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Philips
Job Title
Assistant Manager- Sales- (Guwahati/Kolkata)
Job Description
Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.
But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.
The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.
In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better
Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.
You are responsible for
- Develops, maintains and improves relations with existing and potential customers in the assigned district/area
- Responsible for sales of the assigned portfolio of products within an assigned geographic territory, negotiating with clients, generating leads, qualifying prospects and managing sales of products and services
- Achieves established revenue growth expectations within assigned territory, and achievement of monthly/quarter/annual selling out target in his/her area.
- Develops and executes territory business plans driving product usage, brand recommendation (MOR, Most Often (Recommended), to meet and exceed direct sales targets
- Partners with inside sales and marketing teams to optimize area coverage. Understands and selects the right promotional tactics to optimize sales, responsible for maximizing promotions
- Conduct monthly/quarterly/annual business review with in his/her respected area
- Focus on optimized product mix (push sales/volume)
- Ensure orders are collected and Turnover targets are reached
- Commercially co-responsible for developing business partnership with customers, focusing on developing consultative sales partnerships with the customers
- Sell according to prices agreed by account management, and in accordance with commercial policy
- Limited negotiation for mixed and decentralized accounts
- Ensures queries are solved effectively balancing service and cost
- Monitor customer stock situation, effectively manage “out of stock” situations, and monitors customer overdues.
- Drives continuous improvements applying LEAN
- Behavioral: Daily demonstration of the highest level of Philips Leadership competencies and behaviors
To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following
- MBA with a specialization in Sales and Marketing
- Minimum 3-4 years of General Trade Channel Experience
- Experience & knowledge of channel sales
- Ideal candidate should have experience of leveraging on existing channels & setting up new channels to reach the set objectives.
- Should possess extensive experience in at Distribution/Channel Management
- Candidates having experience in the FMCG industry (preferred – cosmetic channel)
- Good inter-personal skills
- Strong in Data Analytics and MS office
How we work at Philips.-
Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.
Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.
Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There’s a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.
Why should you join Philips?
Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.