Sales Director Retail

PSA BDP, a member of the PSA Group, is a leading provider of globally integrated and port-centric supply chain, transportation, and logistics solutions. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide.
PSA BDP serves over 5,000 customers, including some of the world's leading multinational companies within the chemical, retail & consumer, life sciences & pharmaceuticals, and electric vehicle & industrial verticals.
The position is established as a Sales Director, within the Consumer Retail & Fashion Industry. Focusing as an individual contributor in the key geographies as defined by the Global Head of Consumer Retail & Fashion, within the European Markets.
The role encompasses the complete commercial wwnership of a set list of key focus development accounts, supported with a mutually defined list of new logo accounts for the vertical of Consumer Retail & Fashion. Country specific accounts that can drive immediate opportunity to realize new business wins
Be a subject matter expert within the Consumer Retail & Fashion industry space
Existing Book of Business
Build and develop relationships with senior management of the company's existing book of business
Develop and maintain close working relationships with the corporate operational leadership team of the account and the accounts performance
Proactively engage, develop and deploy new business sales opportunities to further develop book of business within the accounts.
Strategically align with Global Leadership to champion the account to support customer satisfaction and continued partnership
Lead System Demonstrator While the company has a team of professional presenters of our IT suite of tools; it is expected that the Vertical Sales Director will become fluent in presenting and holding deeper discussions into PSA BDP's IT Suite of Tools
OPEX Business Implementation Support
Liaise and engage with Regional and Country Management Teams for opportunities to ensure that the opportunities are clearly communicated and shared, throughout the process, ensuring buy-in and understanding of the customers needs across new opportunities
Work with OPEX Implementation team to ensure smooth and proper handover of new business wins and ensure a clearly defined implementation schedule is deployed and business is onboarded
Vertical Strategy Develop a regional specific pipeline that focusses on to the rapid growth and development of the vertical, that is specifically targeting global head offices that are located in the different regions
Meet with customer to drive relationship development identify new business markets for development and deploy that focused development approach to direct and indirect reports.
Strong relationships with Customer Network to leverage introduction of PSA BDP
Experience in serving global customer in retail sector is essential
Strong operations know how
Market leader within Consumer Retail Fashion space inside the Transport and Logistics industry to empower immediate leverage of known network, along with subject matter expertise
True sales Hunter
Ability to understand CFS Warehouse
Self-motivated, flexible and resilient
Good in networking & relationship building
Ability to travel freely globally
Expectation of travel can be upwards of 40%
Degree holder with at least 5 years of operational working experience in global forwarding / logistics company
Minimum 2 years of experience in CFS Warehousing Operation, contract logistics and related matters.
Exposure and knowledge to 3 PL and Order/Freight Management operations
Excellent command of English and local language