Technical Sales Specialist

**Company Description**
Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve - providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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We are looking for an enthusiastic, talented and ambitious Technical Sales professional to help lead the identifying and closing of growth opportunities for our Oils & Chemicals offerings within existing customers across the Asia Pacific region; as well as maximising upsell during renewals in coordination with account managers across the Asia Pacific region.

The Technical Sales team is a key driver for sales execution and performance across existing accounts. You will be instrumental for the achievement of sales growth targets as well as the effective use of resources to achieve targets.

**Main Responsibilities**
- Product and sector expertise:

- Develop a deep understanding of the value of our Oils & Chemicals solutions to our customers and a good understanding of the Oils & Chemicals sector to support new business identification and customer retention.
- Act as an internal ambassador for the Oils & Chemicals business, supporting communication of product enhancements and market developments across the organisation and working with teams including sales, customer focus, customer solutions, marketing, research and consulting.
- Retention and proactive new business development:

- Partner with Regional Sales colleagues to broaden and deepen our Oils & Chemicals relationships within existing customer accounts, understand customer workflows and demonstrate how our Oils & Chemicals solutions can address them, identify unmet customer needs, and uncover new buying centres.
- Lead all aspects of the customer lifecycle by working with other functions to support onboarding, engagement, retention, and cross selling.
- Territory planning:

- Develop, regularly maintain, and own a sales plan for your territory. Identify key growth markets, needle moving opportunities, and risks within your existing portfolio to plan your time effectively and develop a sales strategy and tactics.
- Collaborate with other stakeholders to build and execute on your plan, including Regional Sales, other Product Sales colleagues, Customer Focus, Research, and Consulting.
- Product development collaboration:

- Work closely with the Product and Research teams to help shape the Oils & Chemicals product development roadmap based on customer feedback, your experience and knowledge of customer workflows, and relevant competitor intelligence.
- Support new Oils & Chemicals product and service development launches.
- Own the sales process:

- take responsibility for the following aspects of the sales process which include prospecting, qualification, and selling the value proposition at all levels
- collaborate with the regional Sales team by providing product sales support to the following aspects of the sales process which include, proposals pitching and technical & commercial negotiations,
- ensure all aspects of the sales process must be handled efficiently and fully documented.
- Accurate sales forecasting:

- Effectively manage the business pipeline to ensure accurate forecasting in Salesforce.

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**Qualifications**
- Have significant experience in client facing or Account Management roles.
- Demonstrate a deep knowledge of the Oils & Chemicals industry.
- Have an extensive commercial track record in developing clients and establishing a trusted advisor relationship.
- Be a self-motivated and energetic individual, a successful negotiator and results oriented.
- Have a proven track record in collaborating with different internal teams to achieve commercial success.
- Demonstrate outstanding judgment in resource utilisation and optimisation.
- Be passionate about growing the business and have a genuine interest in developing and growing yourself.
- Have an intellectual curiosity about how data and analysis solve critical business issues.
- Show effective organisational and planning skills with the ability to manage own workload effectively.
- Previous experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce would be an advantage.

**Additional Information**
WoodMackenzie is an equal oppo