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Sales Manager

Key Facts

Remote From: 
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
English

Other Skills

  • People Management
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Communication
  • Leadership
  • Executive Presence
  • Mentorship
  • Goal Setting
  • Coaching
  • Problem Solving

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Deep technical knowledge of semiconductors with emphasis on logic devices; FPGA experience preferred.
  • 8+ years of semiconductor (logic devices) sales experience with global business exposure, including overseas assignments and experience in foreign-owned organizations.
  • Strong understanding of semiconductor technologies (device, design, system) and experience in Automotive, Medical, Industry, Data Centre, Networking and consumer markets.
  • Excellent English communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to lead cross-cultural teams and collaborate with global partners.

Requirements:

  • Lead and manage all aspects of the area’s business (goals, reporting, product allocations, pricing); develop a vision and roadmap to align the organization, and drive output across Sales, Technical Support, Marketing and QA; work with corporate HQ and distributors to remove roadblocks and maintain urgency.
  • Establish a culture of ownership and high performance through goal setting, execution, metrics, PDCA, and cross-functional collaboration; mentor staff and build executive relationships with key customers.
  • Develop growth plans for top accounts, opportunity mapping, competitive analysis, and new account development; engage with FAEs to build technical and business credibility; drive design registrations and design wins; improve forecast accuracy.
  • Establish clear partitioning between channel and Altera sales teams; sponsor distributor development programs and engage distributor management to set goals and measure output.

Job description

Job Details:

Job Description:

Overall Responsibility

Sales manager provides leadership and management of the direction, planning, and execution of sales activities for expanding its sales achievement in area of Military, Industry, Automotive, Medical, Data Centre, Networking and Consumers.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leadership

    • Works with Taiwan Management and corporate headquarters as appropriate to manage all aspects of the responsible area’s business: goals and reporting, product allocations, leveraging resources, pricing.

    • Develop a vision of what the Sales team should be and how we can better penetrate the market

    • Provides roadmap/business plan for area to ensure everyone is in alignment.

    • Pull entire organization forward and drives output from other teams outside of Sales: Technical support, Marketing and QA.

    • Works closely with corporate headquarters and distributors to eliminate potential roadblocks to business development.

    • Will need to be high energy and highly passionate about the job and create a high sense of urgency

    • Command respect throughout the company and with customers

    • Takes ownership of corporate policies and define own policies where absent

    • Lead and drives team to higher standards

  • People Management

    • Establish a culture of ownership by setting goals, driving execution, monitoring metrics, and adjusting  (PDCA)

    • Facilitate and foster consistent communication and good working relationship between the Sales team and other teams across the Company worldwide

    • Builds executive relationship with key customers and mentors staff to do same.

    • Establish self as trusted mentor by coaching, directing, and helping team with career planning

    • Lead team to successfully execute against a plan to sell all products/services.

  • Sales Promotion

    • Develop vision of responsible area growth deeper penetration into fewer accounts and continuously communicates process to Sales

    • Generate Business plan for top key accounts including opportunity mapping, competitive analysis, and organization mapping.

    • Recognizes area potential and expands business into new customer base to establish new accounts in area

    • Develop deep understanding of customers’ markets, competencies, obstacles

    • Engage with FAE to build technical and business credibility with customers’ management

    • Drives Design Registrations and Design Wins to Regional VP’s defined target.

    • Measures forecast accuracy base upon weekly revenue and account commitments.

    • Demonstrate exceptional concern for solving customer problems.

    • Coaches Sales to develop strategic plans and tactical sales strategies for deepening  ’s relationship with customers.

    • Coach team to hunt and persuade customers

  • Channel Management

    • Establish clear partitioning between channel Sales and Altera Sales teams

    • Assure sales proficiency in the Distribution channel by sponsoring development programs

    • Engage with distributor management to set goals and measure output of distributor sales teams

Work Location: Taipei, Taiwan

Qualifications:

Qualifications

  • Business & Technical knowledge

    • Deep understanding of semiconductor sales process

    • FPGA experience will be highly preferred.

    • Understanding of semiconductor technologies. (Device Technology. Design Technology, System Technology)

    • Understanding of Industry, Automotive, Medical and consumers Business.

    • More than 8 years of Semiconductors (Logic Devices) business experiences.

  • Global Business experiences.

    • Experiences of working for foreign owned organization or having oversees assignment

    • Experiences of conducting global business.

    • Worked closely with people having variety of cultural backgrounds

  • Communication

    • Logically communicate with variety of stakeholders to drive the best solution and conclusion.

    • Good command of English

    Job Type:

    Regular

    Shift:

    Shift 1 (Taiwan)

    Primary Location:

    Taipei, Taiwan (Remote)

    Additional Locations:

    Posting Statement:

    All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

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