Sales Manager, Asia

Customer Quality Engineer

Funds Transfer Pricing - Management Accounting Team lead ( VP2)

Account Manager IV - Connected Living Solutions

Account Executive

Territory Sales Executive

CEO Executive Assistant

Strategic Accounts Manager

AVP, Channel Marketing

Responsibilities: New Business Development: <ul><li>Drive and secure new business in assigned territory/portfolio/segment</li><li>Be the developer of strong customer accounts, focusing on value proposition and sustainable relationships.</li><li>Identify good market opportunities and collaborate with innovation team in ensuring the right solution for our customers and target market</li><li>Be proactive in understanding the competitive environment, implement ways to protect and grow our business.</li></ul> Key Account Management: <ul><li>Be the focal point of contact to our key clients portfolio, ensuring their business and needs are managed professionally.</li><li>Work cross-functionally across Supply Chain Operations, Procurement, Finance, Operations, Customer Service teams to develop and execute on the client strategies in a collaborative way that maximizes the outcomes.</li><li>Deliver key account growth through continuous value-add solution selling and delighting customers via solid KAM management and keeping their service level targets.</li><li>Research and plan opportunities through promotion of right product portfolio, with the aim of continually advancing sales and improve operating profit.</li><li>Create and maintain Tobacco client strategy and price lists under guidance of the line manager</li><li>Involve him/herself fully in the category planning / customer planning process, and deliver actions agreed.</li><li>Ensure all company sales processes and tools are used effectively in the region.</li></ul> Other Commercial Responsibilities: <ul><li>Develop and implement best practices for regional account planning, budgeting, forecasting and pipeline management.</li><li>Engage in and encourage cooperation across all company functional teams</li><li>Prepare reports for meetings, presentations, forecasting, budgeting, sales analysis and strategic planning activities.</li><li>Stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends and supply chain developments, proactively engage and educate our customers and building an engaging relationship with the market.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>At least 10 years’ experience in Sales/Commercial/Business Development roles</li><li>Experience in the tobacco or consumer goods industry is an advantage.</li><li>Aggressive and tenacious in solution selling within a B2B technical sales environment.</li><li>Possess proven experience with sales &amp; business development through sharp hunting capabilities.</li><li>Track record with regional market development &amp; new product implementation will be plus.</li><li>Experience in account management and team working within a B2B technical sales environment.</li><li>Familiarity with sales performance tools &amp; salesforce CRM tools would be relevant</li><li>Conversant with all Microsoft Office applications, Tableau and Power BI would be an added advantage</li><li>Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to evolving market trends and customer needs.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities to collaborate effectively with internal teams and external customers.</li><li>Must be proficient in English and Chinese.</li><li>International travel is required including Southeast Asia countries such as Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia &amp; Thailand</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Quality point of contact for Global strategic customer accounts.</li><li>Leads Quality / Reliability interactions with the customer, including regular communication and escalations.</li><li>Provide the Voice of the Customer feedback with product management, product engineering and manufacturing locations for characteristics that can become quality or application risks to the customer.</li><li>Provides internal and external technical support in evaluating products from a quality and reliability standpoint.</li><li>Leads cross-functional problem-solving teams to investigate quality issues and minimize customer impact, DPPM, cost of poor quality and drive timely resolution.</li><li>Influences without authority in efforts to achieve a robust 5D/8D response within agreed upon timeline.</li><li>Prepare comprehensive failure analysis reports that clearly communicate findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li><li>Drives systemic corrective action and continual improvement for customers through training and implementation and uses an array of quality improvement tools.</li><li>Regularly reports to management on the overall performance and effectiveness of the assigned global strategic customer account.</li><li>Manage quality issues or inquiries for parts in assigned Global Product Lines. The parts may be made at a company facility or at a sub-tier supplier.</li><li>Supports RMA team functions for disposition of non-conforming products.</li><li>Frequent OEM customer contract manufactures onsite investigations within Vietnam and Southeast Asia as needed to review company product, application use case, problem solve and provide solutions</li><li>Responsible for coordinating and ensuring completion of customer quality requested activities across design qualifications and manufacturing. This includes coordinating globally for all sites, factories, and associated teams within company.</li><li>Ensures compliance with company quality policies and procedures related to customer requirements.</li><li>Partners closely with sales, engineering, and operations to ensure organizational alignment regarding setting targets and achieving quality objectives for our customers.</li><li>Partners with engineering and sales to establish trust with our customers by sharing DDN strategic quality roadmap as well as resolving problems in a timely manner.</li><li>Acts as a liaison between company and the customer for Product Change Notifications and other contractual obligations.</li><li>Regularly conduct reviews with key customers regarding DDNs quality reliability performance.</li><li>Travel within Asia is required to work closely at customer onsite locations and other company locations, including overnight and multi-day trips.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree with engineering technical focus.</li><li>Minimum 5+ years quality reliability and manufacturing experience working in a regional/global capacity.</li><li>Failure analysis expertise: plan, perform effective and efficient investigations using structured approaches such as fault trees to identify root cause and corrective actions.</li><li>Customer interface quality reliability experience in data center interconnect technology.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to lead teams, forge strong internal relationships, and drive improvement initiatives.</li><li>Knowledge and application of quality system regulations (ISO 9000, 14000 and 18000).</li><li>Experienced in the use Lean Six Sigma,8D methodology, Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Process Capability (CpK) techniques, Gage R&amp;R and experience with application FMEAs.</li><li>Possesses strong leadership skills and executive level presence.</li><li>Self-motivated, efficient, ability to work with little or no supervision, and committed to a team approach.</li><li>Strong interpersonal, organization, and project management skills.</li><li>Ability to prioritize responsibilities in a fast-paced work environment.</li><li>Experience in core processes at component level including stamping, molding, plating, and next level assembly such as surface mount technology (SMT), press fit operations, system integrations and product testing.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Understand business function and analyse users requirements, make a clear scope of project and build consensus with users</li><li>Lead in analysis and scoping of data sourcing and functional enhancements, functional/application design, functional specifications, discuss and obtain users agreements</li><li>Obtain commitments from all identified stakeholders on creation of project plan and handle of project change management</li><li>Create project schedule, project activity list and control to keep the schedule and within budget</li><li>Prepare SIT test schedule and develop test cases</li><li>Arrange with users to conduct User Acceptance Test and arrange with development team to prepare necessary test environment and support functional testing</li><li>Monitor and report on the progress of UAT and follow up with the error resolution</li><li>Prepare necessary documents to facilitate and deliver the project (Release checklist, UAT results, etc)</li><li>Manage the technical delivery within timeline and with quality</li><li>Manage change request and defect with release control</li><li>Manage project issues, user and vendor expectations</li><li>Ensure end-user satisfaction and meeting service level agreement</li><li>Provide coaching to team and to build high performance team</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Relevant experience in a Financial Institution for Management Accounting and Profitability Reporting</li><li>Financial applications (e.g. General Ledger, cost management, budget, forecast) in banking environmet</li><li>Good understanding of data from core banking and treasury products</li><li>Data mapping and data sourcing from data warehouse experience</li><li>Good understanding in SDLC phases</li><li>Capability in requirement analysis and functional design skills</li><li>Capability of self-learning and a quick learner</li><li>Be adaptable, flexible and be able to thrive in a challenging, fast-paced of a growing organization / environment</li><li>Good communication (written and oral) skills</li><li>Ability to network and influence others without direct oversight or supervision</li><li>Ability to develop and maintain productive working relationships with colleagues in distributed global locations</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Developing and executing account strategies to meet revenue targets and increase market share for automotive connectors and other key product folio</li><li>Focus on spec in company part into customer new