Senior Business Development Executive (FMCG Taiwanese Market)

Overview of the role

You will be responsible for targeting new companies and organisations across the corporate territory in Taiwan, whilst based in Hong Kong. To be a successful candidate, you should be a highly self-motivated sales professional with a proven track record for selling in the business-to-business industries. You’ll have the tenacity, drive, commercial awareness and persuasiveness to find the right contacts, understand the client’s issues, and match and apply the benefits in your solution. You will often need to involve several stakeholders, both internally and externally, so strong networking and organization skills as well as an understanding of customers’ purchasing dynamics are a must.

Key responsibilities

• Generate sales with new clients in the corporate territory, working with clients within the FMCG sector. Client industries include (but not exclusive to): Consumer Appliances, Consumer Electronics, Food and Beverages, Beauty & Personal Care, Retailing, Travel & Tourism, etc. This role targets large, multinational companies and companies who need consumer data to help them make strategic decisions
• Identify key sponsors, influencers and decision makers at target companies and ensure that you understand their roles and objectives, and that they understand the benefits and applications of using data.
• Create a sales plan on how to reach sales targets and ensure implementation of the plan
• Research a strong prospect list
• Take ownership of your personal sales targets
• Develop your new clients so they know how to use their online service to ensure renewal contracts and opportunities to increase contract values

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Business Studies
• At least 2 to 5 years of outstanding personal sales track record, preferably in the Taiwanese market.
• Experience in market research, information services or other data related B2B industries
• Proven experience of selling to large multi-national organisations
• Familiarity and comfortable with cold calling
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Intelligent, able to solve problems, and react positively to change
• Tenacity, drive, resilience and commercial awareness
• A targets-driven approach to work
• Experience in strategic market information sales
• Self-motivated and organised
• Fluency in English and Mandarin to a business level, both written and verbal is required
• At least 10-20% travel to Taiwan will be required

Benefits

International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office, dealing with our 16 offices worldwide daily.

A nurturing culture promoting flexibility and accountability: Providing a culture for ambitious team members to grow in their career having appropriate work-life balance is critical in our values. We offer flexible hours, hybrid work from home and office as well as 15 working days from anywhere in the world. We also focus on productivity by having rules such as free-meeting Fridays and shorter working hours in the summer on Fridays.

Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.

Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.