Job Duties and Responsibilities
1. Formulate and implement comprehensive sales and marketing strategies for the full range of Advantest’s products, ensuring alignment with established business objectives.
2. Collaborate closely with various Product Business Units to enhance customer support capabilities and to jointly develop effective sales and marketing initiatives, all aimed at meeting targeted business outcomes.
3. Work in partnership with ASP, its subsidiaries, and other relevant divisions to guarantee operational efficiency and effectiveness, thereby achieving high levels of customer satisfaction and business success.
4. Deliver precise and timely sales forecasts as well as detailed market intelligence reports to support management decision-making.
5. Develop robust cost models for each sales transaction, ensuring both accuracy and profitability.
6. Analyze sales data, investigate market trends and developments, and gather market intelligence to identify new business opportunities.
7. Organize and lead presentations on products and services for both customers and internal stakeholders.
8. Negotiate and manage service contracts with customers, ensuring mutual benefit and compliance with company standards.
9. Drive assigned corporate initiatives and projects to successful completion, achieving their intended objectives.
10. Recommend enhancements to existing work processes and methods to boost productivity or reduce operational costs.
11. Build and maintain strong, long-term relationships with key customer contacts, ensuring deep and broad engagement across client organizations.
12. Perform any other comparable duties or responsibilities as assigned by your immediate superior, in support of job enrichment and professional growth.
Job Specifications (Qualifications & Experiences):
• Possess a degree in any discipline, complemented by a minimum of 6–8 years of sales experience within the semiconductor industry. Preference will be given to candidates with proven management or leadership experience.
• Demonstrate a highly motivated, persuasive, and dynamic personality.
• Exhibit the ability to work independently and adapt to ad-hoc scheduling requirements.
• Show strong entrepreneurial spirit, effective leadership, and people management skills. Must be self-driven, result-oriented, and possess a keen awareness of cultural considerations.
• Display a demonstrable ability to communicate, present, and influence key stakeholders at all organizational levels, including executive management.
• Offer excellent listening, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication abilities.
• Provide evidence of a proven track record in acquiring new customers and consistently achieving company sales targets, which will be considered advantageous.
• Be prepared to undertake business travel at short notice.
Skills Required
- Degree in any discipline
- 6-8 years of sales experience within the semiconductor industry
- Management or leadership experience
- Motivated, persuasive, and dynamic personality
- Ability to work independently and adapt to ad-hoc scheduling
- Entrepreneurial spirit, leadership, and people management skills
- Self-driven and results-oriented approach
- Cultural awareness
- Ability to communicate, present, and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels
- Listening, negotiation, and presentation skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Track record of acquiring new customers and achieving sales targets
- Availability for business travel at short notice
What We Do
For over a half-century, Advantest has been designing innovative electronic measuring equipment and semiconductor test systems essential to the development and manufacture of advanced computer and telecommunications products. On April 1, 2012, Advantest completed its integration of Verigy Ltd. Additional Information about Advantest can be found at www.advantest.com.
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