Sales Director

Location:

Shanghai, SH, CN

Req ID: 3881

Job Type:

Edgewell is a global team of over 6,000 visionaries, doers and makers. Our secret is people, and we have an inspiring and collaborative global force of them. Our portfolio of over 25 brands touches lives in more than 50 countries by making useful things joyful. Together, we reimagine good mornings and endless summers, strive for more sustainable ways to beautify and bond, and do it all with not only confidence but determination.

Sales Director

Permanent, Shanghai, China

Attractive salary & benefits

Let's Talk About You

You’re ambitious, but you want a career with purpose—we love that. You’re up for a challenge and ready to write the next chapter of your career story with a great group of encouraging colleagues. You want to make your mark and let your personality shine. Well, if you’re interested in our sales director role, this might be your next step! This is a great choice for an ambitious doer, maker, and innovator, especially since it requires a team spirit focus. While it may sound cliché, we’re looking for a someone with strong sales experience to join Edgewell Personal Care – a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of over 25 brands (Schick, Banana Boat, Hawaiian Tropic, Wet Ones, Bulldog Skincare for Men, Jack Black, Cremo and recently acquired Field Trip… just to name a few!).

Now, Let’s Get Down to Business

You will be reporting to Greater China Regional VP and will be responsible for developing sales and China growth strategies, tactics and action plans. Successful execution of these strategies is required to achieve the financial targets. Sales director duties will include building up the highly motivated sales team, hitting sales and full P&L targets (Quarterly/Half-Year/Annual), building relationships and understanding customer trends. So, if you have ideas, we want to hear them! The right person for this role will work closely with our Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance and HR teams, so a good communicator is a must. If there’s one thing, you’ll get here at Edgewell, it’s a collaborative group full of likeable, diverse, and nurturing colleagues. They’re an inspiring bunch. While your experience is of course important, we’re all about making useful things joyful, so we love when our prospective candidates are passionate about this too.

Are You Ready to Show Us What You’ve Got?

Ideally you will have tack record as sales director or EC head gained within a consumer goods or commercial business.

In addition, it would be great if you have the following skills and experience

Deep understanding and insights on both online and offline trends, use knowledge of the business model and challenges assumptions to develop new strategies to increase value creation.
Have long-term vision in decision-making, be able to balance short-term and long-term interest, cost and return rather than being limited only to short-term gains and losses.
Sound understanding of retail business, strong network with key players esp. from online channels like Ali, JD and Tiktok, etc. Build and manage a healthy pipeline of customers that want to partner with the company to deliver the strategic goals.
Strong analytical skill, superior presentation skills, both in development of compelling stories and in presenting them at all levels within customer and internal organization.
Build and develop a high performing sales team to achieve revenue growth objectives, Forge a cohesive and effective team by various means such as talent review and planning, rational task allocation, effective incentive and personnel retention.
Proactively anticipate potential problems and be able to formulate a plausible and concrete action plan to prevent or mitigate the impact of the problem, develop systematic solutions to solve more fundamental or more complex issues.
Entrepreneurial spirit with great passion and desire for success in China business growth.
Strong ability to collaborate cross functions to gain consensus and engagement to achieve business goals.
Proven ability to position products against competitors through product, pricing and channel strategy.
Good commend in both written and verbal English.
BA/BS degree or above

What we offer

A ‘can do’ working culture with the following benefits:

Attractive salary, plus medical insurance, hybrid working style, meeting free Fridays, great working and learning environment, casual smart dress code and a great team!

Now Take the Next Step

If you’re looking forward to progressing your career with us, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Please apply online with an up-to-date CV in English and Chinese along with your salary expectations.

Alternatively, feel free to pass onto your colleagues who may be interested. For information about this great company, visit www.edgewell.com

Edgewell is an equal opportunity employer. We do all we can to create a collaborative and diverse global team, where good ideas can thrive, and our colleagues can learn and lead. We prohibit discrimination based on age, color, disability, marital or parental status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or any legally protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We listen deeply and speak directly to create an environment that’s open to difference. We aim to bring joy to not only the products we create and the people we serve, but our colleagues across the globe too.