About the Job

Customer service Manager: Sales and marketing - Refers to the assistance and support provided to customers before, during, and after their purchase or interaction with a company's products or services. It involves addressing customer inquiries, resolving problems or issues, and ensuring customer satisfaction. As a Agile Service Manager participant, the primary goal will be to build positive relationships with customers, enhance their overall experience, and maintain their loyalty to the business with respect to the sales and marketing responsibilities in Customer Service roles organization the aim is to promote and sell products or services to customers. While your sales activity will be primarily focuses on the tracking and execution of inquiries logging and closure, Generation of RFQ and follow up for PO for our products and services, to facilitate the process of selling. While the marketing encompasses a broader set of activities that create awareness, generate leads, and facilitate sales conversions, and monitor the KPI's of the sales and marketing group for world wide activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Responding to customer inquiries: Addressing customer questions, concerns, and requests promptly and effectively through various communication channels such as phone, email, live chat, or in-person.
• Problem-solving: Identifying and resolving customer issues, complaints, or technical difficulties in a courteous and efficient manner, aiming to exceed customer expectations.
• Providing product or service information: Offering detailed and accurate information about products or services to help customers make informed purchasing decisions.
• Handling transactions: Assisting customers with purchases, refunds, exchanges, or any other financial transactions, ensuring accuracy and security
• Maintaining customer records: Updating and managing customer databases or CRM systems to keep track of customer interactions, preferences, and history for personalized service. Familiar with CRM software, Odoo, Sales Force or applicable systems.
• Managing customer feedback: Actively seeking and collecting customer feedback, both positive and negative, and using it to improve products, services, or processes.
• Escalating complex issues: Identifying situations that require higher-level support or specialized knowledge and escalating them to appropriate departments or supervisors.
• Maintaining the company forecasts to the AOP, providing revenue reporting and information weekly, monthly quarterly. Work with the VP on the success models, presentations, sales analysis and variance to sales as and when required.
• Market research and analysis: Conducting research to understand target markets, customer needs, competitors, and industry trends to identify opportunities and inform sales and marketing strategies.

GROUP ACTIVITY

• Lead generation: Collaborating with the sale teams, and distributors towards and executing strategies to attract potential customers and generate qualified leads through various channels such as advertising, content marketing, social media, events, and referrals.
• Product/service promotion: Supporting marketing campaigns, messaging, and materials (e.g., advertisements, brochures, websites) to effectively communicate the value proposition and benefits of products or services.
• Supporting Sales presentations and learning negotiation skills and practices: Engaging with potential customers, delivering persuasive sales presentations, addressing objections, and negotiating terms to close deals and achieve sales targets.
• Relationship building: Building and maintaining relationships with customers, partners, distributors, or other stakeholders to foster long-term loyalty and repeat business.
• Sales forecasting and planning: Analyzing sales data, market trends, and customer insights to forecast future sales, set targets, and develop sales strategies and plans.
• Customer relationship management (CRM): Utilizing CRM systems to track customer interactions, manage leads, and optimize sales and marketing efforts.
• Collaboration with other departments: Collaborating with product development for customer sample support, and other internal teams to gather insights, align strategies, and ensure a seamless customer experience.

Tactical and Indirect Responsibilities:

• Support the sales team in quote to customers & help follow up on status & close orders
• Order entry and acknowledgement
• Work with internal team to support sample requests. Follow up with customers on status of samples, and work with the sales team to convert them into orders
• Work with production, planning and control to schedule shipment. Work with customer & internal teams to pull in where necessary
• Support the sales team on weekly reports and updates. Prepare material for the weekly revenue calls, as well as funnel reports
• Help the sales & Marketing VP with price book updates, and in maintaining price book and the distribution of price books to channel partners.
• Support the team in organizing trade shows

Qualification Guidelines

Minimum Education

• Degree in Engineering or equivalent

Minimum Experience

• 5 years work experience in a similar role. Overall min 10 years experience in Technical Sales or Product/Sales engineering role.
• Strong focus on building customer relationships, and proven ability to support sales team to grow business.
• Experience in the Semiconductor industry would be an advantage or worked with a MNC, or Global Fortune 500 company.