Job TitleSales Manager SEA
Job Description
Sales Manager Southeast Asia
Singapore
This position is a perfect opportunity for someone with sales in their DNA, who can build customer relationships, develop strategic accounts, act as an entrepreneur and close a win/win deal.
Your key responsibilities will include:
In this position, your challenge is to further establish Vanderlande’s position as a market leader in a very competitive market. You will be working for the world’s leading Airports and Parcel clients, helping them to further improve on their business. Your geographical responsibility will include Southeast Asia and possibly other countries in the region.
As a Sales Manager, you define a strategy to conduct and execute market development actions to create business opportunities and gain new projects. These actions are based on the segment strategy and account plans that you develop together with the team. You nurture leads, gather the relevant information on the technical aspects and the bidding process. Together with your sales colleagues, you are responsible for making and executing the sales strategies and plans, understanding the customer’s business, processes and values, anticipating on this, and with the aim to prepare a spot-on proposition which exceeds customers’ expectations. You influence the decision-making processes and build and maintain strong senior management relationships with the relevant Decision-Making Unit (DMU)’s of our existing and potential customers. As Sales Manager you lead the sales team during the complete sales cycle, from negotiating terms and conditions to a winning proposal, creating and selling value rather than price.
Your qualifications and skills
You exceed your discipline, and by doing so, come up with innovative and creative solutions which bring our customers forward. You know how to work together with your internal and external contacts to create the best sales team for each sales project. Ideally, you also have;
- Bachelor in Engineering related degree;
- More than 10 years of commercial working experience; preferably with high value engineered solutions.
- Working experience in relevant industry segment (Airports & parcel or baggage handling system) is an advantage.
- Senior, business acumen and a strong sale spirit.
- Experience in handling mid to large sized business deals.
- Strong communicational skills, you have a creative and efficient approach to building professional client relationships.
- High analytical ability, natural negotiator.
- Willingness to travel within short notice.
- Ability to work within an international work environment and amongst different cultures.
Our company
Established in 1949, Vanderlande is a global market leader in baggage handling systems for world-class airports, sorting systems for parcel and postal services and a leading supplier for cutting-edge warehouse automation solutions.
With over 10,000+ employees across the world, we have our headquarters in the Netherlands, Veghel, and offices globally. Nominated the 'Best Employer' in the Netherlands for four consecutive years, Vanderlande continuously works on improving its people strategies to create an excellent working culture and environment for its people.
Click on the link to find out more about Vanderlande!
www.vanderlande.com
If you’re ambitious and take your long-term career seriously, then please contact us to explore this global opportunity to join a company at the top of its game. For more information or to apply for this challenging position, please visit careers.vanderlande.com
We appreciate every application; however, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
