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About You And This Role
As a Senior Sales Specialist at Dow Johannesburg, South Africa, you will be responsible for supporting account managers of small to medium size accounts for Dows Polyurethanes business. With your experience, youll also provide your support to large accounts and be accountable for non-selling processes and tasks inherent in the sales process including generating leads, outlining sales territories, managing sales analytics, fixing the technical problem of a customer, giving support on the phone to a customer, etc.
You will be accountable to maintain a high degree of knowledge on Polyurethane product lines along with understanding key markets in depth and acts as a resource to the business on competitive intelligence as well as maintain a consumption analysis on products purchased from polyurethane, Distributed Integrated System, and competition.
In line with our companys mission to become of the most customer-centric materials science company worldwide, your role will be key to foster customer satisfaction, deliver business results, develop forecasts on anticipated customer product consumption, and create and work within budget guidelines for region. You will be responsible for business strategy implementation within assigned region and develop a sales plan for assigned territory and provide needed data to Sales & Operating Teams to efficiently manage the business. As the companys goal is to continuously enhance our process, you will highly be involved in the continuous improvement in the area of overall productivity and efficiency along with effective management of sales terms and credit with assigned customers.
Responsibilities
- Achieve a high level of penetration at assigned customer base and to maintain strong relationships at all levels of customer organization
- Effectively utilize available tools such as strategic entertainment and management interface to build customer relationships in line with account plans and to develop strong multi-functional account teams to effectively interface with customers
- Utilize excellent sales skills to represent Dow to customers with effectively negotiate supply contracts and manage customer pricing strategically in line with business goals
- Deliver a high level of service to customers and effectively resolve any quality or service issues that arise
- Work with customers to define un-met needs and develop sales projects around commercial and developmental opportunities
- Enter and track opportunities using the CRM
- Successfully convert opportunities leading to sales growth
- Masters degree required, technical degree in Chemistry/Polymers or Chemical Engineering preferred.
- Fluency in English
- Great written and verbal communication skills.
- Execute against all job requirements while maintaining very high level of safety awareness.
- Bed knowledgeable on market trends within Consumer Solutions and other Dow businesses and have a deep understanding of Dows technology.
- Collaborate with sales related functions to build good teamwork.
- 5 years of technical sales or sales related experience
- Demonstrated experience managing existing business (negotiation, price management, issue resolution)
- Track record of hunting for and converting sales opportunities a plus
- Demonstrate high levels of motivation and deliver outstanding sales results
- No Relocation/Visa sponsorship is available for this role
We invest in you.
Dow invests in total rewards programs to help you manage all aspects of you: your pay, your health, your life, your future, and your career. You bring your background, talent and perspective to work every day. Dow rewards that commitment by investing in your total wellbeing.
Here are just a few highlights of what you would be offered as a Dow employee:
- Equitable and market-competitive base pay and bonus opportunity across our global markets, along with locally relevant incentives.
- Benefits and programs to support your physical, mental and emotional well-being, to help you get the care you need...when you need it.
- Competitive retirement program that may include company-provided benefits, savings opportunities, financial planning and educational resources to help you achieve your long term financial-goals.
- Become a Dow shareholder through various employee stock programs.
- Opportunities to learn and grow through training and mentoring, work experiences, community involvement and team building.
- Workplace culture empowering role-based flexibility to maximize personal productivity and balance personal needs.
- Global Paid Time Off (PTO) policies:
- Paid time off for new parents (birthing and non-birthing, including adoptive and foster parents).
- Paid time off to care for family members who are sick or injured.
- Paid time off to support volunteering and Employee Resource Groups (ERG) participation.
About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines global breadth; asset integration and scale; focused innovation and materials science expertise; leading business positions; and environmental, social and governance leadership to achieve profitable growth and help deliver a sustainable future. The Company's ambition is to become the most innovative, customer centric, inclusive and sustainable materials science company in the world. Dow's portfolio of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings and silicones businesses delivers a broad range of differentiated, science-based products and solutions for its customers in high-growth market segments, such as packaging, infrastructure, mobility and consumer applications. Dow operates manufacturing sites in 31 countries and employs approximately 37, 800 people. Dow delivered sales of approximately $57 billion in 2022. References to Dow or the Company mean Dow Inc. and its subsidiaries. For more information, please visit www.dow.com or follow @DowNewsroom on Twitter.
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Dow is committed to equal opportunities in employment. We encourage every employee to bring their whole self to work each day to not only deliver more value, but also have a more fulfilling career. Further information regarding Dow's equal opportunities is available on www.dow.com.
