Field Sales Manager

at  GEODIS LOGISTICS SINGAPORE PTE LTD

KEY ACTIVITIES / ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Deliver GP Budgets for the Territory;
• Act strategically to achieve personal and overall group success;
• Identify and build relationships with clients within the territory, especially those clients who meet our preferred client criteria;
• commit client base and key stakeholders, both internal and external;
• Meet FaceTime targets as agreed for the Territory by visits, phone calls and direct mail, to both new prospects and existing customers;
• Build & maintain opportunity pipelines in excess of the territory budgets/ hit rates;
• promptly work upon and register opportunities generated in CRM;
• Use Geodis Selling processes to understand customer needs, keep updated with new sailings/routings/solutions in the market to provide client solutions that bring value to their clients supply chains;
• Document and distribute internally relevant customer information;
• Contact customers and handle customer inquiries and customer problems;
• Work according to GSP tools;
• Work closely together with sales colleagues and related functions in order to maximize sales potentials and help meet the total organisation’s business goals;
• Handling complaints and trouble shooting;

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Minimum 4 years’ experience with documented sales record
• Sales experience and working knowledge of the international transportation and logistics industry
• Familiarity with the financial aspects of the relevant local economy as well as international market conditions and trends, and international business issues, including currency factors and cultural differences
• Good computer skills, familiarity with Microsoft office etc
• Fluent in local language, comfortable in English and other languages (in order to handle complaints and trouble shooting requested by local and other different language speaking clients)
• Presentation techniques, comfortable with meeting and presenting for groups 2-3 people
• Knowledge of Geodis tools
• Knowledge of company goals and strategies
• Fluent in local language, comfortable in English and other languages (in order to handle complaints and trouble shooting requested by local and other different language speaking clients)
• Basic sales techniques and negotiation skills
• Presentation techniques, comfortable with meeting and presenting to groups 2-3 people
• Knowledge of Geodis Singapore tools
• Knowledge of company goals and strategies
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Highly proficient in computer skills and common applications (Office, Excel, PowerPoint & Word)

• The principal objective of FSM is to achieve budgets for their Allocated Territory by generating opportunities both from existing & new accounts
• This requires the FSM to
• maintain list of accounts (existing & potential) which have decision making within their territory
• use prescribed tools & processes to improve and increase FaceTime
• work on creating opportunity pipelines in excess of the territory budgets/ hit rates