Senior Sales Manager – Personal Care, India

Ashland India Private Ltd

Senior Sales Manager – Personal Care, India
Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious?

Are you always solving?

Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a
Senior Sales Manager – Personal Care, India
to join our personal care business. This will be an onsite position. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and commercial function. This position will report to the
General Manager- Personal Care
.

• The Senior Sales Manager – Personal Care, India will be Responsible for overseeing the South of Asia, SoA (countries including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal) commercial/sales/distribution operations. Deliver business target & budget for personal care market & act as sales head & supervisory role for Iocal sales & commercial support person.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop SoA business development plan & execute market strategies with coordination with Regional Business Director, regional and global marketing; ensuring alignment of regional market/business strategies to meet or exceed revenue/profit vs budget.
• Manage personal care & household business & customers' interface in SoA, identify & deliver new business opportunities to achieve higher growth than market rate. Meeting expectation from regional/global management on new development/opportunities delivery target in term of timeline, quantity & quality of the opportunities to ensure business sustainability & growth
• Manage salesperson downline, distributors & direct accounts, internal interface (supply chain, planners, logistic, regulatory, etc.) to ensure sales process & operation smoothness, conduct regular reviews to ensure business targets are on track

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Degree in chemistry or related discipline, min 15 years of sales/business experience in personal care industry.
• 5-7 years min. experience in matrix organization or multinational business organization & involved in multi-countries sales operations, excellent communication skill, market knowledge & understanding of personal care industries & customers' landscape

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.