Job Purpose
To drive sales growth within assigned accounts in alignment with Future Electronics' EMS corporate objectives by developing strong customer relationships, increasing account penetration, and delivering value-added solutions.
Principal Accountabilities
- Achieve sales performance in line with approved budgets and targets.
- Strengthen and maintain strategic relationships with assigned customer accounts.
- Increase account penetration and coverage across assigned customers.
- Promote and deploy Future's value-added services to customers.
- Coordinate closely with SAM, OSPM, and Global Account Managers on assigned accounts.
- Support and execute upstream account strategies in collaboration with Global OEM Account Managers at assigned EMS accounts.
Key Responsibilities
- Meet or exceed sales targets and company objectives.
- Manage, maintain, and grow the assigned customer portfolio.
- Take ownership of Asia Pacific revenue and profitability for assigned accounts.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of customers' products, services, business objectives, and organizational structure.
- Participate in regional and global quotation activities, including pricing reviews and cost-down initiatives.
- Work closely with SAM and OSPM teams to actively follow up on RFQs, purchase opportunities, and escalations.
- Proactively identify and secure registration parts related to transfer business opportunities and RFQ activities.
- Collaborate with the Global Account Manager (GAM), SAM, and OSPM to identify potential three-party supplier engagements that support revenue growth and profitability.
- Engage customers and the Marketing team to identify opportunities to convert non-strategic material spend to Future.
- Explore and develop value-added service opportunities with GAM, SAM, and OSPM that differentiate Future from competitors.
- Ensure Future's commercial interests are protected before formalizing service scope agreements, while aligning with site-specific requirements and existing global agreements.
- Maintain strong working relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders by consistently meeting commitments.
- Ensure customer profiles and account activity information are accurately maintained and regularly updated in relevant systems.
- Partner with Account Executives and Sales teams to maximize design-in opportunities within customer organizations that have engineering and design capabilities.
- Act as the primary point of contact for customer escalations and internal issue resolution.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Business, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Experience
- Minimum 5 years of sales experience, preferably within the electronics, EMS, semiconductor, or technology industry.
Competencies
Knowledge & Skills
- Results-oriented with a strong drive for achievement.
- Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Strong negotiation and influencing capabilities.
- Good product and market knowledge.
- Effective presentation and communication skills.
- Strong business acumen.
- Ability to work collaboratively across cross-functional teams.
- Analytical and systematic problem-solving approach.
- Strong sense of urgency and commitment to meeting response times and customer expectations.
Learning & Development Focus
- Advanced communication and presentation skills.
- Prioritization, planning, and multitasking capabilities.
- Strategic account management.
- Customer relationship management and stakeholder engagement.
Key Challenges
- Consistently achieving or exceeding sales targets while maintaining healthy profit margins and supporting overall business objectives.
- Building and maintaining strong customer relationships through varying business conditions and challenges.
- Ensuring Product Marketing teams fully understand customer strategies, objectives, and requirements to maximize quotation success rates.
- Driving alignment and execution of global account strategies through effective collaboration and influence over SAM and OSPM teams at the local level.