Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop a sales strategy to achieve organizational sales goals and revenues
- Technical support of our customers, sales and marketing as well as our product- and process-development-department
- Training of sales and customers, presence at trade fairs
- Cooperation in product development
- Regular trips to the production sites, including technical training and trouble shooting
- Build up relationships / contacts to customers
- Responsibility for Technical Sales in Vietnam, China, Indonesia and Thailand
- Create, strengthen and expand client relationships (e.g. scope and depth of relationship, revenues, degree of customer loyalty)
- Spend significant time with clients to understand and anticipate their specific needs and to be able to develop solutions
- Collaborate and communicate closely with the Product and Process Development De-partment and other Departments of the company
- Cross-regional team work other sales colleagues on global key accounts
- Monitor industry and client trends
- Integrate personally into the firm as a valuable, collaborative and culturally astute team member
- Contribute to the further strategic advancement of the company
Requirement
- Excellent product knowledge and technical understanding in dealing with materials, pro-cessing and development in the relevant segment
- Knowledge about technical implementation / feasibility in the relevant segment
- Several years of experience in the manufacture and construction of shoes, especially sports shoes
- Straight-forward individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong empathy and personal integrity
- Experience in working in an international environment and willingness to travel fre-quently
