Responsible for driving strategic growth by identifying new business opportunities, expanding key accounts, developing market strategies, and building long-term partnerships. The role involves strong collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Key Account Sales, Marketing, HQ Product Division, Management, and Engineeringboth from HQ and ASG. Instrumental for delivering revenue targets andaccelerate business expansion.
Responsibilities of the role:
1. Strategic Market Development
- Identify, evaluate, and prioritize high-potential Domain SolutionPartners and customers within Advantech’s Domain Focus Solutions.
- Develop and execute business development plans to strengthen partnercapabilities, expand customer engagement, and accelerate domain-focusedsolution opportunities.
- Analyze market trends, competitive activities, customerrequirements, and emerging technologies to identify new projects, design wins,and long-term growth opportunities.
2. Revenue & Growth Ownership
- Drive new customeracquisition and manage the full business development pipeline.
- Achieve assignedrevenue, growth, and profitability targets.
- Developannual/quarterly business plans, forecasts, and strategic reviews.
3. Key Account & Partner Management
- Build,maintain, and deepen relationships with key accounts, ecosystem partners, andsolution providers.
- Develop account plans that address customer priorities, growth potential, competitive positioning, and engagement strategies.
- Provide customers with timely andaccurate updates on pricing, forecasts, delivery schedules, productavailability, end-of-life notifications, last-time-buy arrangements, and othercommercial matters.
- Develop accountstrategies to upsell, cross-sell, and grow share of wallet.
- Lead co-creationinitiatives and partnership-driven solution development.
4. Solution Positioning & Value Creation
- Work with product andtechnical teams to develop compelling value propositions, proposals, andsolution packages.
- Deliverexecutive-level presentations, proposals, and business cases.
- Engage customers atboth technical and business levels to ensure solution fit.
5. Deal Management & Negotiation
- Leadend-to-end opportunity management including scoping, proposal drafting,pricing, commercial negotiation, and contract closure.
- Ensure compliancewith internal policies and cross-regional account alignment.
6. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate withMarketing for campaigns, events, and customer engagement initiatives.
- Work with Operations,Logistics, and Support teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
- Coordinate withglobal/regional teams for strategic accounts and joint projects.
7. Reporting & Performance Tracking
- Prepare businessreviews, forecasts, pipeline reports, and go-to-market strategies.
- Analyze salesperformance data and recommend improvements.
- Maintain accuraterecords and CRM documentation.
Qualifications:
Education
- Bachelor’s degree inBusiness, Engineering, Marketing, or related field
Experience
- Minimum 5 years ofexperience in Business Development, Key Account Management, or Strategic Sales.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with partners to develop and deliver solutions tolocal and regional end customers.
- Experience managing complex, solution-based sales opportunities involving multipleinternal and external stakeholders.
- Proven track recordin achieving revenue growth and developing new markets.
- Preferably withexperience in Industrial AIoT, semiconductors, automation, Cloud, AI orhardware systems.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong strategicthinking and market analysis skills.
- Excellentcommunication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to influencestakeholders at all levels (internal and external).
- Strongrelationship-building and partnership-development capability.
- Ability to managecomplex projects, multitask, and work cross-functionally.
- High levelof ownership, self-motivation, and business acumen.
- Willingness to travel locally and regionally when required.