Are you excited to excel in driving top line and bottom line results by upscaling the customer experience? Do you like to (further) build on an engaged and entrepreneurial team of people, operating in Singapore, who are passionate about providing Beer, Wine and Spirits to everyone?
Then we might be looking for you. We are looking for a Singapore Country Manager to join our team who will be responsible for building the team and accelerating the growth of our client base in Singapore. In this role, you will be reporting directly to the CEO Asia Pacific and be heading the local office.
What will you do?
- You will be responsible for driving business growth in Beer, Wine and Spirits (BWS). You will champion local business development and further build our strong relationships with current customers and inspire your local teams on customer needs and opportunities. Therewith you will guarantee an excellent service provision by all local employees, next to identifying new market and customer opportunities without compromising current business. You will set high goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and team, geared to the Hillebrand Gori objectives;
- You will oversee and support the creation of targeted sales and business development plans together with all teams involved. Next to this local responsibility, you will actively engage and drive collaboration with all functions within the Hillebrand Gori network to deliver on our promises, to our clients and to our shareholders;
- As you know that engaged people are driving better customer satisfaction and results, you will help to manage the individual performance of employees, build employee engagement, coach and develop people, put the right people in the right job, therewith fostering our valued Hillebrand Gori culture;
- Your focus will be on optimizing the gross profit. From your responsibility, you will deliver on top line and bottom line objectives from your full P&L, balance sheet and cash sheet responsibility. You will act to surpass goals and focus on exceeding targets;
- You will contribute to the wider Hillebrand business by sharing information, knowledge, best practice, talent and expertise.
What do we expect from you?
- You are a credible expert in the logistics sector with 10+ years of relevant experience in logistics (freight forwarding) / retail businesses. Within our industry, you can prove your track record in business development by expanding product portfolio and customer base;
- You are an entrepreneurial team player that defines the strategy for local business, sets the direction and engages the people to drive the implementation of your plans;
- You are a senior manager with strong leadership and team-building skills to create a winning team. Therefore, your nature is to delegate responsibilities, to create challenging but realistic goals and create a performance driven culture that delivers results, which exceed expectations. This includes open dialogues with the team to overcome challenging issues or learn more about these as a group. Even if this concerns remote-management;
- You are a robust, but collaborative team player, with the ability to leverage a networked, multi-cultural organization easily;
- You are entrepreneurial and resilient. Not a typical corporate character, but down-to-earth and pragmatic in essence (strategic if needed)
