Key Account Sales Manager Opportunity

Location: Kawasaki, Japan

The company is a leader in high precision positioning
systems: Nano Positioning, Micro Positioning, Precision Motion and Automation
Systems.

The company’s product lines include piezoelectric-based
nano position-ers, motorized stepper and servo stages, and linear motor stages.
Their customers are the leading OEM’s and researchers in high tech fields such
as semiconductor, photonics, biomedical, aerospace, astronomy, metrology,
scientific instrumentation, and scientific research in microscopy and beam
lines.

Their culture is open, transparent, enthusiastic with a
general curiosity to solve emerging science and technology challenges.

If you have an open, inquiring mind and like to develop
solutions for first generation problems, you will be right at home.

The company is a pioneer by nature; quite frequently, we
are creating or building a device that will be applied for the first time, for
a process that will be leveraged for an entire marketplace.

They have a front-row-seat to innovation. Their customers
are building the future generation of earth-changing technologies. Their
products help build products that everyone has or knows.

They are a purposeful organization and collaborate to
solve their customers' problems.

Their engineering helps build success with their
customers.

We have an immediate opening for a Japan Key Account
Manager to grow our business in Japan.

The Key Account Manager will be based in Kawasaki, Japan.

What You Will Do:

·       In charge of key semiconductor,
electronics, and optical account customers and smaller territory customers and achieve
the order and sales targets.

·       Quote for the RFQ, and win new businesses
by optimizing the proposal to customers through collaborations with
related global functions.

·       Solve customers’ conflicts in Quality,
Cost, Delivery etc. with the support of application and service engineering team.

·       Manage the customer relationship topics
such as contracts, and organize events such as top management
meeting/roadshows/tech day with the support of the country head.

·       Prepare sales/order report, forecasts,
industry analysis and create account sales growth plans.

·       Communicate with PI’s global function teams
and follow up the deliveries to the customers.

·       BS or
MS degree in Engineering, Mechanical, Electrical or Physics, or BS or MSdegree in Business, Economics and other
liberal arts, or equivalent degrees.

·       10 years of sales and key account manager.

·       Logical thinking to work in the global
manufacturing company environment.

·       Excellent organizational skills including
attention to detail and multi-tasking skills, and good team member spirit.

·       Excellent verbal and written English
communication skills.

·       Experience with customer issue escalations
such as quality troubles, legal conflict etc.

·       Proficiency
in Microsoft Office and MS Dynamics or experience with a CRM, ERP to handle sales data for reporting purposes.

·       Understanding
of motion control, piezo-technology, photonics, or instrumentation is desirable.

·       The ability to travel up to 20% travel,
mainly domestic but also international.