Sr Sales Manager, Japan, based Tokyo
IT&T& AI
Sr/ Sales Manager, Enterprise Sales (Direct High-Touch IC role), Japan
Key Accountabilities
Execute the Company’s sales strategies and achieve established sales quota in the assigned market by bringing new business opportunities in the market, identifying business opportunities through territory management, target account prospecting and profiling and conducting new prospect appointments.
Evaluate the customer’s requirements and provide a suitable sales solution
Provide effective sales presentations/product demonstrations to prospective customer management, including hosting Company site visits if necessary
Prepare appropriate sales order paperwork to ensure purchase order reflects appropriate configuration/ solution for customer. Manages the order process through established internal acceptance procedures to ensure sign-off by Sales, Production and Installation Depts
Maintain effective relationships with established customers by monitoring installed systems and developing strategies to maximize revenue opportunities through expansions and upgrades and additional systems
Provide the sales management team with accurate and timely reporting of activities including weekly and monthly sales forecasts, the status of the sales pipeline and results of prospecting activities
Provide routine updates to the Company’s sales database with account activity and status
Maintain a thorough on-going knowledge of all CX/CE software solutions, as well as industry trends
Provide ad hoc reports and performs assigned projects as needed
Act in accordance with the Information Security Policy and Information Management Policy and Privacy Policy
Requirements
People Specification
Direct sales experience within the enterprise software industry, selling complex software solutions to Enterprise/Commercial and/or strategic key customers in your area.
Demonstrate a proven track record of sales success with high dollar value technology products/solutions
Bachelor’s degree in business or technology or the equivalent
Able to prospect and identify business opportunities, conduct needs analysis and present and close solutions sales to targeted accounts
Have thorough knowledge of sales strategies and processes, with a working knowledge of telephony systems and products preferable.
Professional presentation and communication skills, both written and verbal in Japanese and English are required with the ability to penetrate and establish relationships with customer’s senior level executives
Must possess excellent negotiation and closing skills with the proven ability to qualify prospects from both an operational and financial standpoint.
You may have developed your strong sales experience from these potential companies:
ERP Software/Solution vendors : Orange, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards, etc.
CX/CE/Contact Center solutions vendors : Avaya, Genesys, Aspect , Zendesk, Nice, Interactive Intelligence etc.
CRM Software vendors : Oracle (Rightnow, Siebel, People Soft), SAP (Business Objects), Salesforce, Pegasystems
Consulting Companies: Accenture, Abeam, Bering Point, E&Y etc.
Solution Integrators: CTC Japan, IBM, MKI Japan, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Unisys, etc.
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Some of their interesting CX/CE solutions included (Please note that I might only state less than 5% of the features of what their software applications can do)
One of the features of their OpenCCaaS Software can support traditional Contact Center/Call Center solutions (Can be running on Cloud or normal on-site premises installation). Integrated with Cisco/Avaya Call Center system to help an Enterprise to manage their Call Center more efficiently. One example is to assign appropriate number of Human Call-Agents to handle the incoming and outgoing calls in the Call Center (obviously, you will not hire 1000 or put 500 human agents in the Call Center all 24 hours, right?)
Its Voice-of-Customer Analytics (VoCA) software application (which is integrated with standard Cisco/Avaya contact center systems) can continuously "listen, analyze, and act" on the ongoing situation between customers and call agents, and take appropriate action when something happens.
Intelligent Chatting Agent (the Chatbox usually appeared at the bottom right-hand corner of the webpage of a big company, banks/insurance/Telco, and it asks if you have anything you like to know about its company or product).
Conversational-AI (similar to the Chatbox stated above, but can also appear in Phone Apps/Webpage/Messaging Platform – You can ask the Chatbox using normal human slang/language like you are talking to a real humam)
Cloud based CRM software – some of the latest Cloud-CRM may also include API support to link with other Messaging Platform such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Facebook, Instagram, etc.
Intelligent-AI agent integrated with Omni-Messaging Platform which supports iMessage, Facebook, WhatsApp, IG, Google Messaging, normal SMS and Email.
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