The posting
Function
Head of Operations and Internal sales
Function assigned to Functional Area
Production
Sales
Function assigned to Product Organisation or Market Unit
If applicable: OEM Channel only
ASSIWELL Metal Hoses
Function assigned to Department
Operation Excellence
Responsibilities
Function Summary
Playing a central and crucial role within the company and the ASSIWELL department, ensuring that the internal sales team under your supervision acts as an indispensable link between the customer and the various departments, such as Engineering, Procurement, Production, External Sales, etc.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day tasks of the internal sales team under your supervision, lead customer development initiatives and provide excellent service to ensure customer satisfaction.
You will be responsible to lead the production leader to reach the monthly target and levelling up the efficiency of production; side to that, it’s required also to develop the production setup.
Core Responsibilities (Tasks & Duties)
Leadership
Performs as a leader and mentor, establishing agreement among teams and building support for organizational directions – attracts, develops and promotes talents.
Leads and develops the teams and ensures employee satisfaction, preventing and managing people turnover
Active participation in department related Sales and Engineering Meetings as well as in the Leader Internal Sales (LIS) team
Strategy
Responsible for the implementation of the operational sales strategy.
Give input on market and customer development and trends
Implementation of the customer strategy in line with the ASSIWELL strategy to secure business opportunities, improving revenue, market share, margin and costs
Implement strategic tasks
Ensures the application of established business processes and provides input for optimization.
Analyzing internal workload and ensuring proper balance between resources, as well as set-up of back-ups
Operational business
Aligns the organizational structure fits the group directives
Performs change management whenever necessary together with permanent process improvements throughout the Internal Sales and Production:
Operational management of ASSIWELL customers
Execute the price strategy including negotiation with assigned customer
Follow-up and support of critical business/ Escalation
Execution of customer and tasks assignments
Processing all contractual documents according to RACI
Dashboard proactive control and management across the team, granting correct OTD, preventing critical situations with customers and avoiding service level downturn
Ensures team’s capabilities for incoming/outbound phone calls from/to existing and potential customers for: customer advice, promotion of products/solutions of the A+P product groups, making aware customers of the full range of our services, complaints handling
Ensures team’s correct order processing into ERP as well as for Contracts handling and data quality
Monitoring
Ensures proper interaction of the team with GQS & OP Teams according to defined processes
Ensures proper interaction of the team with Production to ensure on time-delivery, right quality and quantity
Monitoring frame contracts
Monitoring No mover
Checking production status
Be present at least 4 days in production
Collaborate and lead production to develop
Collaborate with procurement team to have material availability
Develop cost efficiency via production
Develop 5S concept and lean management
Communication
Implementation of a high level of internal and external communication
Training / Education
Do regular self-evaluation and define concreate educational actions in alignment with the superior
Business development
Execute and follow-up of sales initiatives in alignment
with the Head of ASSIWELL
Participation in regular engineering and
project management meetings
Network / Relations
Building a strong network with other teams and departments within the organization to learn from each other, exchange ideas and best practice experiences
Networking, social selling (internal/ external)
Education / Certifications
Technical education followed by further education in business administration or commerce
Professional Experience
3+ years’ experience in internal sales
Leadership experiences
Internal Sales experience with technically demanding solutions/products
Production know how
Technical Knowledge Skills & Abilities
Leadership & coaching skills
Technical & sales know-how concerning industrial products
Ability to understand technical drawings
Experience in offer-, order handling & calculations based on customer inquiries
Knowledge of IT-Tools (MS Office, Sales Tools)
Occasionally traveling in specific cases to/within customers/A+P offices
Languages
Fluent local language (written & oral)
Business fluent in English and German
Additional European languages (French and Italian) are an asset
Personal Core Competencies (Soft Skills Focus)
Team-builder, acts integrating
Self-driven
Reliable
Customer-oriented & sophisticated
Good communication skills
Persuasive
Required Working Model
Hybrid (approx. 75-85 % onsite and home office)
Possible Career Path
Head of production for other plants
Head of Assiwell