project</li><li>Drive, report, monitor key metrics to achieve sales KPI which aligned with organization goal, which are new business wins (TERP), Revenue achievement and margin</li><li>Building and maintaining strong relationships with existing clients, including regular communication</li><li>Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities with potential clients in the appliance industry for 5 years revenue pipeline</li><li>Drive new business with customer engineer &amp; purchasing through sales &amp; marketing activities plan</li><li>Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, competitors, and customer needs to drive sales growth</li><li>Collaborating with cross-functional teams in ASEAN and Global team, including sales, customer service, engineering, production, and quality assurance, to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality products and services, and other Sales KPI</li><li>Negotiating pricing, contracts, and delivery terms with clients to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Engineering education</li><li>High degree of integrity, Teamwork, Innovation and Accountability</li><li>Language: Excellent in English. Chinese is an advantage</li><li>Able to work in cross cultural especially in ASEAN countries and travelling</li><li>Preferably at least 5 years in sales or related field automotive industry (harness maker production field)</li><li>Customer service orientation</li><li>Demonstrate ability to collaborate cross functionally, cross regions</li><li>Strong verbal and written communication skills including presentation and computer skills (i.e. Power Point, Excel, Word, Salesforce, SAP and other tools)</li><li>Must be ambitious, exhibit strong results-orientation and execution characteristics</li><li>Ability to effectively organize, prioritize and accomplish multiple conflicting tasks, make intelligent, timely decisions and solve problems independently</li><li>Ability and willingness to travel as required, Domestic/ Overseas, 25% is travelling</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Drive year-over-year sales growth within the assigned North Italy territory</li><li>Develop and execute strategic sales plans for residential HVAC OEM customers</li><li>Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision makers across customer organisations</li><li>Identify new business opportunities and grow existing accounts</li><li>Promote sustainable and low-GWP refrigerant solutions (e.g. CO2, R290, A2L)</li><li>Collaborate with internal teams across sales, engineering, and product management</li><li>Maintain accurate pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting</li><li>Deliver customer presentations and value-based selling approaches</li><li>Manage full sales lifecycle from prospecting through to deal closure</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Proven experience in sales, account management, or business development</li><li>Experience within HVAC, refrigeration, or residential heating/cooling markets preferred</li><li>Strong commercial acumen and ability to manage complex sales cycles</li><li>Ability to develop and execute territory and account strategies</li><li>Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills</li><li>Ability to work across different cultures and manage regional accounts</li><li>Fluency in English and Italian preferred</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Execute the strategy defined by the Strategic Account Executive across assigned regional customer locations and branches.</li><li>Develop and maintain strong relationships with local and regional distributors within the territory.</li><li>Coordinate closely with Enterprise Account Teams to ensure effective coverage of strategic and large enterprise accounts.</li><li>Support and engage key wholesale partners and their branch networks through training, business development, and activation initiatives.</li><li>Deliver product training and technical support across distributor branches and contractor networks.</li><li>Work directly with contractors as key influencers in the sales process, ensuring they are equipped to specify and promote our solutions.</li><li>Implement channel strategies to drive revenue growth and increase market share through distribution partners.</li><li>Negotiate and manage local agreements, pricing structures, and performance metrics with distributors.</li><li>Conduct regular business reviews with partners to track performance and identify growth opportunities.</li><li>Ensure strong alignment and communication between all stakeholders across the value chain.</li><li>Promote client full portfolio, including compressors, controls, electronics, monitoring solutions, and related technologies as part of a complete customer offering.</li><li>Maintain accurate sales activity, pipeline, and account information within Salesforce CRM.</li><li>Travel extensively within the assigned territory to support customers, distributors, and contractors.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Technical qualification, degree, HNC/HND, apprenticeship, or equivalent experience in Refrigeration, HVAC, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.</li><li>Minimum of 5 years experience in technical sales, application engineering, business development, or channel sales.</li><li>Strong technical understanding of HVAC/R systems, including compressors, controls, electronics, and related solutions.</li><li>Proven experience working with distributors, wholesalers, contractors, and installation partners.</li><li>Excellent communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder management skills.</li><li>Strong commercial acumen with the ability to influence and negotiate effectively.</li><li>Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a matrix organization.</li><li>Proficiency in Salesforce or equivalent CRM systems.</li><li>Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel extensively.</li></ul> Preferred Qualifications and Experience: <ul><li>Experience working with enterprise-level customers and complex account structures.</li><li>Previous experience within the HVAC/R, refrigeration, building services, or industrial solutions sectors.</li><li>Exposure to regional or national sales environments.</li><li>Understanding of contractor influence models and specification-driven sales processes.</li><li>Experience delivering technical product training and supporting channel partner development.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Organizes complex and specific travel plans, itineraries, and agendas; creates documents for meetings involving travel; </li><li>Manages an incredibly busy calendar of appointments; completes expense reports; writes and prepares correspondence that is occasionally confidential; and completes other administrative tasks for the CEO.&nbsp;</li><li>Organizes, plans, and makes sure the CEOs schedule is followed. Creates mutually beneficial opportunities for direct access to the CEOs time and office.</li><li>Communicates directly, and on behalf of the CEO, with Board members, staff, and others, on matters related to CEOs operational efforts.</li><li>Become the primary point of contact for all internal and external stakeholders on all issues involving the CEO, even those that are very private or important. </li><li>Establish priorities and choose the best course of action, recommendation, or response, using your judgment to take the CEOs style and organizational policy into account.</li><li>Set priorities for questions and requests while resolving problems; make decisions and suggestions to enable smooth daily interactions.</li><li>Researches, establishes goals and follows up on all issues and requests for information that are sent to the CEO, even those that are private or delicate. </li><li>Decides on a suitable course of action, referral, or response.</li><li>Provides the foundation for effective communication between the CEOs office and internal divisions; exemplifies leadership to keep senior management staffs credibility, trust, and support.</li><li>Maintains keeping the CEO well-informed of impending obligations and responsibilities and follows up accordingly. </li><li>This requires tight collaboration and effectiveness.</li><li>Establishes relationships that are essential to the organizations performance and oversees a range of special projects for the CEO, some of which may have an influence on the organization.</li><li>Completes crucial projects with a hands-on approach, including drafting acknowledgment letters, personal correspondence, and other duties that help the CEO operate the business efficiently.</li><li>Coordinating internal resources with outside providers will ensure seamless project execution.</li><li>Utilize risk management techniques to reduce project risks.</li><li>Maintain communication with the client and any additional relevant parties.</li><li>Establishing and ensuring the execution of efficient project communication plans.</li><li>Maintain track of customer satisfaction during the projects transition.</li><li>Prioritizes various requests; takes prompt, proactive action; and follows through on tasks until they are successfully completed, frequently under deadlines.</li><li>Serves as the CEO’s administrative liaison.</li><li>Assists board members with making necessary arrangements for travel.</li><li>Provide hospitality to all guests and help to create a welcoming environment.</li><li>Ensures that the CEOs profile is maintained consistently and responds to inquiries about the CEO and the organization.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.</li><li>5-10 years of experience assisting C-level executives</li><li>Expert proficiency with Microsoft Office and desktop publishing software; ability to design and edit graphic presentations and materials.</li><li>A high level of professionalism is required while interacting with various groups of people, such as board members, senior executives, employees, community leaders, funders, and sponsored partners.</li><li>Make appropriate, informed decisions regarding priorities and available time.</li><li>Excellent organizational and time-management skills</li><li>Strong communication skills, both written and verbal</li><li>Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities with little or no guidance.</li><li>Able to handle sensitive material with the utmost integrity and discretion.</li></ul>

