office EPC’s & Early Phase Projects
Motivated selections will be made within the team on which Licensors, Back Office EPC’s and Early Phase Projects the focus will be, dedicated assignment will be carried out accordingly.
As a Back Office EPC Sales Manager:
- Interact with head of R&C and Re&G Industry Hub to review and prioritize the potential cases, decide the ones to focus on.
- Interact with Valmet Sales office being responsible for the main (purchasing) EPC.
Obtain project info, status, location, contacts and strategy.
Agree Back-Office EPC approach and actions. à Initiate agree activities.
- Contact, interact with the Back-Office EPC key persons, initiate meetings and visit them FtF.
- Present Value Proposition and Valmet global organization to support them in this project.
Promote In-House Engineering support.
- Organize Lunch & Learn and/or other seminars / sessions.
- When not known yet, obtain; Back-Office EPC role and organization, project AVL, requirement, specifications, scope and planning.
- Obtain list of potential Licensors and OEM’s.
- Review specifications and verify compliance.
- Influence Project requirements, specifications, compliance and AVL in favor of Valmet, personal contacts & FtF meetings are essential in this approach.
- Communicate with Valmet project team, report status, actions, planned activities and results.
As a Licensor Manager:
- Map & initiate the contacts and build the relationships with the key persons at the Licensor organization, internationally.
- Review / analyze & map our position within the Licensor for the different process technologies. Get copy of AVL with Valmet’s status.
- Know the process technologies from application, specification, solution selection and competition point of view
- Determine the Valmet potential (where not yet on the AVL) and work-out a strategy and required actions, discuss within the team and initiate the actions
- Organize Lunch & Learn and/or other seminars / sessions
- Build Value proposition and discuss with Licensor the Valmet potential, reach agreement of potential and agree actions.
- Interact with Industry Management, Product-Line and R&D when product developments are required to be on the AVL for the wanted applications / solutions.
Business case to be built to justify eventual development needs.
- Interact, communicate and roll-out Valmet status and plans with Sales organization, provide guidance on how to apply in Valmet’s benefit in all applicable business types (PRO/MRO/Service/VCA).
- Obtain & maintain installed base of licensed technologies and corresponding Valmet IB.
- Negotiate NDAs and Recommended supplier Agreements as needed.
- Measure and follow-up implementation and results
As a Early Phase Project Sales Manager for selected projects:
- Receive hand-over information & strategy from LEAD phase
- Contact and interact with the Early Phase EPC key persons, initiate meetings and visit them FtF.
- Present Value Proposition
- Organize Lunch & Learn and/or other seminars / sessions
- Obtain project AVL, requirement, specifications, scope and planning.
- Obtain list of potential Licensors and OEM’s.
- Review specifications and verify compliance.
- Build strategy that drives towards preferred position in the project building good foundation to be able to be successful in the FEED, BtB and Awarded phases
- Influence Early Phase Project requirements, specifications, compliance and AVL in favor of Valmet, personal contacts & FtF meetings are essential in this approach.
- Report status, actions, planned activities and results
- When project moves to the next phase, build and hand-over with support of the project hand-over document.
KPI’s
- Back Office EPC Sales Manager
Back-office EPC contacts established, visited, Value Proposition presented, L&L / Seminar planned and carried-out. Valved on AVL as accepted / approved supplier for focused scope.
Potential Licensor + OEM list obtained.
- Licensor Management:
New AVL listings / process technology approvals. New products in existing approved process.
- Early Phase Project Management:
Key contact relationships established & FtF visits took place, Valmet on the Project AVL, Valmet solutions comply with the project specifications and/or alternatives are accepted by the EPC, potential Licensor + OEM list obtained, project & product strategy in place.
Interaction network – internal
- Global & local project sales
- End User (Key) Account Management
- Industry management
- Product lines / R&D
- Project Quotation team & Project Quotation Management team
Interaction network – external
- Customer contacts related to the selected project / licensors
- Non- customer (sales related) project stakeholders like DCS suppliers, non-Valmet (complementary) product suppliers, etc.
Basic requirements of the position
- Technical education, Bachelor degree as a minimum
- Commercial experience / understanding / feeling, understand customer drivers, the related industry market, EPC business & Valmet related strategy
- Valve knowledge is a pre
- Good/Excellent English language skills, verbal & reading/writing
- Open social attitude enabling multi cultural interactions externally with customers and internally within Valmet own organization
- Leadership skills
- Open minded and creative thinking
- Self confident and able to work: -in a team, -lead a team, -as well as work self-dependent based on given tasks & targets
- International traveling
If this opportunity sounds like a fit for you please send your application via Valmet career page. The position will be based in the Valmet India office (Chennai).
When everything works together
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