Total 7 job vacancies by Bosch Group

The objective for ELPRO PTE. LTD. (Singapore) is to further develop the Asian Market. In order to achieve this goal, a strong sales power is required.

The Business Development Manager APAC reports to the Sales Director ("SD") in Singapore and works directly with allocated customers and distribution partners in Asia.

In this duty, the Business Development Manager APAC is responsible to play ELPRO's full portfolio of solutions. Revenues and profit margins of existing customers should be retained and increased. New customers to be gained and further developed. Further, the Business Development Manager provides important input on future sales activities and action plans to grow business in Asia and plays a key role to achieve the goals set in co-operation with the Managing Director. The collaboration between local sales teams and global key accounts is fundamental for ELPRO's success and has to be strongly emphasized by the Sales Director Asia. Due to the complexity of customer projects and processes, it is essential to properly document the complete sales and project processes in ELPRO's ERP system.

Sales:

• In co-operation with the Sales Director develop the business in Asia.
• Grasp the market potential for all ELPRO solutions in the defined market.
• Own customer responsibility.
• Serve as an expert on customer needs and organizations, contract negotiations and customer retention.
• Provide input to specific objectives of the budget / sales plan with functional department.
• Develop partnerships to increase growth with selling partnerships, provide input to contract renewal and overall development of the partners.
• Promote and develop a strong sales culture within the organization.
• Lead sales projects in order to win the business and to ensure a smooth implementation of such.
• Work close together with customer service, project management and technical team to bring projects to success.
• Frequent information exchange with other local sales organizations and Global Key Account Management.

Planning:

• Plan in co-operation with the Sales Director the sales activities in the defined market.
• Plan and properly documents sales opportunities, activities, visits, customer feedbacks etc. in ELPRO's ERP system or other defined tools.

As a key member of the APAC leadership team, you play a pivotal role in driving the business unit’s success by ensuring the APAC team meets financial KPIs and achieves growth exceeding market benchmarks.

As the Head of the Regional Marketing Team based in Singapore, you will lead efforts in:

• Developing and executing sales and market strategies.
• Providing sales support and driving New Product Introductions (NPI) and portfolio management for the BU Communications team across the APAC region.

In this role, you will also be responsible for empowering the regional marketing team to deliver measurable business growth while fostering continuous professional development, ensuring the team remains experts in their respective fields.

Sales and Market Strategy Focus

• Develop and implement the regional market strategy, incl. CSO Go to Market strategy, deployment and tracking
• Create and deploy sales actions/promotions and corrective sales measures, if realized sales performance and/or NPI is below planning
• Analyze BU (segment) market situation and take actions (marketing mix) to gain market share and improve market positioning 
• Conduct market analyses and competitive benchmarks (e.g. portfolio including pricing) and provide related strategies
• Provide input for business planning and regular review of planning/forecasting (yearly planning, phase-out, launch planning)
• Provide input for CSO annual action plans.

Sales Support Focus

• Ensure and support the definition and implementation of the commercial training and certification plan (yearly plans, as well as for new launches)
• Conduct commercial training sessions regularly and ensures training success (internal and customers). Deliver input for development of BU specific commercial training material to BT-CO/MKK (or Regional Training Responsible Colleague)
• Support sales and business development team in customer management/customer visits
• Regional demo stock and life cycle management
• Support regional cross-BU activities (e.g. events, trade shows)
• Ensure spot pricing process and actively be involved in decision process
• Coordinate and escalate technical / QMM issues above and beyond normal ASA support and way-of-working; Trouble shooter: coordinate all product related issues between Customer-CSO-BU-ASA.

NPI/Portfolio focus

• Coordinate and create Sales Forecast new products and align NPI targets with sales organizations, implement corrective measures if NPI is below plan
• Contribute to product/service development by anticipating market trends, end-user and customer needs
• Lead/Support Product Introduction Process (PIP) on all defined process steps, including market input and regional introduction plan
• Contribute to initial product pricing and manage price maintenance and repositioning; support BT-BU/MKR of the country (cluster) in up to date price lists
• Develop the promotion basket for the region/countries
• Coordinate and support regional inventory sell-off programs (EOL, excess inventory)
• Manage product launch in the region (create launch plan, run launch and evaluate)
• Observe the market to ensure together with BT-BU/MKP that our regional product offer is compliant with legal requirements in the field.

Your contribution to something big

• Mine, model and analyze datasets to drive optimization and improvement of business strategies
• Support in bringing data together and creating insights in the marketing function; work with teams across different country, different functions
  • E.g. Vehicle application Catalogue, vehicle/application/product analysis, Market potential analytics etc.
• Support in digital projects such as eCommerce
• Develop smart and efficient solutions to reporting and data extraction needs using SQL, Python etc
• Prepare analysis and actionable insights that will be used to support or devise new marketing strategies
• Prepare reports and utilize PowerBI for data visualization
• Assist in other ad-hoc analytics projects

• Prepare reports periodically and when required
• Involved in sales forecast and analysis process.
• Preparing presentation slides
• Support in credit management process.
• Support in pricing and discount management process.
• Support in compliance topics.
• Support in month end/Year end reporting process.
• Involved in the year end stock take process.
• Other ad hoc assignment.

Job Description

• Support on Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools
• Assist the ASEAN sales team with ongoing analytical, administrative and operational tasks
• Manage sales reports, sales dashboards and sales process to make data access extraction more efficient
• Involve in various projects with different stakeholders to support and drive sales
• Support Preferred partner program and channel strategies
• Market research when required
• Assist in preparation of presentation slides and other ad-hoc sales activities
• Assist in other ad-hoc analytics and marketing project and tasks

• Be actively involved in planning, promotion, and execution of corporate activities
• Assist in social media management across platforms
• Manage content development and localization for internal and external communications and brand management
• Support updates on Bosch corporate websites
• Manage projects with internal and external stakeholders across cultures and time zones
• Ad hoc duties as assigned

• Acts as the Controlling Business Partner for the Mobility Aftermarket Division in Singapore and ASEAN region
• In charge of monthly business reporting and regular forecasting for the entities, conduct monthly KPI review with key stakeholders
• Monitors financial target achievement, risks and opportunities. Analyzes, interprets and summarizes cross-functional information. Develops proactively suggestions for countermeasures to achieve targets
• Provides relevant information/recommendation to management including evaluation of different scenarios. Is able to communicate appropriately relevant information to management
• Supports development of new business models
• Drives continuous improvement of reporting & planning process through automation and standardization