Assistant Sales & Marketing Manager (Polymer/Hanoi/Japanese speaking)

Job Responsibilities

• Drive forward-looking sales strategies to grow the business by acquiring and developing new customers for our Polymer Products in Vietnam with a focus on Global Key Accounts and Regional Paint manufacturers in Vietnam.
• Establish a positive reputation as a valuable business partner committed to our customer's success.
• Build a positive and long-term relationship with existing key customers to retain and motivate them to further develop existing business and explore opportunities in the new potential business segments.
• Conduct Market research (e.g. Acrylics for Auto Refinish, Motorcycle, Wooden, Waterborne-Resins, etc.) and establish appropriate strategies to explore opportunities in new business environments.
• Implement continuous business performance evaluations and improvements, to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction and retention.
• Maintain an excellent understanding of the technical applications of our new & current products and regularly update our customers.
• Especially, need to understand exactly our regional de-facto standard products for both AP and CN regions.
• Develop and strengthen the polymer team in terms of technical knowledge, marketing techniques, communication, and motivation.
• Generate business support information which includes monitoring of key competitors, market statistics, and trends to support business decision making; participate actively in paint and coating exhibitions and associations.
• To collaborate with each DIC entity such as SCI, PJC, DSA, and DIC-China, to foster closer partnership and work activities.　　　　

Job Requirements

• Priority: Vietnamese, business level English and Japanese. (Business level written Japanese not needed. Japanese spoken skill is necessary)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in a diverse, international and intercultural environment;
• Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels within the organization;
• Proactive and ability to identify opportunities for positive change;
• Self-driven individual with a proven record of meeting targets and goals;
• Strategic thinker and has excellent influence to inspire others to achieve business goals;
• Chemistry or equivalent degree is desirable, but graduation from a liberal arts university is also possible.
• Around 5 years of experience in marketing and business development.
• Applicants must be eligible to work in Vietnam, Hanoi branch.