Senior Regional Sales Manager

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Role:

• Responsible for pushing long-term development for Abbott products in Region through distribution channels and brands building in stores with a leading high-performance sales team in territory in charged.
• Responsible for achieving monthly and quarterly sales target, market share and sales efficiency performance in Region with managing people and DA to ensure purposes of customer, consumer and user in store.
• Percentage contribution of scope: 50% Sales Management, 30% Customer Management and 20% Human Resource Management.  

Accountabilities:

• Understand consumer, shopper, retailer insight and channel landscape to reflect into building sales strategy, making business plan and coaching people.
• Use understanding of external and internal factors, under the direction, guidance from Abbott to build customized business plan plan of year/quarter/month for the territory assigned, based on clear and market – fit building blocks, source of growth.
• Collaborate across functions to contribute to an implementation of strategy and activity plan.
• Directly involve and support DSM to design/implement/measure their yearly/quarterly/monthly business plan in each DA under territory in charged.
• Define market potential, issue and opportunity for Abbott category/brand in specific area and design distribution plan and then cascade this plan to the team for execution.
• Directly involve into set up/develop/evaluation or terminate DA in territory, base on  process from Abbott.
• Establish a sales team with high performance by building capability for each of employee level and channel development management.
• Conduct coaching conversation with individual employees frequently, included in Se./DSM, SR and provide feedback on real-time developments and train employees in the field to help employees understand and apply SWOT at each point of sell (POS) in order to achieve an effective sales plan.
• Adopt an enterprise approach to regional management, paying attention to cross-departmental activities and influence to regional plan.
• Play a business consultant to distributions for maximizing ROI, supporting strategies and Abbott priorities.
• Negotiate with regional distributors for a better local development strategy.
• Ensure good execution of each DA's business plan through understanding business realities and planning sales execution by region.
• Maintain an engaged and growing sales team.
• Manage regions with targeted sale contribution with the high ownership mindset and excellent execution.

• Apply well tools, applications for data management, sales performance and employee information management.

Requirement:

• Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 5 years of Sales experience in Nutrition industry or FMCG business, at least 3-year experience at Manager level with significant achievements.
• Persuasive Selling
• Customer Management
• Shopper-based category management
• Forecasting & Supply Chain
• People management
• Customer Business Planning
• Pop Excellence in Execution
• Strategic Negotiation
• MS Office, Power BI is a good point

     

The base pay for this position is

N/A

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Sales Force

     

DIVISION:

ANI International Nutrition

        

LOCATION:

Vietnam > Ho Chi Minh City > Flemington Tower

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Not specified

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)