Sales Manager

Region APC > Sales APAC > Sales Asia

Our Sales Managers are responsible to win and consistently close some of the most exciting wind projects in Asia. If you relish the opportunity of developing the best commercial proposals for our customers and are excited to supervise the contractual negotiations, then you should consider this role further!

Vestas Asia Pacific is a business area responsible for selling, installing and maintaining wind turbines. With our presence and previous experience with Asia, we aim to be the highest growth business area in Vestas. More importantly, we intend to make Vestas Asia Pacific the most attractive workplace. Together, these ambitions will ensure that Vestas remains the energy industry's global partner on sustainable energy solutions.

Responsibilities

Developing sales approaches and designing plans for additional sales goals and targets thereby contributing towards the long-term growth of the organisation, possessing product knowledge with the ability to effectively market the product to customers, negotiate terms and close deals.

• Setting sales and commercial goals and providing input to the internal stakeholders involved in selling
• Generating new opportunities and leads based on customer, competitor or market understanding
• Formulating a sales management strategy to achieve those goals
• Face the customers jointly with the deal team throughout the entire sales process
• Supervise the commercial negotiations
• Reviewing tender material
• Develop bid, negotiation and commercial strategies
• Ensuring structure within the bid and negotiation phase
• Reporting progress to the management team
• First point of contact for commercial issues and responsible for internal escalation
• Building the customer relationship and face the customers together with the Senior Technical Sales Manager throughout the sales process
• Align commercial requirements and risk assessment with internal stakeholders.
• Develop a cross-functional team from different departments working on a project.
• Compliance with internal processes and guidelines.
• Involved in planning and focusing to increase sales volume, contributing to company profits and long term growth of the organisation
• Owning negotiation cycle from signing a non-disclosure agreement to closure, contract, signature and customer / buyer segmentation

Qualifications

We are looking for a person with the following qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor's degree in engineering or business administration, coupled with good professional and project management experience, ideally within the wind energy, EPCI offshore oil and gas, power plants, infrastructure or the construction industry. A master's degree would be preferred.
• Experience with being involved on a commercial side in negotiations of large complex projects and can articulate the consequences from a commercial and contractual point of view
• Experience with long-term sales processes and will be required to deliver results in a complex organisation selling large-scale projects

Competencies

The ideal candidate fulfils as many of the below requirements as possible:

• Solid stakeholder management skills. The Sales Manager must effectively seek contact with all relevant partners and business relations
• Be a team-oriented person and develop a cross-functional team toward a common goal
• Show leadership i.e. influence others to accomplish a goal
• Give, receive and understand information in a clear and concise manner. Present information professionally and convincingly to ensure high perception, acceptance and understanding
• Understand, link and evaluate information to understand issues, identify options and support sound decision-making
• •Korean and business English competencies are required
• Look and plan ahead to control a situation by causing something to happen rather than waiting to respond to it after it happens.
• Resilience and persistency to withstand long-cycle customer negotiations
• High degree of structure and project management skills
• Great sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity

What We Offer

We offer you an exciting and innovative job with excellent opportunities for professional and personal development within the global company in the renewable energy industry. You will be provided with a unique opportunity to set your footprints within an essential area in Vestas. You will be an integral part of an international team, with a 'can-do' attitude and who are keen to make a difference.

Additional Benefit

• Flexible benefits plan
• Medical insurance / Hospitalization / Life insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• International business travel insurance
• Additional annual leave to statutory (20 business days)
• Maternity leave
• Pregnancy treatment leave
• Paternity leave
• Paid sick/ medical leave
• Half day off (a half-day off in the afternoon on the eves of mid-autumn festival, new year
• And lunar new year)
• Annual medical examination
• Send flower to employees in case of employee’s wedding or funeral
• Long service award
• Diverse and open work environment
• Highly value career development of employees, support internal transfer and promotion

Additional Information

We do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to the advertised closing date. Please be advised to apply on or before the 31st of Jan. 2025.

BEWARE – RECRUITMENT FRAUD It has come to our attention that there are a number of fraudulent emails from people pretending to work for Vestas. Read more via this link, https://www.vestas.com/en/careers/our-recruitment-process

DEIB Statement At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

About Vestas Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.  Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 173 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field.  With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future.  Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity.  To learn more about our company and life at Vestas, we invite you to visit our website at www.vestas.com and follow us on our social media channels. We also encourage you to join our Talent Universe to receive notifications on new and relevant postings.