Business Development Manager, Ocean Freight Hangzhou

•Identify Ocean business opportunities in the sales territory of Hangzhou.

• Gain business with new customers (close the deal!) and additional business with

existing clients.

• ‘Own’ your customers and maintain/strengthen customer relationship.

• Provide quotations and business solution support to your customers.

• Know your clients, their industries, market potentials, competitors.

• Do frequent customer visits (customer penetration) to ensure positive market visibility. 

• Align with KAM/RDM and PM on the respective strategies.

• Create sales leads for overseas.

• Ensure TWNS system is always updated according to TWNS SOP.

• Coordinate the resolution of business issued with stakeholders.

• Ensure agreed DSO/overdue levels are in control; manage credit applications for

own clients.

• Actively communicate to clients & internal stakeholders on all customer related topics.

• Maintain Sales Pipeline & CRM system

• Achieve agreed GP based on regional targets

• Achieve 30 Sales Calls per week

• Achieve other Individual target defined by subregional sales managers

• Knowledge of Ocean Freight Forwarding 

• Fluent in written and spoken English and Mandarin 

• Minimum college degree

• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant working experience in the industry

• Analytical skills to solve complex problems

• Strong writing and oral communication skills

• Advanced experience in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio)

• Fluent business Chinese and good English knowledge (oral and written) required 

• Be able to travel frequently within the territory of Hangzhou.

• Target and Result focus 

• Experience to work in a demanding intercultural environment 

 General Description

Independently  drive  business  in  cooperation  with  local  sales  support  and  operation. 

Acquire  business from new customers,  develop new business  and maintain  relationship 

with existing customers to achieve sales goal for the sales territory, Hangzhou.