Are Sales Manager – Emerging Enterprise (Mumbai)

Area Sales Manager – Mumbai

 

To generate and develop new equipment finance business through new and existing relationships and execute the same financial transactions for Mumbai & Vapi/ Silvasa/ Daman. The candidate will be consummate and credible sales professional selling financial solutions to reputed industrialist in the machine tool , plastics , wood working , packaging sectors . The role is focussed purely on generating new business and is suited to people who are ‘sales hungry’ and who can exploit their exceptional sales skills and vendor management with effective and successful results. An Ideal Candidate is who has spent 5-7 years in the Indian Banking/FI sector selling Equipment Finance and Leasing in the Industrial Sector. 

 

In case we find an exceptional Sales candidate, who has spent at least 2-3 years in Financing Industrial Equipment’s, we might consider his candidature. Total Experience required is 5-7 years and Exposure in selling Financial product in an NBFC will be an added advantage. 

 

Key Accountabilities:  

 

• SFSPL representation to potential Industrial clients through direct communication in face to face meetings, presentations, telephone calls and emails. 

• Generate enquiries through various suppliers of metal cutting, metal forming, plastics , genset and wood working equipment. 

• Manage existing customers assigned to you, for their future requirements as well as generate business through their references as well. 

• You will be expected to spend 60-80% of your time out of the office in meetings.  

• Actively and successfully manage the sales process: lead generation; credentials presentation; asking questions; solution presentation; negotiation; close; handover to the counterparty (internal team) and subsequent follow up and process management. 

• Possess drive, motivation and acute attention to detail in ensuring all sales opportunities to are captured and explored. 

• You will have individual responsibility for new business, and are expected to self manage; however, you will be part of a particularly enthusiastic, successful and expanding team. Support is also available from the Regional Sales Head . 

• Managing and maintaining a pipeline and ensuring all sales administration is complete and timely. 

• You will effectively interact with other departments. 

• Understanding customer requirements and working to find solutions for the same 

• Basic understanding of financials and capability to do early screening 

• Convincing risk team on the transaction risks and mitigants 

 

Relationships:  

 

• Vendor management – Industrial Equipment Vendors 

• Risk 

• Asset Management 

• Collections 

• Commercial and Legal  

 

The purpose of these relationships are to ensure smooth and clear interdepartmental communications in order to facilitate either a transaction or initiative through to successful activation and fulfilment.  

  

Personal 

• Change Agent - Advanced level has a positive outlook with a ‘can’ do approach and demonstrates flexibility. 

• Coach - Foundation tries new approaches to tasks and demonstrates a willingness to learn new ideas. 

• Organised planner - Advanced, sets milestones, reviews progress and takes appropriate corrective action. 

• Problem Solver - Advanced, presents ideas that stand up to informed challenge. 

 

Technical 

• Account Manager - Advanced, works to maximise and optimise all business opportunities within all allocated customers. 

• Business Developer - Advanced, pro-actively seeks our new business opportunities with target prospects and effectively converts them into prospects customers. 

• Commercial awareness - Foundation, takes a commercial position aligned with the organisation goal and their own personal targets to achieve the best possible outcome. 

• Data literate - Advanced, plan work with data in all required formats, MS office, the company’s proprietary software and manually on paper. 

• Networker - Advanced, maintains and develops a rich network of market related contacts that can be leveraged for maximum business benefit. 

• Sales Process – Advanced, contributes to the development of sales process ’best practice’. 

 

Experience:  

• 5-7 years working experience with a proven record of success – preferably in equipment financing especially in Industrial Equipment. 

 

• Essential:  

• It is essential for the individual to have at least 3-5 year external customer facing sales experience (including manufacturers and suppliers of the segment mentioned above).     

• Inspiration to your colleagues, tenacious, driven and highly motivated sales professional with enthusiasm for growth.   

• Firmly believe that fun and great business go hand in hand. 

 

• Preferable:  

• Experience of selling different asset types in B2B financing. Experience of working small value transaction and high numbers of transactions through manufacturer /suppliers.  

• Proven success in your sales ability and demonstrable full knowledge of the sales process. 

• Confident negotiator and ability to ‘close the deal’. 

• Strong client management skills and ability to keep promises. 

• Capable of hands on problem-solving, with ability to generate ideas and solutions. 

• A positive and determined approach to researching and analysing new business opportunities. 

• Ability to use own initiative and pay close attention to detail. 

• Ability to cope with competing demands and to prioritise tasks. 

• Strong communication skills in all forms including written, oral, email, telephone and presentation. 

• Excellent organisational and time management skills. 

• A positive attitude to dealing with people. 

• Capable of working independently, and having responsibility as an individual. 

• Ability to work across many different cultures and nationalities. 

• Honesty, integrity, initiative and creative approach to problem solving. 

 

Make your mark in our exciting world at Siemens! 

This role is based in Mumbai.

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