Manager, Sales Administration, Hub Apac

**Manager, Sales Administration, Hub APAC**
**Department : Sales Strategy & Business Development (BP67020)**

**Job Overview**
UD Trucks is known for our pioneering technologies and products within the commercial automotive industry. Responsible for ensuring consolidated order planning of truck deliveries to various regions are well accounted for including logistics, invoicing instructions, order planning/ order book/ order intake/ invoices/ inventory follow up and estimates for Business Controller.

**Responsibilities and Duties**
- Responsible for consolidating all order information to track lead time information and trucks in transition to end user.
- Change management due to agile changing environment and situations for sales and order planning, and provide warnings and advice to regions.
- Secure order planning activities in accordance to target delivery date through working level coordination via cross functional teams to production and regional S&OP personnel.
- Provide solutions for Hub APAC S&OP activities including delays, order swapping, cancellation etc. to mitigate and secure replacement slots to fulfil demand order.
- Create and develop a demand program for Hub APAC to optimize allocated program to achieve sales target and profitability.
- Chair the Demand Review Meeting for Hub APAC, consolidate sales summary report by region with respective order intake, order book, invoices and inventories at hub/ regional/ importer level.
- Act as the point of contact for Hub APAC to coordinate on truck logistics related matters and ensure effective information flow between factories, order planning, delivery and invoicing.
- Consolidate all Letters of Credit (LC) opening requests and organise the process according to UD protocol, including secure LC confirmation from trade finance and ensuring timely shipment.
- Consolidate monthly market share report and seek to analyse the trends in the market against orders place per market.
- Evaluate insights on information on commercial vehicle market trend across regions and segmentation to internal stakeholders to strategize and support Hub APAC sales targets.
- Analyse the volume, product mix and price per region/ market for estimations including market retail information.

The above list of job duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and may be change reasonably based on situation
Job descriptions shall be regularly reviewed to ensure they are an accurate representation of the job

**Required Education/ Competencies/ Experiences**
- University Degree/ Masters in Business Administration or relevant faculty
- Minimum of 5 to 7 years of experience in logistics/ order to export processes, preferably in automotive industry.
- Understanding of Oceania and Asia import procedures.
- Existing experience and business acumen of Japanese truck brand in Oceania and Asia will be a major plus.
- Customer orientation, well-structured and organized.
- Team player, high integrity, conscientious, meticulous, and on time delivery of tasks.
- Ability to manage and drive a wide range of diverse issues.
- International experience and multi-cultural competence.
- Fluent in English, both written and spoken. Any other additional Asian language will be a plus.

**About UD Trucks**

Part of the Isuzu group, UD Trucks is a global leading international commercial vehicle solutions provider headquartered in Japan. At UD Trucks, we are defining the next generation of smart logistics solutions through advanced innovations in automation, electro mobility and connectivity. UD Trucks develops, manufactures and sells a wide range of heavy, medium and light-duty trucks, operating in more than 60 countries across all continents. Our trucks and people go the extra mile for our customers and business partners, day in and day out.

We are an 8,000+ strong team of colleagues with 40 nationalities who bring diversity and passion in delivering our products and services. We trust each other, work collaboratively and embrace change. At UD Trucks, our purpose is Better Life - to make life better for people and the planet. We have developed a culture that promotes:
**Diverse and friendly culture** - Strong culture of diversity and inclusion, organizing annual events, daily activities and open communication platforms including various internal voluntary networks.
**Empowered growth** - Global exposure and growth opportunities across functions and countries through internal mobility system and self-driven career opportunities, building a learning organization by enabling self-managed learning supported by the UD Academy.
**Flexibility with trust**- We continue to fully support both remote working (where and when applicable) and flexible working hours, we actively encourage our colleagues to maintain a good work/life balance. You will have the autonomy and flexibility to split your working time between both our wonderful, modern and equipped HQ and remotely.

Be part of our journey to create Better Life for society