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