RESPONSIBILITIES:
Key Account Management and External Sales:
- Manage and develop relationships with designated mining key accounts and relevant customer stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain account plans covering customer requirements, growth opportunities, relationship priorities and agreed actions.
- Build relationships across customer procurement, engineering, operations, maintenance and project functions.
- Understand customer operations, plant requirements, purchasing processes and planned projects.
- Conduct planned customer visits, presentations and account reviews.
- Promote the relevant product range, service offering and technical capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to increase the range of products and solutions supplied to existing customers.
- Coordinate, negotiate and finalise sales within approved pricing and commercial authority limits.
- Follow up on quotations and update their status on Business Central or the designated company system.
- Monitor outstanding orders and coordinate customer communication regarding deliveries and changes.
- Receive, coordinate or escalation customer complaints and follow through on agreed actions.
- Work with Finance to resolve account-related queries and support overdue payment escalations where required.
Mining Segment Planning and Commercial Performance:
- Develop and implement the Mining segment sales plan in alignment with the company’s business plan.
- Contribute to the preparation of annual segment sales, gross profit and expense budgets.
- Achieve agreed monthly and annual segment sales and gross profit targets.
- Monitor performance against budget, identify shortfalls and implement corrective actions.
- Identify market trends, competitor activity and customer developments that may affect the segment.
- Coordinate Mining segment sales priorities with relevant sales teams and internalstakeholders.
- Manage segment-related expenses within approved budgets.
- Provide management with recommendations on growth opportunities, product requirements and resource needs.
Business Development, Projects and Specifications:
- Research and identify potential mining customers, projects and new business opportunities.
- Develop relationships with consultants, engineering houses, contractors, distributors and other stakeholders serving mining customers.
- Promote the inclusion of relevant products in customer specifications and approved supplier lists.
- Identify and coordinate vendor registrations, tender submissions and framework-agreement opportunities.
- Build and maintain a qualified sales pipeline with clear next actions and expected timelines.
- Update the project tracker regularly and monitor opportunities from identification through to outcome.
- Work with the relevant managers of other segments to clarify account ownership and coordinate opportunities involving shared customers or projects.
- Track new customer acquisition, project progress and conversion of opportunities into orders.
As well as:
Technical Sales Support and Product Development Planning, Reporting and Internal Coordination