Responsibilities: Establish, Own, Execute continuously develop an agreed, sponsored commercial Account Plan that can meet the targets set across: <ul><li>Sales, Orders, Pipeline</li><li>Sales Product Mix</li><li>Margin/Profitability</li><li>Contacts across key functions and levels</li><li>Identify &amp; build positive relations with all account decision makers &amp; influencers who impact current or future business</li><li>Understand in-depth &amp; be able to articulate the client buying process</li><li>Identify, engage, secure revenue opportunities within assigned Account(s)</li><li>Understand &amp; Capture clients challenges &amp; requirements and resolve with reference to portfolio</li><li>Oversee and align the commercial and engineering response to tenders to client requirements</li><li>Finalize commercial process and secure purchase orders and framework agreements</li><li>Oversee effective handover to post order project management, product services &amp; customer support teams</li><li>Maintain oversight to all commercial related engagements for customer success/satisfaction and our performance as vendor</li><li>Knowledgeable on clients business, commercial condition, structure, strategy, operations and challenges. Be able to articulate this in terms of opportunity, growth, risk with respect to business</li><li>Be an effective advocate and communicator of the benefits in supporting your assigned accounts, within organization</li><li>Know and report your account numbers. Be continuously aware of targets and current business levels within the account for both year to date and forecast for order intake &amp; revenue information.</li><li>Responsible for reporting the narrative &amp; the numbers</li><li>Collaborate effectively with other sales and stakeholders at function, country, region and global level. To both gain and provide support so others can function and meet their responsibilities to the account</li><li>Provide all internal stakeholder and functional departments the account specific guidance and insights required so that they can execute their role and add value to the client</li><li>Build a multi-lane bridge between and the client organization. This may include R&amp;D, Product Managers, BU Engineers, BDM, Marketing, PMO, Services, Sales Operations &amp; Order Management, Supply Chain, Leadership &amp; Executive Management</li><li>Request &amp; Support marketing campaigns (ABM) &amp; activity that can grow to Client relations and business</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree or Higher Diploma in Science or Engineering or equivalent Data Centre industry experience</li><li>Relevant experience in the Data Centre business is required</li><li>Demonstrated ability to inspire and coordinate others as the position requires entrepreneurial spirit, high degree of customer affinity and a very strong to influence others</li><li>Demonstrable knowledge of Data Centre design and operations, a technical and engineering presence is preferred</li><li>Able to relate well as a peer to Leaders of target customers</li><li>Knowledgeable on how to identify and implement new tools and processes</li><li>A well rounded professional who knows When to support, When to lead, When to Listen and When to Direct</li></ul>

