General Manager APAC #1331
#1331
Sales
, APAC
Overview
Lead the Sales and Develop the company’s Business in APAC for the Communication Service Providers, Utilities, Transportation and Government sectors. Reporting to VP Sales.
Location: Bangkok/Manila/Mumbai/New Delhi/Tel Aviv.
Responsibilities:
Sales
- Reach & Exceed Annual Sales: Product, Services & Maintenance
- Develop Sales activities in the relevant region to achieve aggressive annual growth
- Acquire new customers while maximizing the business potential of the Installed Based
- Experience in direct and indirect (via channels) sales
Customers
- Establish strong relationships with customers
- Develop partnerships to prepare and enable scalability
- Established industry contacts and strong rolodex of customers in region, primarily in Telstra; Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, Soft Bank, NTT, SK Telecom, LG Uplus, Singtel Group, PLDT and Utilities like TEPCO, Chubu Electric Power, NTPC, PGCIL, AGL Energy, etc.
- Reach high customer satisfaction
- Leadership
- Lead the Sales Team to overachievement through professional excellence, clear and repeatable sales processes and forecasting accuracy.
- Managing a team of Sales and Pre-sale Engineers.
Business
- Stay up to date on Market, Business and Macro-Economy trends
- Stay permanently updated on Competitors
- Define appropriate offering for the addressed market
- Reviews and Reports:
- Quarterly business reviews and annual sales plan and strategy
- Weekly Pipeline Review
- Weekly Bookings & Revenues Forecast
- Sales Campaigns
Interfaces
- Business Operations / Finance
- Pre-Sales
- Product managers
- Services
- R&D
Requirements:
Professional Experience
- Extensive sales experience in the relevant region – APAC
- Proven sales leadership
- Strong experience in selling telecom solutions
- Proven successful experience in selling at CxO level
- Extensive experience in sales for SP’s/Telco’s in the relevant regions
- Extensive experience in sales for Government and for Utility sectors in the relevant regions
- Updated relevant connections in the Utilities, Government & in the SP’s industry in the relevant regions
Knowledge
- Telecom Industry
- B2B
- MUST: English – High Professional level
- Advantage: A high professional level in another language spoken in the relevant countries in the region.
Additional Skills
- Negotiation
- Leadership
- Assertiveness