Sales Director - North Asia
Full-time
Director/C-Level
15 hours ago
The Sales Director is accountable for the management, preservation, and growth of Smiths Detection business in the region including all sales and Cust..
The Sales Director is accountable for the management, preservation, and growth of Smiths Detection business in the region including all sales and Customer Relationship Management in the North Asia market, positioning Smiths Detection as the market leading provider of choice across all market segments. This includes the achievement of Orders, Revenue and Profit targets as set by the business. The Sales Director is accountable and responsible for the day to day leadership, management, and development of the sales team.
Ownership of financial performance:
- Directly responsible for achieving North Asia's financial targets, including orders, revenue, profit, and cash receipts
- Develop and manage annual sales budgets
Strategic Influence:
- Shape and execute the sales strategy for North Asia, ensuring alignment with corporate goals and adapting to market changes
- Maintain and manage 5-year strategic plan of all opportunities in market
- Devise & implement the company sales strategy and monitor effectiveness, adjust as required
- Devise and implement new business initiatives to drive sales
Market Management:
- Management of North Asia order intake pipeline to achieve targets
- Create and implement sales action plans for the markets to achieve targets
- Implement an effective sales pipeline and lead tracking process
- Devise and recommend actions on a continuous basis to ensure business performance
Operational Excellence:
- Ensure compliance with Smiths Detection processes and policies, including opportunity approvals as dictated by DOA
- Implementing sales routines to assess regular sales and company performance against KPI’s
- Implement best practices in sales techniques, thereby enhancing operational efficiency
- Project sales volumes and profit for all products and solutions, including aftermarket, and manage the Integrated Business Planning process
- Ensuring the company ERP (SAP) is being used correctly and effectively
Competitive Edge:
- Monitor competitor activity and respond accordingly, devising and implementing strategies to counter activities
- Maintain control and awareness of political, economic, social, technological, environment and legal context across the region, including early identification of changing trends, and take actions accordingly
Client and Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers and distributors
- Speak at conferences and events about the company’s products and services
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies
- Negotiate contractual agreements to deliver favorable commercial outcomes for Smiths Detection
Team Development and Performance:
- Lead and mentor a team of Regional Sales Managers and foster a high-performance culture and ensuring team targets are met.
- Maintain team results and performance monitoring, creating results by counselling, coaching, mentoring, and managing performance. Plan, monitor and appraise team results and manage the performance of all members of the sales team
- Establish sales objectives and develop sales plans for all Regional Sales Managers and associated markets and ensure targets are met.
- Ensure the organisation has an effective sales training and development program
- Implement best practice in sales techniques throughout the department.
- Contribute to team effort by achieving individual sales targets
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