Responsibilities: <ul><li>Liaise with clients and peers within Performance Marketing to deliver complex channel requests &amp; problem-solving (e.g., new clients, new offers/products, escalated requests related to timeline or complexity).</li><li>Drive the re-imagination of channel execution, transforming to become more flexible, and agile, and deliver expedited cross-channel campaign solutions for all portfolios.</li><li>Scrum Master of Pod; runs stand-ups, assigns workload, trains Pod members on portfolio nuances, and ensures completion of all work.</li><li>Manage , train &amp; mentor/coach team members to ensure competency in multi-channel execution, career growth pathing and enhance performance.</li><li>Act as subject matter expert for advanced email skillsets (e.g., data, execution processes, platforms, suppliers/agencies).</li><li>Manage project initiatives as assigned (e.g., temporary resources, supplier/agency reviews, platform upgrades, client initiatives, cross-channel strategy).</li><li>Manage file selection and segmentation of channel marketing campaigns and facilitate accurate execution of “file only” requests.</li><li>Collaborate with client marketers on optimal design, creative, and segmentation to drive email touchpoints, assisting clients with the agency creative process and legal approval.</li><li>Work within designated email platforms to build and launch email marketing campaigns, adopting AI features to streamline build processes and improve campaign effectiveness.</li><li>Audits high complexity and/or flagged campaigns, including approving campaign requirements.</li><li>Shares campaign performance metrics back to client teams and account managers for continuous campaign improvement.</li><li>Investigate, develop, and champion pilot strategies for next-generation channel optimization.</li><li>Ensure all campaigns meet required campaign documentation requirements.</li><li>Drive advancement and adoption of responsive design for mobile optimization.</li><li>Ensure adherence to purchase order and invoice management procedures.</li><li>Drive continued adoption and consistent usage of Performance Marketing process tools by team and clients, including compliance with records retention.</li><li>Perform other duties and/or special projects as assigned, with a focus on exploring and integrating AI-driven innovations to improve overall marketing operations.</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Bachelor’s degree with overall 5+ years of experience with the financial services industry or Marketing or Digital experience; In lieu of degree overall 7+ years of experience with the financial services industry or Marketing or Digital experience</li><li>Minimum 5+ Years of email with hands-on experience of building and deploying commercial emails leveraging Agile methodology</li><li>Minimum 5+ years of experience with the enterprise email service platform: Zeta (Athena, Workflow Automation, Channel path optimization, Experience Builder, Propensity &amp; Moment scoring, etc)</li><li>5+ years of experience working with US stakeholders and cross-functional teams</li><li>Exposure to project management tool: COSMOS Workfront (or) MRM (or) Jira (or) ProofHub etc.</li><li>Strong project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to work under tight deadlines</li><li>Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint</li><li>Strong Change Management skills - effective communicator, good at holding "crucial conversations" with clients and internal partners</li><li>Strong written &amp; verbal communication skills</li><li>Good team player</li></ul>

