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Sika

Specialty chemicals for bonding, sealing, damping

Vertical Market & Key Account Management Manager

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Approximately 5 or more years of corporate sales experience.
  • At least 5 years of consultative proposal sales and sales experience.
  • English proficiency sufficient for reading and writing email.
  • Strong communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills with customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Ability to analyze market, customer, and project information and develop and execute strategies.
  • A standard motor vehicle driver's license.
  • For non-Japanese applicants, business-level Japanese (JLPT N1 or at least N2) and work experience in Japan.

Responsibilities

  • Develop large, strategically important vertical markets that require specialized expertise and technical proposal capabilities.
  • Monitor and analyze market trends, construction plans, investment policies, customer needs, and market-specific technical requirements, performance requirements, and challenges; reflect findings in proposal strategies.
  • Collect early information on domestic projects by coordinating with domestic and international owners, operating companies, and global companies.
  • Set and advance medium- and long-term strategies, priority accounts, and priority projects in target vertical markets.
  • Build and maintain strategic relationships with major general contractors, major design firms, major developers, large enterprises, and global companies.
  • Develop ongoing networks with key account decision-makers, headquarters, design and technical departments, and other relevant departments; analyze customers’ decision-making structures, organizational developments, business strategies, investment plans, and business potential.
  • Plan and implement customer-satisfaction initiatives and build long-term partnerships; create business opportunities through coordination with Sika organizations in Japan and abroad and global key accounts.
  • Conduct specification proposal sales and design spec-in activities for Sika construction products and systems.
  • Develop solution proposals based on customer and market technical requirements, prepare competitive comparison materials and specification proposals, and present them.
  • Promote adoption of Sika products in customer-specific and standard specifications, design documents, and design guidelines.
  • Provide technical support using technical documents, validations, test data, and samples; coordinate product and method validation, construction guidance, and technical issue resolution with TM and TS.
  • Collect construction project information early, select and develop key projects, and plan strategies suited to each project phase, from planning and basic and detailed design through construction.
  • Secure specifications on priority projects, manage progress, and coordinate with internal departments; coordinate with technical, quality, and sales departments when issues arise.
  • Increase and achieve planned current-year on-top sales contributions from key projects with completed spec-in.
  • Coordinate with GTM-Construction Sales, GTM-Civil Sales, GTM-Concrete, Construction Marketing, TM, TS, I&S, and A&I.
  • Coordinate with sales and account teams to extend specifications to design firms, general contractors, and related customers.
  • Enter, update, manage, and share customer and project information in CRM Salesforce.
  • Develop and implement strategies, processes, and tools to improve productivity and operational efficiency; promote cross-selling and expand opportunities to adopt Sika solutions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Approximately 5 or more years of sales experience in architectural finishing materials or civil engineering materials.
  • Experience with design spec-in activities, specification proposals, or key account management.
  • Experience collecting construction project information, developing opportunities, and managing project progress.

About the Company

Sika

Specialty chemicals for bonding, sealing, damping

Sika is a global specialty chemicals company that develops and manufactures systems and products for bonding, sealing, damping, reinforcing, and protection in construction and other industries. Its offerings include adhesives, sealants, damping materials, reinforcement solutions, and protective coatings that join, seal, reinforce, and protect surfaces in projects. It differentiates itself with a wide geographic footprint (103 countries and hundreds of factories) and a decentralized structure that lets regional management tailor solutions, while focusing on sustainability and ongoing product development. Sika’s goal is to help transform the construction and transportation sectors toward greater environmental sustainability by delivering reliable chemical systems and services that improve build quality, efficiency, and durability.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Baar, Switzerland
Founded
1910

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