苏州招聘

Our client is a global market leader within high performance and high quality polymers that develops, manufactures and markets products for bonding, coating, sealing and damping for the automotive industry. The company with global headquarters in Europe has 25 production sites in 16 countries and more than 2,300 employees worldwide. The Asian headquarters are located in Hong Kong and the China headquarters are located in Shanghai. The company currently has four production units China in with around 200 employees and a turnover of around RMB 650 million.

Market Development Manager within Automotive Industry Wanted to European Market Leading Company in Shanghai
The role/responsibility

The company currently wants to increase sales and widen the market for their products in China and is in need of a Market Development Manager who can work closely with the nation-wide production and sales organizations and find new markets for the company’s market leading products for the automotive industry. You will have a strategic role to formulate business and marketing plans you will work together with the other branches in China in order to expand their sales. In this role you will identify and evaluate existing and new local and global customers within the automotive industry and work actively to find new business opportunities. Your work will support the existing sales organization with everything from identifying potential customers, and establishing long-term relationships to following up on existing customers and monitoring the market.
Experiences and personal qualities

To be successful as a Market Development Manager you have to be an independent and social person who can easily spot business opportunities. The position requires at least five years sales or marketing management experience in the automotive industry and you should also be familiar with long sales cycles and technically complex products, preferably polymers. You need to have worked in a Western corporation and thereby have a good understanding of European business culture meanwhile have a deep understanding of the Chinese market. You are fluent in both Mandarin and English and know the automotive market well. To master this role you also need to have good communication and leadership skills. As a person you are a social and independent relationship-builder and an excellent communicator. Additionally you are result-driven and should be able to meet targets within assigned timeframes.

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