- Senior Manager – International Sales & BD
Senior Manager – International Sales & BD
Role: Senior Manager – International Sales & BD
Department: International Sales / Business Development
Experience: 3-8 Years
Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent
Industry Type & Background: Specialty Chemicals/Africa Sales/India Chemicals Exports
Responsibilities:
Market Scanning & New Product Introduction
- Scan the macro and micro environment of the chosen specialty chemicals portfolio, identify new product introduction opportunities, and discuss and negotiate contracts.
- Analyze international market data and export-import statistics to identify and develop new business opportunities, filling gaps in the EU market for Asia-origin chemicals.
- Understand EU customer needs and devise strategies to supply new products on a DDP basis.
- Design a winning sales strategy to increase the company’s market share in target specialty chemicals markets.
- Apply an understanding of product costing, tariffs and supply chain costs at origin and destination ports as a tool for effective product management.
- Apply a working understanding of international business practice in specialty chemicals distribution.
Customer Ownership & Order Execution
- Establish credible customer relationships built on a thorough understanding of product value chains from producer to end user.
- Take complete ownership of customer order execution end to end.
- Provide timely delivery updates to customers and ensure on-time deliveries.
- Coordinate with operations and logistics teams to ensure smooth deliveries to customers.
Logistics & Chemical Handling Knowledge
- Apply knowledge of chemical transportation, including the safe use, handling and disposal of chemicals.
- Apply an understanding of bulk chemical transport through intermodal and deep-sea routes.
Key Result Areas:
- Product-wise market research, including industry import/export analysis, to identify market gaps for introducing new products.
- Monitor competition and analyze demand-supply balances for all company products in the target specialty chemicals market.
- Build business intelligence to track imports and exports in target markets; collect market information through secondary research, subscribed news databases such as ICIS, and industry journals.
- Track competitors through annual reports, news and other secondary sources.
- Design, propose, implement, review and correct sales plans to ensure company goals are achieved.
- Apply an understanding of production processes and raw material movements to forecast selling prices.
- Identify, negotiate with and evaluate the performance of freight forwarders and agents for cost-effective, on-time export dispatches and documentation.
- Work comfortably in the European time zone.
- Graduate in Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Science or Engineering; MBA in International Business / Marketing preferred.
Perks and benefits
Timings10:00 AM to 7.00 PM (9-hours workday).
International exposure.
Gratuity
Company holidays, personal days, sick leave.