Storage Sales Representative - 14188/WF
Job Information
- Job ID
- 94947
- Job Title
- Storage Sales Representative - 14188/WF
- Company Name
- Hudson
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Division
- Hi-Touch Sales
- Location
- Tokyo - 23 Wards
- Salary
- 7 million yen ~ 11 million yen
- Date Refreshed
- July 22nd, 2008 11:40
General Requirements
- Minimum Experience Level
- Over 3 years
- Minimum English Level
- Business Level
- Minimum Japanese Level
- Native
- Minimum Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Visa Status
- Japanese national or permission to work in Japan required
Job Description
Job Summary:
Your overall focus areas will be in prospecting, developing business, responding to RFP’s, developing proposals for presentation to customers, and selling Products and Services. Cross-functional teams from Marketing, Systems Engineering and Product Development functions provide support and tools for you to leverage to attain and exceed sales performance goals. You will utilize your excellent relationship building, negotiating, and technical skills to be successful in this role.
Work directly with customers to capture sales opportunities and to work effectively across functions with other employees. Specific areas of responsibility include:
- Use relationship management techniques to develop selling opportunities within existing customer accounts; penetrate new divisions and organizations within assigned accounts; develop new selling relationships within assigned partner accounts.
- Schedule and attend sales call appointments with customers. Other Sales team members may also participate in the sales call to help qualify the opportunity.
- Determining if customer has a valid need for products and services.
- Proposing an evaluation test project to enable the customer to test the product or products in their own environment.
- Determining acceptance criteria that a customer could use to determine the success of an evaluation test project.
- Utilizing a consultative approach, discuss business issues with customer and develop a formal quote, a written sales proposal, or a formal sales presentation addressing their business needs.
- Respond to RFP’s and follow up with customer.
- Develop an account management plan to sell to customer based on their business need.
- Build and strengthen your business relationship with customers within existing accounts. Ensure that their needs are being met.
- Recommend marketing strategies.
- Provide status information to your Manager including forecast/pipeline information.
- Provide, or facilitate training opportunities for your accounts.
- Identify customer references that can be utilized when reference selling.
Responsibility and Interaction:
o As a seasoned, experienced professional, with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures, this individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving a wide range of issues in imaginative and practical ways.
o Is responsible for a specific geographical install base and medium to large accounts.
o May have own account responsibility or work on a team.
Interaction:
o This individual effectively works with senior internal personnel within the function, some employees in other functions that support the sales effort, and has direct customer contact.
o Little management direction is provided on day to day work; general instructions are given on new assignments; as well as review of activities and priorities.
o The ideal candidate is a subject matter expert and contributes proactively to sales team efforts and positively influences decisions. May also act as a team leader and main decision maker for team projects.
Required Skills
Responsibility and Interaction:
As a seasoned, experienced professional, with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures, you will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving a wide range of issues in imaginative and practical ways.
o Is responsible for a specific geographical install base and medium to large accounts.
o May have own account responsibility or work on a team.
Interaction:
o Effectively work with senior internal personnel within the function, some employees in other functions that support the sales effort, and has direct customer contact.
o Little management direction is provided on day to day work; general instructions are given on new assignments; as well as review of activities and priorities.
o The ideal candidate is a subject matter expert and contributes proactively to sales team efforts and positively influences decisions. May also act as a team leader and main decision maker for team projects.
Education & Experience:
5 to 8 years of experience is preferred.
A Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree in Electrical Engineer or Computer Science; or related field is required.
Experience which demonstrates a strong level of expertise in technical specifications required to sell Storage products and services is required.
Company Description
Hudson (NASDAQ: HHGP) is a leading provider of management recruitment, contract professionals and talent management services worldwide. In Japan, Hudson’s specialist teams recruit senior and mid-level executives across industries and functions including Legal, Banking & Financial Services, Manufacturing & Industrial, IT & Telecommunications, Healthcare & Life Sciences, Human Resources, Accounting & Finance, Sales & Marketing, and Supply Chain & Procurement. Hudson aims to lead the industry in the search and assessment skills of our consultants and the quality of our processes, with 4,000 professionals serving clients and candidates in more than 20 countries. More information is available at www.hudson.com.
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