Sales Supervisor - Automotive（MJ000218）

The Sales Supervisor is to manage all sales activities in assigned customers/region including maintaining and developing existing business and identifying and acquiring new business/customers of refining services to achieve/exceed sales objectives and goals through both revenue & profit.

Sales Strategy & Planning

• Deeply understand the regional short-term to long-term business strategy, support the superior to develop and implement the sales strategy for assigned key customers to achieve the business goals & objectives, while proactively identifying potential new customers and exploring emerging application opportunities driven by market and technology trends to convert them into incremental sales results.
• Develop and implement the annual sales plan for assigned customers based on the regional sales strategy.
• Drive and take initiative to develop the strategic key account plan based on the coach and guidance.
• Establish and maintain good relationship with internal key stakeholders (e.g. marketing, product management, production, R&D, customer service, supply chain and other supporting functions), cooperate with the network to delivery solutions and achieve business growth.
• Ensure 100% compliance.

Distributor Management?

• Support to set-up the annual sales target for assigned distributors to in line with the strategy, while communicating brand value and delivering a compelling long-term version to inspire confidence, passion and strong commitment toward our partnership.
• Develop and execute action plans to enable customers partners and distributors to achieve sales targets.
• Develop and maintain strong business partner relationship with key distributors on comparable level.
• Manage the claim negotiations from and towards customers within defined parameters.
• Provide strong and solid insight to support the team to build-up the criteria and evaluation benchmark of distributor leveling.
• As the key stakeholder to complete the annual distributors evaluation, advice the appropriate distribution level based on business result, contribution and further business development plan.
• Monitor the performance of distributors closely, develop and implement the action plan to improve the underperformance distributors.

Key Account Management

• Develop and implement relevant customer strategy for assigned key accounts individually, with a global perspective to support overseas business expansion of Chinese automotive customers, collaborate with global counterparts across regions, and drive cross-border key account development.
• Create and update the qualified sales pipeline in CRM system timely.
• Generate customer visit report timely by using CRM tool and provide regular high/low lights as well as key customer and market intelligence. Take the documentation and sales funnel maintenance to identify the potential business growth opportunities with key accounts.
• Drive business growth with assigned key accounts, follow-up and execute customer-centricity account plan through new applications, new projects and new products to increase business share in target key customers.
• Deal with complaints as interface between internal stakeholders from function teams and external stakeholders (key customers, value chain partners, association, downstream players), give feedback and solutions to customer on complains and inquiries timely.
• Advice and implement the effective action plan to complete the key accounts’ annual contract negotiation for volume, price, and margin.

Business Development

• Build-up strong business acumen and market intelligence to identify, analyze and monitor potential business growth opportunities, understand competitive factors to support the business growth.
• Understand the unmet needs of target industries, transfer the potential needs to Marketing and Product Management team to develop new products.
• Identify and develop the potential new partners/distributors based on market analysis to support business growth.
• Monitor competitor activities and report potential infringements of tesa from competitors with suggestion of solution timely.
• Identify sales/market potential, cooperate with Marketing or Product Management team to explore the potential solution for further business growth.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor degree or above in chemical, business, economics or similar.
• Min 5 years working experience in sales relevant, chemical industry working experience will be preferred.
• Strong capability to communicate, cooperate and influence across teams and functions.
• Excellent skills in stakeholder and customer management.
• Strong learning ability and agility, good business acumen.
• Strong problem solving skills, can identify the complex problems and analyze the root reason in area and present clearly.
• Strong willingness to grow and step out of comfortable zone with own initiatives.
• Strong willingness and ownership to achieve business growth and goals & objectives.
• Strong capability to work well under pressure.
• Highly self-motivating, open minded and diligent attitude.
• Good risk management sense, strong capability to identify the potential risk.
• Know IATF 16949 and APQP/PPAP/FMEA/SPC/MSA.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and manage people effectively
• Chinese with fluency in Mandarin is a must.
• Workable English communication skill in written and oral.
• Business travel is needed, should be flexible to travel frequently.

At tesa, we create adhesive solutions that improve the work, products and lives of our customers.

How we do it? At tesa, we dare to create! Therefore, we team up, we challenge ourselves and we set the pace. But we don’t just do that somehow. We act responsibly and always focus on our customers. Because only then we are able to achieve our goals and continuously improve our results.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and regard diversity as important for our long-term success. We expressly reject all forms of direct and indirect discrimination. All qualified applicants will be equally considered for employment regardless of their national origin, background, personal preferences and believes.

By applying you consent for the use of your resume for future opportunities within tesa.

If you want to find out more about tesa please visit us on our corporate web-page www.tesa.com (opens in a new window or tab) and social media.

• Attractive remuneration（allowance, supplementary provident fund）
• International work experience, cross-departmental career opportunities
• Flexible working culture
• Training and development program tailored to your needs
• Exciting and varied corporate activities

Please follow the below address to submit your resume: [tesaGCRecruitment@hr.joinus.cc]