Sales Leader, Life Science- Japan

Job Title : Sales Leader, Life Science- Japan

Location : WM Japan, 4-23-21 Ukima, Kita-Ku, Tokyo, Japan, 115-0051

Location Type : Hybrid

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When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid TechnologySolutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

This role will focus on :

Overall responsibility

Responsible for managing LS Sector team in Watson-Marlow Japan with tasks related to marketing, forecasting, solving customer related issues and continuous improvement in sales activities as whole team.

This role will focus on :

Drive sales growth in the LS within WMFTS Japan.

Drive growth through facilitation of vigorous customer strategy development, project planning, execution, and tracking.

Build customer relations through direct meetings in support of account managers to maintain good revenue increase for the organization.

Develop Process Industrial strategies to penetrate the market

Analyze and explore market trends; identifying new opportunities in assigned region

Direct price positioning and profit margin.

Create new strategies for marketing and monitoring QC and QA measures

Monitor and review company’s project activities and ensure that they are brought to completion within scheduled period and budget

Develop, articulate, and lead execution of long and short-term goals and strategies.

Construct and manage the budget around the business plan, own and report on your sector’s P&L.

Manage and drive team and individual performance development.

Coordinate with other teams like the marketing team to develop plans for launching new products, and implementation

Coordinate with other heads of departments, integrating objectives and ideas for organizational growth

Lead by example and develop an inclusive environment where diverse perspectives are accepted and encouraged.

Provide effective management to organization’s business activities that have to do with its strategic and financial growth

Ensure harmonious working environment

Responsible for training and mentoring staff; motivating them for effective performance for the general growth of the company

Champion initiatives to develop, improve, and resolve issues with critical processes and technologies

To be successful in this role, you will need :

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, or equivalent experience. This must be from an accredited university or college

Ability to work under pressure and tight schedule

Ability to identify any risk from customers and capable to do the right action immediately.

Strong analysis competence and communication skill including overseas internal people

Ability to identify new opportunities and exploit them to the benefit of the company

Creative thinking – The LS leader should possess the ability to develop and create new ideas, systems, and relationships for the success of the company

Decision making skills : He / she should have the ability to analyze information and evaluate results in order to make the best decision in solving problems

Planning skills : – The leader should have the ability to develop specific plans and goals to help in accomplishing tasks efficiently

Ability to tack complaints and resolve disputes and conflicts

Motivating skills : The LS leader should be able to encourage and build team spirit among staff, bringing about mutual respect and cooperation

He / she must have pleasant personality and display managerial and leadership abilities

To excel in this role, you should be

An experienced business unit manager of 8-10 years

A motivated leader engaged in building a motivated team and sustaining a positive work culture

A highly analytical and meticulous problem solver

Comfortable with working with a diverse group of people

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including :

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working arrangements
• A generous holiday allowance
• Three days’ paid volunteering leave
• Comprehensive private healthcare
• An enhanced retirement plan
• Life assurance
• Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include :

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Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.