Foreign Trade Expert (Chinese)

QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION

Required Skills:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field,
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in foreign trade,
• Preferably worked in the field of food supplements or healthcare industry,
• Strong written and verbal communication skills both in English and Turkish,
• Second foreign language is considered as an advantage. (Chinese) is a plus,
• Ready to visit customers periodically and sometimes instantly,
• Customer oriented mindset with good negotiation and persuasion skills,
• Self-motivated to follow-up existing customers and develop new business,
• Excellent interpersonal skills, positive attitude and sales oriented,
• Good team worker, result-oriented,
• Ability to work independently and take advanced responsibilities,
• Ability to work well in a team environment,
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment,
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, Good user of MS Office programs.

Job Description:

What Do We Expect From Our New Teammate?

• Observing and analyzing the market, competitors and customers,
• Investigation of target markets and establishment of sales strategies according to market dynamics,
• Gaining new customers in target markets, to make sales promotions for increasing the sales,
• In order to reach targeted positions in the market, to determine new customers and new channels and to assess them,
• Organizing visits to markets and customers he/she is responsible for,
• Setting annual sales targets and identifying demands of countries and customers he/she is responsible for,
• Realization of the sales targets of the relevant customers and dealers in the responsible countries,
• Performing sales activities in the assigned territory to accomplish annual sales objectives,
• Assisting in the development of the sales and marketing plans and strategies to achieve sales targets,
• Preparing periodical sales realization reports,
• Providing market research,
• Regularly (monthly, quarterly, annually) report to Export Manager,
• Transfering necessary up-to-date information to the marketing department for the formation of marketing strategies with regard to its region and, to assist in determining appropriate strategies,
• Ensuring the customers to receive products and services at highest quality by the provision of coordination with the Marketing, Supply Chain, Logistics and Legal departments,
• Ensuring the international financial transactions are processed successfully,
• Assuring export/import process runs smoothly.