Your role is to build and lead the purchasing and sales team covering the Asia market that will enable us to fulfil our client’s mission to become the world’s largest recycled plastics commodities company.
The mission of this role is to deliver profitable, strategic and repeatable growth by moving the region from reactive spot trading towards larger scale accounts that generate contracted business via solution-led commercial execution.
The Commercial Director will own the commercial direction and performance of Asia. This includes developing the regional commercial plan, prioritising strategic verticals, building supplier and buyer relationships, creating account plans, coaching the team, improving deal quality and ensuring the region is aligned with our client’s wider strategy.
This is not a desk-only leadership role. The successful candidate must be able to operate at senior level while staying close to the market, deals, customers, suppliers and team activity. They will be expected to create leverage by making the existing commercial team more focused, more capable and more valuable, rather than simply adding more headcount. This role is expected to actively develop strategic level accounts directly and transform them into long term value generating clients.
A strong career history as a successful salesperson and sales manager, you are a proven leader who has experience building high-performance sales teams in a commodity business.
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Core purpose: Lead Asia commercial growth and raise the value created by the existing commercial team.
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Key focus: Strategic accounts, contracted business, vertical focus, team performance, market development and First Choice execution.
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Must avoid: Becoming only a senior salesperson or only a people manager. This role must create scalable commercial leverage.
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Success looks like: Asia has clearer strategic priorities, stronger key accounts, higher-quality pipeline, better deal discipline and more repeatable GP.