Job Title : Area Sales Manager, Lab Products Division, EEMEA

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Company Location Dubai, AE

Posted Date : 04/18/2017

Job Description :

Job description
Job Description
Area Sales Manager, Lab Products Division, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa
Location: Dubai
Job Summary
As a key member of the LPD Emerging Markets, Near & Middle East Team, the Area Manager (ASM) will be responsible for the strategic leadership, direction and development of the LPD business in the GCC Central-Egypt-Israel Region. The ASM will be in charge for identifying new commercial opportunities and driving growth across LPDs business activities in the Region.
Through a strategic approach to market and business development, the ASM will significantly shape the future development of LPDs Region strategy by analyzing the market and advising LPD of development opportunities. He/she will be committed to customer service excellence and will take the lead role in developing and managing channel and distributor partnerships (Tier 1 and Tier 2) as well as Direct and Global Account relationships in implementing the Company’s goals.
Key Duties And Responsibilities
Create and implement Divisional business development strategies and plans. This will involve working closely with colleagues and teams to ensure business development strategies meet and exceed the demands of the market.
Create and develop commercial opportunities to increase sales volumes across all LPD product lines. This will apply to both existing and new clients with whom the ASM will target, initiate and develop business relationships.
Works to meet Business goals, such as budget set by Management for each segment of the Thermo LPD product portfolio.
Responsible for capturing opportunities in the CRM system, establish reliable sales forecasts, MBR/QBR reports and report on a regular basis, channel partner and customer activity.
Monitor competitor’s activities and develop measures to counteract threats from competition.
Support dealer and distributor network including organizing product trainings, price positioning, and product offerings up to contract negotiations. Take the lead on constructing robust and successful proposals that secure new businesses and long term client relationships for LPD.
Facilitating communication between the various external and internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance with the procedures established by the company, optimizing the administrative routines and feasibility analysis for effective decision making.
Ensure that Management and Colleagues regularly receive inputs on market opportunities, trends, desired features and functionality needed by customers to ensure these are considered in product design and customer service enhancements.
Take active role on behalf of LPD in supporting cross-divisional activities to promote the overall Company’s value proposition; closely interact cross divisionally in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Middle East Leadership Team to leverage the full company capabilities.
Coordinate the support from the Product Specialist, and Marketing support team on the actions and strategies identified by the ASM/Company as necessary, in order to maintain or improved the region order performance
Supports commercial marketing in the definition of local/regional marketing programs to generate interest from current customers and to interest potential new customers to the Thermo Scientific brand.
Provides input to the Product Managers and EM Sales to ensure that the necessary market trends, desired features and functionality needed by customers are considered in product designs or enhancements.
Maintains regular contact with all clients in the market area to ensure high levels of client satisfaction as well as accurate understanding of market conditions.

Benefits Offered : As per UAE law