Business Development & Pipeline Growth
- Market Expansion: Actively prospect, generate leads, and develop new business opportunities across industrial markets and key account segments.
- Repeat Business: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with existing clients to secure recurring orders and long-term contracts.
- Client Engagement: Conduct regular face-to-face visits, online meetings, telephone calls, and written communications with new and existing clients to build trust and brand preference.
Technical Solutioning, Proposals & Deal Closure
- Requirements Evaluation: Assess client operating parameters, system specs, and application challenges to propose appropriate pump solutions and technical packages.
- Technical Presentations: Prepare and deliver technical presentations, product demonstrations, and engineering advice tailored to client applications.
- Deal Closure & Follow-up: Proactively track and follow up on submitted quotations/proposals to negotiate terms, address client objections, and secure signed purchase orders or contracts.
Project Monitoring & Client Communication
- Delivery Oversight: Monitor active jobs and project milestones to ensure all orders strictly adhere to contractual delivery schedules.
- Stakeholder Updates: Provide timely progress updates and delivery schedules to clients, principal factories, and internal project execution teams.
Reporting & Commercial Administration
- Sales Reporting: Prepare and submit accurate monthly sales pipeline reports, factory progress updates, and activity logs to the Sales Team Leader.
Job Requirement
- Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Instrumentation, Industrial Engineering or equivalent.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in B2B industrial sales, technical sales or engineering solutions sales.
- Experience in Oil & Gas, Palm Oil, Petrochemical, Water, Utilities or Industrial sectors is an advantage.
- Exposure to pumps, rotating equipment, instrumentation, process equipment or industrial services would be beneficial.
- Able to understand technical specifications and customer requirements.
- Basic understanding of industrial equipment and engineering applications.
- Able to prepare quotations and commercial proposals.
- Comfortable participating in technical discussions with engineers and plant personnel.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Able to identify and pursue new business opportunities independently.
- Strong prospecting and customer acquisition skills.
- Comfortable conducting cold calls and customer visits.
- Strong networking and interpersonal skills.
- Able to build trust with engineers, maintenance teams, procurement personnel and management.
- Customer-focused and service-oriented.
- Based in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
- Possess valid driving licence and own transportation.
- Willing to travel regularly across Sabah and occasionally to Sarawak or Peninsular Malaysia.
- Able to work independently as the company's front-line representative in Sabah.