Job Information
Shell Account Manager, Marine in Japan
Purpose
Sales activities
-To drive sustainable business growth to achieve market leadership in Marine Lubricants through value selling approach:
To achieve strategic partnership with Direct customers & Key Account (incl. SMC) and become customer’s first choice brand in Marine Lubs.
Operation activities
Coordinate all deliveries outside Japan with CO team.
Block the orders or request CO team to billing blocks (AM triggers when pricing not set up or contract expired / missing / renegotiated)
Manage customer experience and journey order placing and updates
Pro-active communication directly with customer in the event Shell has difficulty in meeting the delivery as promised
Manage order related feedback or complaints - Manage lift planning with Customers (i.e. suggests ports for profit and costing)
Do Customer visits to address missed deliveries or issues on deliveries
Arrange/Attend the meetings with Marine supply chain managers when requested - Provide day to day support (both proactive and reactive) to Line managers on any of the issues already referred to, as well as response to immediate/unusual situations.
Accountabilities
Review marketing initiatives and feed accurate forecasts into S&OP process; Drive Value selling approach within Sales team and ensure all Sales staff deliver examples of Value selling”, and be well captured by value documentation; Closely work with supporting/functional team for ensuring sustainable development of China Direct Account and deliver the business targets
Strive to achieve excellence within Demand Forecast Accuracy (DFA), Invoice Accuracy and e-Commerce uptake that support the overall CSI target
Special Challenges
Aggressively grow the Marine Lubricants business, delivering against T&R targets.
Maximize time spent coaching and conducting joint (prospective) customer visits.
Engage with business partners and motivating them to achieve plan.
To operate within agreed strategy and guidelines and uses agreed processes and tools.
- Migrate sales approach from product and price” to selling brand and value led CVPs”.
In summary, this role needs to demonstrate strong leadership in the following areas:
Develop Shell’s competitive edge and convince customers that Shell is providing more value against competitors
Explore top and premium products opportunities via value selling approach and put into implementation
Work together with technical team to develop technical intimacy plan that establish Shell’s competitive edge.
Motivate and business partners to deliver as one team under tough business environment
In addition to all the commercial challenges, this role requires more on below competence:
Manage the middleman service model while keeping the advantage of direct business model can bring real value to Shell.
Leverage value selling model to further build competitive barrier
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