Responsibilities:&nbsp; <ul><li>Responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with local and regional distributors, contractors within assigned territory</li><li>Manage opportunities and pipeline with discipline, including qualification, progression, forecasting, and follow-through to achieve revenue targets.&nbsp;</li><li>Build credibility with customers by sharing technical, product, and market knowledge throughout the sales process.&nbsp;</li><li>Communicate clearly and persuasively through customer discussions, proposals, and presentations.&nbsp;</li><li>Use CRM and sales tools consistently to maintain accurate accounts, pipeline, and forecast information.&nbsp;</li><li>Identify new customers and develop strategies for business development to Leads to convert into business</li><li>Proactively cover top contractors in assigned territory and educate them on company portfolio as influencers in the sales process</li><li>Implement channel strategies to drive sales growth and market share through regional distribution partners</li><li>Negotiate and manage agreements, pricing, and performance metrics with local distributors</li><li>Conduct regular business reviews with channel partners to assess performance and identify growth opportunities</li><li>Manage and update pipeline of opportunities in CRM system, ensuring all interactions are recorded and forecast is accurately maintained</li><li>Serve as the main point of contact for assigned accounts; route inquiries as necessary to Customer Success Reps</li></ul> Requirements: <ul><li>Five (5) or more years of experience in B2B &amp; B2C or technical sales roles.&nbsp;</li><li>Consultative selling and opportunity management skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Ability to identify customer needs and tailor solutions.&nbsp;</li><li>Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.&nbsp;</li><li>Disciplined use of CRM tools to manage pipeline, forecasts, and account activity.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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