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Purpose of Job
The Manager Sales is mainly responsible for growing Sasol's chemical business in the US Metalworking/lubrication (MWL) market through sales of Sasol's differentiated and specialty products. The role is part of a global team of Sales Managers collectively focused on delivering market specific strategies and earnings.
Key Accountabilities
• Develop/manage relationships with assigned customers and key players in the US market.
• Use these relationships to drive sales.
• Input into the optimisation of sales volumes, prices, and contribution margin for sales into the MWL sector and other technical markets.
• Deliver sales to support growth targets and budgets based on acquired identified market opportunities.
• Input into the global strategy to penetrate the metalworking and lubricants market/ technical formulations market areas as appropriate. Help to align Sasol products, systems, assets and resources to execute defined strategies.
• Assist with uncovering and reporting on market trends that will be used to drive and prioritize development of products and processes to support growth.
• Support the process of gaining market information that will be used to justify new Sasol assets, technologies, or capacities.
• Work with Senior Manager Sales to negotiate/execute/manage contracts with Customers, Distributors, Agents, Consultants etc.
Formal Education
Working Experience
- 8+ years' experience in chemical industry with 2+ of those years with experience in Metalworking & Lubricants
Required Personal and Professional Skills
•Sales experience; selling chemicals
• MWL industry specific knowledge (products, applications, customers, competitors)
• Analytical skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, broad leadership skills
• Ability to work under pressure, to prioritize and to control the workload
• Willingness to travel (40-60%) including occasional international travel
• Customer-, service- and solution-oriented personality (e.g. self-motivation, delivering high quality solutions and services, demonstrating flexibility)
• User skills for IT modules corresponding to Sales tasks
Sasol (USA) Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, as well as any other characteristic protected by applicable law, regulation or local ordinance. For more information about your rights under the law, see http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
Sasol treats work-authorized job applicants equally in recruiting and hiring without regard to their citizenship status or national origin unless required by law, regulation, executive order, government contract, or determination by the Attorney General. Please note Sasol will not sponsor, obtain, and/or petition for temporary visa status (for example, E, F-1, H-1, H-2, L, B, J, or TN) for candidates for this position and/or personnel hired for this position.
