North Asia Key Account Manager, BHC

Posted:
9/19/2024, 9:43:19 PM

Location(s):
Shanghai, China

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy ⋅ Sales & Account Management

Key Deliverables

Critical Deliverables

Build Customer focused Mindset

  • Develop North Asia Business Strategy
  • Identify opportunities and direct engage top local accounts
  • Understand competitor intelligence and find differentiated value from our ingredients
  • Manages the KPI for distributor(s), working out action plan with distributors to close the gap if any
  • Actively utilize Sales Force tool to track opportunities, consistently update leads, opportunities and call reports
  • Drive materials localization project
  • Responsible to prepare compelling presentation and deliver it at customer visit, trade shows regarding avenues of new application or new technologies
  • Feedback in development of Sales Toolkits (prototypes / concepts) and value propositioning strengthening for North Asia with the help from Technical Lead in Singapore

Inspire Bold Innovation

  • Resourceful to work in an environment set for growth (new product pipelines, new markets. etc)
  • Summarize each customer visits finding and find the opportunity to develop new products and unique value of existing products
  • Work with technical and marketing team to drive innovation and story telling

Build Great Talent

  • Collaborate with the local sales team to facilitate development of cross fertilization (i.e. Food, Industrial sales, Pharma, etc)
  • Develop a good reputation for Ingredion in the BHC industry through marcom and personal branding
  • Collaborate with sales outside China to share/learn of success stories, trends and news top local accounts

Knowledge, Skills, and Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Pharma or Cosmetics Chemistry
  • At least  8-10 years of working experience in Personal Care & home industry
  • Excellent knowledge in Skin Care (Leave on / Rinse off), Body care, baby care Hair Care, and Home Care Chemistry, Formulation and Testing.  Technical support is preferred
  • Preferably handle both commodity and functional ingredients such as starch, thickeners, humectants, emulsifiers, encapsulating agents,etc.
  • Comfortable working in lean environment and influence others
  • Effectively communicate, interact and work collaboratively with peers, customers and regional colleagues.
  • Successful track record of projects with Global Key Accounts and Domestic top accounts
  • Preferably managing the business from scratch to sizable revenue
  • Experience in effectively managing multiple projects under tight deadlines

Desired behavior,  personal attributes,(Success Drivers And Competencies):

  • Well verse with the BHC industry and community.
  • “Hunter” mindset in driving business growth
  • Be resilient, emotionally mature to manage big stress
  • Must be a decisive, goals-oriented individual, capable of independent decision making with the ability to successfully meet targeted goals and time and budgetary constraints
  • Strong interpersonal skills and to directing or influencing others (both inside and outside the direct chain of command) with the ability to interface effectively with team members, management and customers
  • Build customer intimacy skills
  • Strong written and verbal skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner with people of other cultures and languages
  • Travel may constitute up to 30 percent of the time on the job within North Asia and the occasional regional meeting.

Relocation Available:

Yes, Within Country