Plastic Additive Sales (Assistant Manager)

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is the Japanese subsidiary of a world leading chemical company. It provides innovative products and solutions to a wide range of industries in Japan and internationally. Its key business areas include chemicals, plastics, agricultural solutions, performance products, and oils/ gas.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Customer management & Strategy planning 
  • Prepare short and mid-term account plan and execute with proper project management. 
  • Understand customer’s organization and decision-making process and record/update in key account plan.
  • Drive the discussion towards the desired target and goal.
  • Identify customers’ needs and area of improvement through VoC (NPS) communication and provide proposal to manage customers’ expectation and build a long-term relationship including level contact. 
  • Develop proposal on sales & marketing approach including technical solutions by involving necessary stakeholders such as technical team and partner distributor. 
  • Manage customer inquiries and NCMs and provide the appropriate feedback along with the plastic additives business guideline, and by considering the business impact.
• Market intelligence
  • Collect, update and evaluate industry trends and share with the team to leverage for plastic additives business activity. 
  • Monitor competitor activity including products and market approach.  
• Distributor management 
  • Define the roles and responsibilities of assigned distributor and monitor / review the activity according to agreed target. 

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Working Experience: >5 years in sales workable, in chemical industry
• Skillset: English reading, writing & verbal communication, basic Computer Excel, word ppt, etc. 

Preferred qualifications:

• Educational background: Science, chemical background is preferred.

Salary

6 - 8 million yen

Location

Tokyo