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Assistant Manager - Technical Sales

BASF

BASF

IT, Sales & Business Development
Bangkok, Thailand
Posted on Apr 25, 2025

We are a leading chemical company, with the best teams developing intelligent solutions for our customers, and for a sustainable future.

We connect and develop people with diverse talents all over the world. For you, this means a variety of ways to progress.

Not only your performance but also your personality matter to us, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, orientation, and background. At BASF, careers develop from opportunities.



Main responsibilities

Sales development and efficiency, customer intimacy and satisfaction

  • Sustainably achieve sales targets encompassing profit margin volume & sales.
  • Develop and implement sales and marketing plans for the targeted customers.
  • Ensure effective collaboration with Marketing, Technical, and Plant teams.
  • Initiative to explore new business and new application.

Market intelligence

  • Develop and implement measures to continuously track, report and act upon market intelligence such as market trends, competitive activities, demand/capacity development, pricing development, together with Marketing team.
  • Establish and capitalize relationships with key customers and opinion leaders.

Cost-to-serve and working capital

  • Collaborate with Supply Chain, Production, and other colleagues to ensure effective business forecast, payment terms, receivables and credit risk management.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in chemistry or related discipline.
  • 5-10 years of experience in sales, preferably in chemical industry.
  • Well-established communication skills.
  • Demonstrate customer focus when facing complex and ambiguous business situation and environment.
  • Well-organized, work in a rapid pace environment, meet deadlines.
  • Technical Competencies: Nice to have knowledge and expertise in Agrochemical, Construction, Oleochemicals, Bioethanol, Pulp & Paper.

Work location

  • Emporium Office, Bangkok

BASF has been present in Thailand for more than 50 years. The company offers a wide range of products and solutions to support almost all the key industries in the country, including Agricultural Solutions, Intermediates and Process Catalysts, Monomers, Petrochemicals, Coatings, Dispersions and Resins, Performance Chemicals, Care Chemicals, Nutrition and Health, and Performance Materials. BASF in Thailand was established in 1966 and maintains its head office in Bangkok. It operates three production sites in Samutprakarn, Chonburi and Rayong, an Automotive Coatings Technical Competence Center, and a Performance Materials Technical Development Center in Samutprakarn. In 2023, BASF posted sales of €570 million to customers in Thailand and had 625 employees as of the end of the year. Further information is available on www.basf.com/th.