Sales Professional

About Umicore

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we apply our specialist knowledge to offer materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. With ambitions like this, imagine what you could do?

About Support Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

What you will be doing

With BL’s guideline, be responsible for local sales & marketing as well as coordination between Umicore and customers for PMC/EOM/Brazetec businesses in Korea to achieve commercial gains in terms of turnovers and order quantities

1. Sales, marketing and development :

• Maintain strong commercial relationships with customers and sustainable position
• Create new account for additional contribution of turnover
• Coordinate optimal communication between BL and customers
• Manage sales support
  • deliveries, complaints, administration, K-REACH inquiries etc.
  • Compliance with K-REACH, K-CCA and Occupational Safety and health
• Investigate and develop new opportunities
  • get a deep understanding for the market movements, customer’s structure and internal decision making process, as well as the competition status

2. Reporting of market information

• Business overview in regular reports
• Market review of customers and competitors
• Customer visit reports

3. Strategic planning & development

• Do analyse import & export statistics.
  • Gathering market info/data on current and future price evolutions and key material trends.
• Build up a relationship with end users to have overall view on the market
• Participate on key conferences to learn market stream & prospect

Who we are looking for

• Over 5 year experience in chemical or relevant industry
  • Working experience in multinational company is a plus 
• Proven chemical and commercial background is highly preferred 
• Chemical compliance experience has advantage 
• Good verbal and written English communication skills required 

What we offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?

If our pioneering approach can make us a leader in sustainability, IMAGINE WHAT YOU COULD DO